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Fire-Fighting Services IN High Rise Buildings
Fire-Fighting Services IN High Rise Buildings
SERVICES
IN
HIGH RISE BUILDINGS
Fire fighters goals are to save life property and
environment
Fire fighters provide solutions for your fire protection
needs.
Fire safety planning should be based on knowledge of
general fire behavior, fire behavior in buildings and
building behavior under fire conditions.
Structural fire resistance is a prerequisite to other
considerations of occupant fire safety.
Building contents, their selection and organization,
must be recognized as a key influence on fire safety
in buildings
Active and passive precautions must be taken to
satisfy the requirement of safety.
ACTIVE PRECAUTIONS
Those systems that are automatically deployed in the
event of fire .
this include smoke and fire alarm systems, sprinkler
systems, water spray extinguisher plant, co2
extinguishing installations, powder and foam
extinguishing plant and automatic smoke and heat
venting system.
PASSIVE PRECAUTIONS
They are the construction solutions in the building
and its components.
Passive precautions relates mainly to minimum
structural sections, casings and coatings. In addition
to these other important measures are the layouts of
rising mains installation of fire doors and windows.
When building height rise above 15 m – it
requires special high rise fire safety system to
protect modern structure from the risks .
these facilities require high rise alarm
system with special capabilities such as
Emergency voice paging
fire fighters telephones
and other special fire protection systems.
1. HIGH RISE FIRE SAFETY FIRE
ALARM SYSTEM
The control panel supervises elevator recall, activates
smoke control system, emergency generators, and building
fire pumps.
It is the ideal high rise fire safety system for large buildings
2. HIGH RISE EMERGENCY
VOICE PAGING
With the high rise building comes the need for
emergency paging system
We have system for single, dual or triple channel
voice, with multiple message capable of
simultaneous transmission to different zones of
the building.
3. FIRE FIGHTER TELEPHONE
SYSTEM
In a high rise fire fighter telephone system
is a necessity.
Emergency telephone stations are
positioned at every floor throughout the
building to enable fire department to
communicate freely in their fire fighting
efforts.
The emergency phone system provides
two-way communication through-out the
entire facility
4. FIRE EXTINGUISHERS
Fire extinguishers provides the
first line defense against fire
Long before the temperature
becomes sufficiently high to
activate, the fire extinguisher
can provide rapid fire
suppression before combustion
reaches life threatening levels
5. HIGH RISE FIRE SPRINKLER
SYSTEM
Fire sprinkler system provides the primary building
structural fire protection .
In the event of fire in the building heat from
combustion melts the fusible elements in the fire
sprinkler heat releasing water on to the surface of fire.
Minimum spacing = 1.5 m, maximum as per the
function of the area the sprinkler is protecting.
6. EMERGENCY LIGHTS
Emergency lights enables
building occupants to safely escape
the building in the event of a power
failure. Equipped with back up
batteries capable of powering exit
and emergency lights for more than
an hour, emergency lights become a
critical element of a high rise safety
system in the event of a power
failure.
7. Fire Hose and Standpipes
High rise buildings usually have fire
hose and reel stations positioned
throughout the facility. Fire hose must be
tested at periodic intervals to meet
current fire codes.
8.Fire hydrant : Is an active fire
protection measure
Hydrant system is a mechanism where
water is pumped, tapped off and released
in the form of a jet through a nozzle to
extinguish fire.
Its a type of Hydrant system that is
extensively in high rise buildings where
special outlets are provided on each
floor.
. 9. Foam Based System