| dc.description.abstract | Owing to the increasing population,
lands have become scarce. Therefore, the prices
of land also have increased. To address this issue
people, tend to buy apartments than have their
plots of land and construct a house. The height
and complexity of these residential buildings may
easily lead to fires and there will be property
losses, injuries, and deaths every year worldwide.
Mostly nowadays people are looking at the fire
safety of all these apartments due to these
incidents. The research aims to identify a better
preventive measure for fire accidents in
residential buildings in SL. An extensive
Literature review was carried out to discover the
current practice in worldwide fire prevention.
This study was conducted using a Questionnaire
survey with apartment building occupants to
identify the fire safety measures currently
practice in the SL context regarding the ICTAD
fire regulations. Simultaneously, statistical data
related to fire incidents in SL for the past few
years and major reasons for SL apartment
building fires were collected from the fire
department. The collected data were analyzed
based on three building height categories. From
the findings, faulty wirings were identified as the
major reason for apartment fires, most of the
occupants are unaware of these regulations and
some of the buildings are also not facilitated with
required fire safety. Finally, it was highly
recommended to conduct demonstration
programs for public awareness and do practice
the fire regulations. | en_US |
