Review: SFPE classic paper review: Interim guide for goal oriented systems approach to building fire safety by Harold E. ‘Bud’ Nelson

Nelson HE Fire safety evaluation systems, U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources. In Fire research and safety: Proceedings of the 6th joint panel meeting of the UJNR. Tokyo: Building Research Institute, 1983, pp. 796-844.

Nelson HE Fireform: a computerized collection of convenient fire safety computations. NBSIR 82-2562, Washington, DC: National Bureau of Standards: 1986.

Nelson HE FPETOOL: Fire protection engineering tools for hazard estimation. NISTIR 4380 , Gaithersburg, MD, USA: National Institute of Standards and Technology, 1990.

Cooper LY and Nelson HE Life safety through designed safe egress - a framework for research, development and implementation. U.S./Japan Government Cooperative Program on Natural Resources . In Fire Research and Safety: Proceedings of the 6th Joint Panel Meeting of the UJNR. Tokyo: Building Research Institute, 1983, pp. 764-795.

The systems approach to fire protection - a compilation of articles from Fire Journal and Fire Technology. NFPA Special Publications Number SPP-36, Boston: National Fire Protection Association, 1976.

Watts J. The goal-oriented systems approach. NBS-GCR-77-103, Washington, DC: National Bureau of Standards, 1977.

Watts J. A theoretical rationalization of goal-oriented systems approach to building fire safety. NBS-GCR-79-163, Washington, DC: National Bureau of Standards, 1979.

Rashbash D. , Ramachandran G. , Kandola B. , Watts J. and Law M. Evaluation of fire safety. New York: John Wiley & Sons, Ltd, 2004.

GSA. Proceedings of the international conference on fire safety in high-rise buildings. Washington, DC: General Services Administration, 1974.

GSA 5920.9. Building fire safety criteria: Appendix D, Interim guide for goal-oriented systems approach to building fire safety, Revised 14 February 1975. Washington, DC: General Services Administration , 1975.

Nelson HE Directions to improve application of a systems approach to fire protection requirements for buildings, SFPE TR 77-8, Boston: Society of Fire Protection Engineers, 1977 .

Nfpa 550. Guide to the fire safety concepts tree. Quincy, MA USA: National Fire Protection Association, 1986 .

Fitzgerald RW An engineering method for building fire safety analysis. Fire Safety Journal 1985; Vol. 9: 233-243.

Fitzgerald RW Building fire performance analysis. Chichester, England: John Wiley and Sons , 2004.

SFPE engineering guide to performance-based fire protection analysis and design of buildings. Bethesda, USA: Society of Fire Protection Engineers and Quincy, MA USA: National Fire Protection Association, 2000.

Nelson HE. (ed.), Proceedings of the international conference on fire safety in high-rise public buildings at Airlie House. Washington, DC: General Services Administration, 1971.

Nelson HE. (ed.), Proceedings of the reconvened international conference on fire safety in high rise buildings. Washington, DC: General Services Administration, October 5, 1971.