Passive fire safety precautions for pre-school education buildings

Pre-school education covers the education of children aged 3 years, 4 years and 5 years who are not in compulsory primary education. It is a period of education that provides children's physical, mental, emotional and social development and prepares them for primary school. Preschool education buildings require more caution than other types of school due to their users. Fire safety is one of the most critical issues in the safety of buildings. Turkey fire legislation has no specific provision regarding to pre-school education buildings. However, these buildings'users which are in need of the support of others need to be detailed in the legislation. The aim of the thesis is; to contribute to the realization of fire safety measures in preschool education buildings. To identify the deficiencies in the legislation through the projects used in the study and to revise the issue of building more safe pre-school education buildings. Within the scope of the thesis, the pre-school education buildings were examined in the context of passive fire safety measures, and the performance criteria for the prevention of fire were created by utilizing national and international legislation and two projects selected from the Ministry of National Education type pre-school education projects were evaluated according to these performance criteria. In the light of this assessment, concluded that; pre-school education buildings in Turkey fire regulations; location of the building, number of floors, location of the classrooms in the building, compartment areas, building materials, exit numbers, escape route widths, classroom door directions, escape windows, architectural conditions that require the detection and warning system and the architectural conditions that require the sprinkler system should be reviewed and a revision should be done.