This report presents findings on fire prevention in historical buildings. Several areas of fire protection have been touched on in the report. These focus areas deal with prevention, retrofitting, past fires and legislation dealing with fire prevention. A case study was performed on the Massachusetts Military Archive and Museum in Worcester, Massachusetts. The study provides possibilities that present several alterations and upgrades to improve the building against fire.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Tyburski, Michael G.
• Colby, Eric Paul
• Allanbrook, Wesley Clement
• Davy, Matthew William

Subject

• Security
• Culture
• Infrastructure

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 99C012I

Keyword

• Fire protection engineering
• Fire prevention

Advisor

• Barnett, Jonathan R.

Year

• 1999

Date created

• 1999-01-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright