Fire Safety Assessment of High-Rise Residential Buildings in Malaysia

Lim, Yi Wen (2022) Fire Safety Assessment of High-Rise Residential Buildings in Malaysia. Final Year Project (Bachelor), Tunku Abdul Rahman University College.

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Abstract

As the population growing in Malaysia, the number of high-rise residential buildings constructed is increasingly more rapidly to overcome the increase of population. During a long period, buildings are subjected to several natural phenomenon and manmade hazards such as fire and explosion. Therefore, fire safety plays a pivotal role for the survival of human beings and protection of properties in high-rise residential buildings. Despite the numerous ways of fire safety assessment, there are several limitations of current fire safety measures such as poor performance and functional reliability as well as high cost of installation and maintenance. Not only that, human behaviour under a situation of fire is also one of the issues. Therefore, this research aims to provide both prevention and management of fire hazard. The objectives of this research are to determine the awareness of fire safety measures, the limitations of current fire safety measures and the important strategies for improving fire safety among high-rise residential buildings in Malaysia. In order to achieve the research objectives, literature review and questionnaire survey are conducted; whereby 112 responses from the occupants of high-rise residential buildings in Malaysia had been obtained through online questionnaire survey. With the aid of Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS), descriptive and inferential analysis such as One-Way ANOVA, Independent Samples T-Test and multiple regression were conducted to achieve the research objectives. The result revealed that the awareness of fire safety measures among occupants are higher than average to some extent; and the important strategies do contribute a statistically significant amount of variance in the total awareness of fire safety measures whereas the limitations of current fire safety do not. Ultimately, these findings have contributed to fill the knowledge gap and raise the awareness of fire safety measures among the occupants of high-rise residential buildings in Malaysia.