To select appropriate fire protection options for buildings during their design stage, economic, safety, environmental, and societal criteria need to be accounted for. The divergent and sometimes conflictual desires from different fire design stakeholders involved in the process present a multicriteria decision problem. Design decision criteria and fire protection options can be interdependent, and so there is a need to manage these desires with an advanced decision analysis technique, thereby reducing uncertainties in the complex decision-making process. The aim of this paper is to use the weighted/geometric mean method-analytic network process (W/GMM-ANP) to balance the opinions of fire design stakeholders extracted from 42 structured stakeholder interviews on selecting the most suitable fire protection option for buildings constructed of steel frames. Different categories of interdependent decision elements were developed from 22 design decision criteria and 5 proposed fire protection options to produce a network of decision clusters for multicriteria decision analysis. In the synthesis and ranking of fire protection options, the W/GMM-ANP accounted for the multiple interdependencies of weighted and unweighted stakeholder desires and managed the complexity of the decision-making problem. The technique is proposed for approaching suitable group decisions in structural fire design of steel-framed buildings as well as other performance-based engineering decision making that may involve multidisciplinary stakeholders.

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组分析网络过程，用于平衡利益相关者对钢结构建筑防火的看法

为了在建筑物的设计阶段为建筑物选择适当的防火选项，必须考虑经济，安全，环境和社会标准。来自参与该过程的不同消防设计利益相关者的不同，有时甚至是冲突的愿望提出了一个多准则决策问题。设计决策标准和防火选项可能是相互依赖的，因此需要使用先进的决策分析技术来管理这些需求，从而减少复杂决策过程中的不确定性。本文的目的是使用加权/几何平均法-分析网络过程（W / GMM-ANP）来平衡从42个结构化利益相关者访谈中提取的消防设计利益相关者的意见，以选择最合适的建筑物防火方案钢框架。从22个设计决策标准和5个提议的防火选项中开发了不同类别的相互依赖的决策元素，以生成用于多标准决策分析的决策集群网络。在消防方案的综合和排名中，W / GMM-ANP解决了加权和未加权利益相关者需求的多种相互依存关系，并管理了决策问题的复杂性。