Combined Fire Safety and Comfort Study Using Moment Independent and Variance Based Method

In tropical context and particularly in Reunion Island, promoting passive design is compulsory, but cannot be achieved without considering fire safety. This article aims at evaluating the interactions that exist between fire safety and thermal comfortin buildings, using variance based and moment independent methods. Two stategies are proposed: a first one, dissociated, where fire safety assessment and thermal comfortare evaluated separately and a second combining both considerations. Input parameters that influence the most the selected output indices are investigated for each strategy. A normalized index combining thermal comfortand fire safety is suggested introducing a new methodology. Difference between the two strategies is highlighted.