From literature review, several methods wereemployed in fire load surveys in buildings.These are weighing,
inventory, combination of weighing and inventory, questionnaires, and website review. The weighing and inventory
methods were most often used by different surveyors in the past. The NFPA Standard 557 [31] also proposes that a
fire load survey can be conducted by either the weighing or the inventory technique or a combination of them. Each
survey method has its own advantages and disadvantages.