The book aims to impart technical understanding on life and fire safety to aid planning and design of building projects. It emphasized upon the importance of integrating fire safety considerations together with the functional planning and design configuration during project development phase. It imparts theoretical insight that enables building professionals to ensure the compliance of necessary fire protection measures required in the built environment. The issues of life and fire safety can best resolved during planning and design stages. Safety being the underlined key objective of buildings, more so in complex contemporary context, understanding of life and fire safety has a potential to enhance inherent safety considerably. Effectives of fire safety can be ensured only when the solutions are functionally relevant. Thus, this book provides a comprehensive appraisal for building professionals who would further engage with domain‐specific fire engineers meaningfully.

The book would be a useful guide for building professionals, such as architects, consulting engineers, project managers, real estate professionals and facility managers. It should also serve as a reference text book for students of architecture, engineering and related domains.