Fire & Life Safety Engineering Design
The key to optimum response of an installed system, depends largely on the conceptual and physical design of the fire & life safety system. A well calculated and practically designed system in an occupancy, goes a long way in providing that extra security to its occupants and the property itself. Hence, it is very important that the engineering design considerations for fire protection of a structure is envisaged at a very early stage. The in-depth knowledge and understanding of fire codes and standard allows Responders to offer accurate and cost-effective fire and life safety design solutions to its clients.
Supply and provision of water for fire fighting can be critical to fire protection requirement of any building. Responders have the expertise to design cost effective water base suppression system which comply with the codes and standards. Whether it is automatic sprinkler, stand pipe hose or fire pumps, Responders can provide any level of design service you require, from the development of design concepts and preparation of shop quality design drawings, to conducting site inspections during the systems installation. We can assess your needs and design a system appropriate to your facility, and can also prepare alternative solutions to allow for custom installation methodologies of these systems to address unique building features.
One of the first lines of occupant protection is a properly designed fire detection and manual alarm system. As a leading subject matter expert who actively conversant with latest fire alarm Codes and Standards, we keep abreast of the most current requirements and emerging technologies to design effective and compliant fire alarm systems.
We have designed systems for new and existing facilities of all sizes. We can include the latest advanced features including improved detection, intelligible notification, and easily maintainable system design. The fire alarm system can include control of building access systems, elevator systems, and building safety features such as smoke exhaust and emergency pressurization.
At times, implementation of water base suppression mechanisms possesses potential challenges in buildings mainly due to the lack of practical circumstances due to which availability of water for fire suppression cannot be made available. Further, areas with special hazards also requires suppression mechanism where water cannot be used as a suppression extinguishing medium. Responders have the expertise to come out with innovative alternate suppression design solutions involving gas-based suppression and an alternate means of suppression in these challenging scenarios.
Whether CO2, FM-200 or Halon based, we are adept in designing robust gas base suppression system which efficiently mitigates impending fire risk in special hazard areas. Responders uses state of art software systems to undertake the suppression required in special hazard areas.
One of the major issues facing building safety including its occupants is the control of smoke and its development during fire situations. An efficient and robust smoke control design goes a long way in preparing a buildings fire protection system to proactively respond to such a scenario. Fire modelling is a method of virtually recreating the scenarios that may occur in the event of a fire. Using computer modelling software, we can calculate the effects of a fire at any given period of time.
Whether it’s predicting smoke layers, the response of combustible products to heat, or the failure threshold of a sprinkler system, fire modelling estimates how a fire might impact both your building and its occupants. Once fire modelling data is collected, we can determine the necessary life safety requirements to offset the negative foreseeable outcomes of a given fire scenario.