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Smoke management is the intentional control or containment of smoke resulting from a fire in a building or structure.

Goals
Smoke managment can be accomplished :
 * Life safety (minimum standard in fire and building codes)
 * Property protection (typically an insurance requirement, or a regulatory requirement where the protection of building components is necessary to enable life safety)
 * Continuity of operations (typically an insurance requirement or an item of self-motivation for building owners - not a regulatory issue). Interruption of operations due to fire damage can be very costly. For instance, a nuclear reactor may cost about one million US dollars per day, if it is not making power that is being sold.

Components
Fire protection, in land-based buildings, offshore construction or onboard ships, is typically achieved via three means: