Fire Protection Engineering for Structural Engineers

120 Pages·2017·5.25 MB·English

Fire Protection Engineering
for Structural Engineers
DVASE Presentation
PRESENTED BY: ROGER RUDY & TAYLOR WRIGHT
December 6, 2017
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FPE & Structural Engineers
Agenda:
• Fire Protection Engineering
• Determination of Construction Type
• Required Rating of Building Elements
– Structural Frame, Floor construction, Bearing Walls, Roofs
• UL Assemblies
– Restrained vs. Unrestrained
– Load Restricted or Non Load Restricted
– Member substitution
– SFRM Thickness Adjustment
– Restrained Beam-only substitutions
• Non Prescriptive Approaches
• Fire Walls and Party Walls
– Requirements
– Types
• Conclusions
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Fire Protection Engineering
• What is it?
• What is the role of a Fire Protection Engineer?
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WHAT IS FIRE PROTECTION ENGINEERING?
The application of Science and Engineering principles to
protect people and their environment from the harmful
and destructive effects of fire and smoke and includes:
• Analysis of Fire Hazards
• Mitigation of fire damage by proper design, construction, arrangement, and use of
buildings, materials, structures, industrial processes, and transportation systems
• The design, installation and maintenance of fire detection and suppression and
communication systems
• Post-fire investigation and analysis
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WHAT IS THE ROLE OF A FIRE PROTECTION
ENGINEER?
To design systems that, taken individually, could be
considered:
• Mechanical (fire sprinklers, fire-fighter’s standpipe, smoke control)
• Electrical (fire alarm)
• Architectural (means of egress design)
• Structural (fire resistance design)
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Determination of Construction Type
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Construction Type
Construction type prescribes minimum required protection of
building attributes and may prohibit use of combustible elements
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Construction Type
• Required minimum Construction Type is
based on Occupancy and planned building
height / area
• In general the larger the building of a
given Occupancy the more fire-resistive
construction is required
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Construction Type
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Construction Type
IBC Table 504.3 – Height in Feet
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