Project FAIL-SAFE, under the direction of the National Association of State Fire Marshals Fire Research & Education Foundation, was a project started to examine the value of safety layering in buildings in a multi-step, multi-year study. In the context of building/fire safety and community resiliency, this project investigated the value of safety layering, or reliability enhancement, in a building that has been impacted by a natural or man-made disaster and has been subjected to a fire due to the disaster. The study was conducted to help determine whether a sprinklered building, including all trade-offs, can perform its pre-incident function without successful sprinkler operation, even if there was no building collapse. FSNA, working in conjunction with the National Association of State Fire Marshals (NASFM), was instrumental in the development of the details of Project FAIL-SAFE.

Project FAIL-SAFE: An Overview  | Passive/Active Trade-off Risk Evaluation Analysis

Literature Review of Sprinkler Trade-offs (WPI) | Fire Modeling Results (WPI)