Fire protection has three major
goals:
- Life safety (minimum standard in fire and building codes)
- Property protection (typically an insurance requirement, or a regulatory requirement where the protection of building components is necessary to enable life safety)
- Continuity of operations (typically an insurance requirement or an item of self-motivation for building owners - not a regulatory issue). Interruption of operations due to fire damage can be very costly. For instance, a nuclear reactor may cost about one million US dollars per day, if it is not making power that is being sold.
