Overview
This seminar has been designed to give you an in depth knowledge of how sprinklers have an impact on the design of a building. Firstly, i will go through some of the myths commonly though about sprinklers. I will discuss how sprinklers maintain tenability in buildings and then relate This to the trade offs that ADB and BS9999 allows in the design of buildings. Sprinklers play a major role in fire safety and their installation can result in safer and more cost effective designed buildings.

This course will cover the following topics

•Myths about firefighters
•Myths about sprinklers
•Water
•Cost of system
•Sprinklers and glazed partitions
•Trade off in design
•Reliability
•Tenability
•Sprinklers in USA
•Scottsdale
•Sprinklers in ADB
•Sprinklers in residential care homes
•Sprinklers in flats

•Fire Service Access
•BS9999 Fire Safety in Design
•Effects of sprinklers on fire growth
•Variation of risk profile
•Impact on design requirements
•Travel distances
•Exit width
•Vertical escape
•Fire resistance of structure
•Sprinklers and boundary distances
•BS9991
•Sprinklers and sustainability
•World view
•Sprinkler systems – types

Duration: 1 hour Cost: £20