Savvy fire and life safety designers advocate for the right systems for each large indoor venue, while respecting the sometimes conflicting goals and demands of others involved in the decision.
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ACCESS DENIED: Finding a Safe Way Out of Danger
Inmates will abuse any building component within reach. So how do you design a system to detect and protect while keeping it safe, too?
THE EXTREMES: Hot Strategies for Cold Conditions
Environments with high airflow or excessive temperatures, such as freezer or cold-storage warehouses, require robust and flexible fire protection solutions. These extreme environments present unique fire detection and suppression challenges that do not follow standard fire and life safety design. For example, while extremely cold, these warehouses can have such dry atmospheres that fire can spread faster than normal. As a result, each scenario needs to be evaluated to provide the necessary protection. Because there is no one-size-fits-all fire and life safety solution, familiarity with all technologies associated with fire detection, notification and suppression are important for designing a dependable and suitable system.
Sophisticated & Strategic: Fire and Life Safety in Mission-Critical Applications
To protect information assets, a fire protection strategy must incorporate specific emergency identification and suppression alongside detection.
Total Fire Detection
Different applications call for different fire and life safety technologies. See how System Sensor detection products cover the bases.
Aspiration Detection: Positioned to Be More Flexible
Technology improvements, plus the installation advantages for hard-to-reach or dangerous areas, are widening the market scope for aspiration detection.
Aspiration Detection: When Early Isn’t Soon Enough
Enhancing fire and life safety with the use of very early warning fire detection strengthens protection by enabling proactive response to a fire threat at the earliest possible stage.
Law Requires ‘Timely Warnings’ on Campus
The Virginia Tech tragedy served as a wake-up call for most U.S. campuses. In August 2008, the government provided support in terms of a new public law: the College Opportunity and Affordability Act of 2008, an amendment to the Higher Education Act of 1965, which is required of schools that receive federal funds.
Got Intelligibility? Be Heard and Understood
Emergency communications systems have amplified the need for effective voice communications systems. NFPA 72-2010 formally addresses measuring voice intelligibility to ensure what is said is heard properly.
Phoenix Children’s Hospital: Anatomy of a Fire System Project
Detection Logic, a UTC Fire & Security Company of Phoenix, Arizona, rose to the challenge to win the design and installation of the fire system job for the massive expansion and renovation of Phoenix Children’s Hospital.