Fire Safety Systems

Fire Safety Systems

ABN 27 063 535 919

Engineered Fire & Safety Solutions Pty Ltd

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Fire Safety Systems is a generic term used to describe any number of installations that provide fire safety, or increase it, in buildings.

These systems can be of an active, or passive design, or fire fighting systems used by occupants or fire-fighters, and fire response and plans enacted by building occupants that can, either in combination with other systems, or alone, increase the fire safety afforded to occupants of a building should fire occur.

Active systems are those that “do something” if fire occurs. Systems such as fire sprinklers, gas flooding, fire detection, fire alarm and occupant warning fall into the active category due to their ability to either automatically apply extinguishant to a fire or to raise an alarm and warn occupants of incipient fire.

Passive systems are those that provide a restraint on smoke and fire spread, providing barriers due to their physical characteristics and location to prevent fire and smoke spread. Such systems as fire and smoke stop barriers, fire resiting glazing, smoke curtains/fins and fire resisting fillers fit into the passive fire protection category.

Fire fighting systems are those that need to be used by occupants or responding firefighters to extinguish or retard a fire. Such systems as fire hose reels, fire hydrants, dry risers, or portable fire extinguishers fit into this category.

Fire Response and Management Plans also form a part of the fire safety system family, as these plans are highly effective in predetermining response to a situation and initiation of evacuation processes. Other emergency response plans, such as hazard identification and abatement, management in use plans and other specific emergency response plans for high hazard areas are an adjunct to the Fire Safety Systems invoked in a building.

Astute use of the many various combination of fire safety system available in the modern era allow Fire Safety Engineers to provide the levels of fire safety to buildings and their occupants to allow alternative fire safety solutions to be a valid part of modern performance building design.

To enable effective alternative fire safety solutions to be evolved for a building, Fire Safety Engineers MUST have an in depth understanding of fire safety systems and their underlying concepts and design. If the depth of knowledge and underlying design is not present with the Fire safety engineer the full potential of fire safety systems may not be realised in the completed building, thus causing possible unnecessary cost of construction.

Engineered Fire & Safety engineers have backgrounds in fire fighting, fire protection design, emergency planning, emergency response, human response in fire, fire protection system design, fire system installation, hazard identification and management and many other facets of fire safety systems.

Engineered Fire & Safety have a design capacity for most wet and dry fire protection systems, water supply, pumping and hydraulic analysis, along with an ability to prepare specifications and oversee tendering of fire safety systems for all ranges of project size.

Engineered Fire & Safety has the capacity to provide the following fire safety system services:

■ Portable fire extinguisher, type and location assessment;

■ Fire hose reel system design, specification and implementation;

■ Fire hydrant, wet and dry risers system design, specification and implementation;

■ Automatic fire sprinkler and drencher systems design, specification and implementation;

■ Water spray deluge system design, specification and implementation;

■ Fire main and water supply assessment design, specification and implementation;

■ Water storage requirements assessment design, specification and implementation;

■ Gas flooding systems needs analysis, specification and implementation;

■ High pressure water mist systems needs analysis, specification and implementation;

■ Conventional and addressable fire detection system design, specification and implementation;

■ Occupant warning and communications system design, specification and implementation;

■ Exit and emergency lighting system design, specification and implementation;

■ Natural smoke and heat release system specification and implementation;

■ Mechanical smoke venting system specification and implementation;

■ Passive fire protection systems needs analysis, specification and implementation;

■ Assessment of new innovation fire safety systems;

■ Fire resistance of materials of construction analysis;

■ Ad hoc fire testing and reports for specific use applications;

■ Emergency planning needs analysis, preparation, implementation, exercises and review;

■ Hazard assessment and report, reduction plans and implementation assistance;

■ Risk and hazard analysis, reduction plans and implementation;

■ Fire fighting needs analysis, training and practical exercises.

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