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In the past, the government had tried to increase apartment buildings to solve shortage of residence and it has contributed to
the improvement of residential standard. These apartment buildings have been getting higher frequency of fire comparing to
other residential types, but don't get much people's attention on this since number of the residents of each household is quite
small and the number of deaths is not that many. Recently, however, this problem is getting very serious as apartment
building is our representative residential type.
Many of foreign country have been introducing performance based fire protection design nowadays, and they put a lot of
effort to take more concrete and specific precautions against fire. Especially, there has been a lot of study working on fire load
because the fire load of each room is a very important factor to determine fire safety and structural refractory, which is also
important as a basic study of Performance Based Fire Protection Design. In spite of this global trend, however, it has been put
off to introduce this system in Korea. Therefore, the aim of this study is a survey of fire load in apartment buildings as
preceding study of introducing the Performance Based Fire Protection Design.