Ever-increasing population and demand of built-up spaces have constrained our society to go for compact and multi-storeyed building premises. In metropolitan cities, there was no choice for town planners but to go for vertical expansion rather than br>horizontal the NET result was construction of thousands of multi-storeyed complexes which needed proper fire security arrangements. Legislation exists at different levels incorporating different type of restrictions to the designers and occupiers of the building. A vast amount of guidelines exists but not known to everybody engaged in the field. This book is designed to cover this gap and will be a right choice in this direction. It comprehensively deals not only with the fundamentals of Fire engineering appendices different building bye-laws and relevant abstracts from BIS and National building codes, nfpa, lpa, tac, etc. But reviews structural safety, and provides sufficient multi-disciplinary guidelines for selecting proper gadgets for complete fire safety of building complexes. This book will appeal to architects, engineers, practitioners and all stakeholders who are involved in promoting, designing, constructing or operating buildings. This will include building owners and clients as well as facilities managers and those who design and construct buildings. It will also serve as a reference text for students in architecture, building environmental Engineering and other courses concerned with the built environment. Who should study this book: architects, town planners, consultants, contractors, suppliers, building project managers, Civil and mechanical/electrical Engineers, energy managers/auditors, building owners, facility engineers/managers, estate managers and developers, faculty and students in construction management.About the AuthorShri V K Jain obtained degree in Electrical Engineering in 1966 from Maulana Azad College of Technology (MACT), Bhopal. He did M. Tech. in 1968 from MACT and HEL (Now Bharat Heavy Electricals) Bhopal in Design and Production of Heavy Electrical Equipments, an Industry Oriented course run under the sponsorship of UNESCO under Vikram University, Ujjain in 1968. He was attached to Electronics Application Engineering Department of BHEL. He presented his thesis for Masters degree at one of the premier institution of India (Indian Institute of Technology) IIT Kanpur. He personally prepared digital computer program in FORTRAN IV as early as in year 1968 at IIT Kanpur and compiled it on IBM 7044 Main Frame Computer. He joined CPWD as Electrical Engineer on 20.5.1968 on the basis of All India Competitive Examination for Central Electrical Engineering Services (Now known as IES) through Union Public Service Commission of India and served CPWD for 35 years. Shri V K Jain has abundant experience in designing of all MEP services for a great variety of buildings while working in CPWD at places like Mumbai, Nagpur, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Hoshangabad, Bhopal, Indore, New Delhi, Amritsar etc. After retirement he worked with M/s C P Kukreja as Project Co-ordinator for the Construction Project of Vardhaman Mahavir Medical College, Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi. He designed Electrical/Electronic, and BMS services in the Delhi s most intelligent CAG Building at Deen Dayal Upadhyay Marg, New Delhi. This CPWD project included on Fire Fighting and Wet Riser System, Intelligent and Addressable Fire Detection and Alarm System of India Today Mall, Ludhiana. In the year 2007 he joined as Chief Consultant Engineer with M/s Hospitech Management Consultant Pvt. Limited WTC, New Delhi and engaged in designing most modern MEP services including fire fighting and alarm sytsems and IBMS in premier medical colleges and big hospital systems including AIIMS at Raipur and Patna and 20 more hospital and medical college projects distributed all over India in places like Durg, Jorhat, Varanasi, Srinagar, New Delhi, Sagar, Jagdalpur, Raigarh, Jodhpur, Bhubn