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Henrik Tehler

Henrik Tehler

Professor

Henrik Tehler

Decision Analysis in Fire Safety Engineering - Analysing Investments in Fire Safety

Författare

  • Henrik Tehler

Summary, in English

The application of decision analytical methods to the evaluation of investments in fire safety was investigated, particularly with the aim of being able to suggest a method for analysing a specific investment in fire safety for a specific factory. Attention was directed above all at the handling of cases of large epistemic uncertainty regarding both probabilities and utilities, Bayesian decision theory serving as a basis for the development of the method. Two extensions of the decision rule used in Bayesian decision theory (the principle of maximising expected utility) were suggested for use in the present context. Together with a model for calculating the expected utility of a specific investment, they provide an evaluatory framework for the analysis of investments in fire safety. The major contributions of the thesis to the area of decision analysis within fire safety engineering are that it provides a better understanding of the use of different decision analytical approaches in a context such as the present one, that it highlights problems of evaluation when large epistemic uncertainties are present, that it suggests a solution for use in such a case, and that it suggests a way in which the reduction in risk can be evaluated in terms of monetary value.

Avdelning/ar

  • Avdelningen för Brandteknik
  • Avdelningen för Riskhantering och Samhällssäkerhet

Publiceringsår

2003

Språk

Engelska

Dokumenttyp

Doktorsavhandling

Förlag

Department of Fire Safety Engineering and Systems Safety, Lund University

Ämne

  • Building Technologies
  • Other Civil Engineering

Nyckelord

  • Safety technology
  • Byggnadsteknik
  • Building construction
  • investment appraisal
  • epistemic uncertainties
  • fire safety
  • Decision analysis
  • risk analysis
  • Säkerhetsteknik

Aktiv

Published

Handledare

  • [unknown] [unknown]

Försvarsdatum

25 september 2003

Försvarstid

13:15

Försvarsplats

Lecture hall: V:A, V-building, John Ericssons väg 1, Lund Institute of Technology

Opponent

  • Peter Friis Hansen (Professor)