The purpose of this project was to develop a set of common construction materials for the Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica (CFIA) of San Jose, Costa Rica to help professionals in the construction sector abide by the country’s fire regulations and NFPA codes through the implementation of a database and the calculation of a cost analysis. We accomplished these by identifying both UL-compliant and non-compliant products and studying the NFPA 101 Life Safety Code. The cost analysis determined that compliant materials are 55% more expensive than non-compliant materials. This project also resulted in recommendations for making compliant materials more widely used through continued use and refinement of our database.

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Creator

• Maldonado, Nathan P.
• Arthur, William K.
• Belanger, Kylie
• Smith, Delia G.

Subject

• Industry
• Infrastructure
• Health
• Project-Based Learning
• Innovation

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• 5926
• E-project-031721-202729

Keyword

• Fire Protection
• NFPA
• Costa Rica
• Database
• CFIA
• Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica

Advisor

• Rao, Pratap M.
• Chiarelli, James A.

Year

• 2021

Center

• San Jose, Costa Rica Project Center - IQP

Sponsor

• Colegio Federado de Ingenieros y de Arquitectos de Costa Rica

UN Sustainable Development Goals

• 9 - Industry, Innovation and Infrastructure

Date created

• 2021-03-17

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright

Last modified

• 2021-05-03