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Matthew Ryan The Fire Su Surgery Ltd Fire Safety Engineering: Firefighting provisions Overview Fire strategies and the importance of firefighting provisions The fire service as a stakeholder Key firefighting provisions CIBSE

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Matthew Ryan The Fire Su Surgery Ltd

Fire Safety Engineering: Firefighting provisions

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Overview

  • Fire strategies and the importance of firefighting provisions
  • The fire service as a stakeholder
  • Key firefighting provisions
  • CIBSE Guide E approaches (Chapter 13)
  • Operational building management

(Will try to keep in the context of building services, and not too ‘London-centric’)

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Fire strategies and importance of firefighting provisions

  • Definition; BS7974: 2019
  • Formal fire strategy document; historically

performance based design, now expected for most buildings (apart from the simplest)

  • PAS911: 2007 – how to write
  • B1 to B5 (including Regulation 7) of the

Building Regulations 2010

  • B5 Access and facilities for the fire service
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Fire strategies and importance of firefighting provisions

  • Functional requirement B5
  • Primarily life safety related; increasing property

protection and business continuity objectives for some sectors.

  • Four key areas:
  • External fire service vehicle access
  • Access into and within the building to:

search for and rescue people fight fire

  • Provision of internal firefighting facilities for

firefighters to complete their tasks

  • Ventilation of heat and smoke from a fire in

a basement

Excerpts from Approved Document B Volume 2 (2019); https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/system/uploads/attachment_data/file/832633/Approve d_Document_B__fire_safety__volume_2_-_2019_edition.pdf

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The fire service as a stakeholder

  • Fire safety design process (the fire strategy)
  • Design objectives, specific to each project
  • Various stakeholders; fire service should always be considered

as one of these. M&E also a key stakeholder

  • Fire service needs/ views/ opinions? Geographical differences?
  • Not just an ‘approver’; they interact with the building and its

systems when there is a fire

  • Need for early consultation with the local fire and rescue

service?

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Key firefighting provisions (not exhaustive!)

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CIBSE Guide E approaches

  • Collation of ‘code compliant’ benchmark design guidance

references for key firefighting provisions and related building services items

  • References to relevant related ‘progressive’ guidance (e.g.

BS8899: 2016 for lifts for use in the event of fire)

  • Consideration of emerging technologies/ equipment
  • Consideration of new fire strategy concepts (e.g. refuge

floors for super high rise buildings)

  • Environmental considerations (firefighting related)

Bronto Skylift F295HLA Burj Khalifa, Dubai

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CIBSE Guide E approaches – fire engineering

  • Acknowledgement of firefighter PPE limitations (for design

purposes)

  • Potential enhancements to fire service access (intelligent

fire detection/ alarm/ notification, twin landing valves for fire mains, etc)

  • Appreciation of typical fire service operational procedures
  • Typical firefighting shaft design variations
  • Firefighting timelines
  • Building services play a central role to all
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CIBSE Guide E approaches – an example

  • Engagement with local fire and

rescue service

  • Fire service vehicle access
  • Firefighting water supplies
  • Dry horizontal fire main
  • Automatic suppression

systems

  • Fire detection and alarms
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Operational building management

  • All fire safety systems: knowing what you have, how it works, and when/ how to

test and maintain it

  • Firefighting facilities sometimes overlooked
  • Complex buildings/ systems – ‘in house’ expertise
  • CIBSE Guide E Chapter 14 – management and maintenance
  • Importance of fire strategy, Regulation 38 information, etc
  • Specialist building services support where appropriate
  • Planning for a fire incident
  • Contingency planning for systems (spares, etc)
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Thank you for listening