Life Safety and Security for Buildings

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Life Safety and Security for Buildings

Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef King Abdulaziz University, Jeddah, KSA

Assiut University, Assiut, Egypt

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Table of Contents 1. Taxonomy of Buildings in view of Life Safety Considerations 2. Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice • Concept • Issues to be covered • Contents: examples

3. Life Safety Requirements in ‘Tall’ Buildings 4. Life safety and Security Requirements in Intelligent Building


TAXONOMY OF BUILDINGS IN VIEW OF LIFE SAFETY CONSIDERATIONS • • • • •

Low-rise Buildings Mid-rise Buildings High-rise Buildings Tall and Super Tall Buildings Intelligent Buildings


LOW-RISE

MID-RISE

HIGH-RISE

UAE: Height < 15m

UAE: 15m < Height < 23m

UAE – USA: Height > 23m UK: Height > 30m

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TALL AND SUPER TALL BUILDINGS

INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS

Singapore: Height > 91m New Zealand: Height > 91m (20 floors) Fire and Life Safety Design for Tall buildings Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

Safety and Security considerations

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FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY: CODES OF PRACTICE Low-rise, mid-rise and high-rise buildings • Concept • Issues to be covered • Contents: examples


Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Concept

Fire and Life Safety Code of Practice is the outcome of discussion between: • Civil Defense Department • Fire Safety professionals • Industrial fire protection practitioners • Fire engineering consultants • Matured international standards such as: National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) International Code Council (ICC) British Standards (BS) European Standards (EN) Singapore Fire Code (SFC) • Local authority (regulations) • Vendors Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Issues to be covered • Construction

• Fire detection and alarm systems

• Fire services

• Fire protection systems

• Means of egress

• Mechanical ventilation and smoke control

• Fire extinguishers

• Monitoring

• Exit signs

• Guidelines for the disabled

• Emergency lighting

• Risk assessment

• Voice evacuation and communication system

• Submission of drawings

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Fire rating for exterior walls and exterior openings

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Sprinkler and draft curtain used in escalator opening

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Mezzanine: Area limitations + mezzanine enclosure

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Materials: properties, testing and approval

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Access way for fire fighting appliances

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Facilities for fire fighting appliances

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Facilities for fire fighting appliances

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Architectural elements

Dimensions of staircase Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

Re-entry floors Arab League Center, Crowne Plaza Dubai Deira Dubai - 2016


Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Architectural elements

Layout of fire fighting lobby, fire lift and exit staircase Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

Mechanical ventilation for smoke-proof & fire fighting lobby

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Architectural elements

Natural ventilation for car park structures Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Architectural elements

Handrail location Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Mechanical elements

Spacing between heat and some detectors Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

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Distribution pattern of a standard sprinkler


Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Mechanical elements

Standby fans Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

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Fire and Life Safety: Codes of Practice Contents: examples Mechanical elements

Smoke purging for enclosed car park structure Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

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ENGINEERING GUIDE: FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY FOR TALL BUILDINGS Tall and Super Tall Buildings • Concept / Challenges • Issues to be covered • Contents: examples


Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Concept / Challenges

Conventional fire and life safety codes of high-rise buildings are not enough to ensure safety in tall and super-tall buildings, due to the following: • Height beyond available resources of fire department ladders • Extended evacuation time • Effort needed to reach the grade level • Pronounced Stack effect • Water supply limitations • Greater challenges of mixed occupancies • Iconic nature of the building

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Engineering Guide

Description • Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) and the International Code Council (ICC) • Why: address complex fire protection challenges of very tall buildings. • The guide provides performance-based fire protection engineering concepts and can be applied internationally.

• Target users include: Engineers, architects, building officials, contractors, and other professionals involved in the construction of tall buildings.

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Engineering Guide

Topics • History

• Components of performance-based design

• International practices

• Unique features of tall buildings

• Hazard, risk and decision analysis

• Integration of building systems

• Reliability of systems

• Situation awareness

• Emergency egress

• Fire resistance

• Facades

• Suppression

• Detection and alarm

• Smoke control

• First responder issues

• Electrical

• Buildings under construction

• Building life cycle management

• Commissioning

• Inspection, testing and maintenance

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Engineering Guide

History: significant tall building incidents 1. One New York Plaza - August 15, 1970

2. MGM Grand - November 21, 1980 3. First Interstate Bank - May 4, 1988 4. One Meridian Plaza – February 23, 1991 5. World Trade Center Explosion and Fire – February 26, 1993 6. World Trade Center Buildings 1 & 2 – September 11, 2001 7. World Trade Center Building 7 (WTC 7) – September 11, 2001 8. Cook County Administration Building – 2003 9. Caracas Tower Fire - October 17, 2004 10. Windsor Tower, Madrid, Spain – February 12, 2005 11. The Beijing Mandarin Oriental Hotel Fire - February 9, 2009 Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Engineering Guide

History: lessons learned One Meridian Plaza, Philadelphia, Feb. 23, 1991 • The need for sprinkler redundant water supply

protection

having

• Curtain walls should be protected to limit fire & smoke spread at exterior walls between floors. • Annual inspection and testing of the pressure reducing valves is needed. • Fire alarm systems for high rise buildings should be connected to a supervisory service. • Primary and secondary power should be routed independently. Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Engineering Guide

History: lessons learned Windsor Tower, Madrid, Spain – February 12, 2005 • High rise buildings need sprinkler protection having redundant water supply. • Curtain walls should be protected to limit fire and smoke spread at the exterior wall between floors. • Vertical openings, including stairways and elevator shafts, need to be protected to limit smoke and fire spread between floors.

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Evacuation Strategies 1- Simultaneous Evacuation • Evacuation of all building occupants on all floors, egressing at the same time

• It might be adopted for tall buildings in non-fire scenarios • It causes large-scale disruption • Egress components require greater width than those required for other evacuation strategies

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Evacuation Strategies 2- Phased / staged / sequential Evacuation • Evacuating people in the immediate vicinity of the fire, firstly.

• Occupants outside the evacuation zone are either notified or are given no warning • Initial evacuation zone is determined on a case-bycase basis

• The philosophy adopted is the initial evacuation of the fire floor + above floors (2 to 3) + below floors (2 to 3) • It requires a good level of fire and smoke resistant compartmentation between evacuation zones

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Evacuation Strategies 3- Progressive Evacuation • The same as phased evacuation, except that the occupants are evacuated to a safe area within the building • Occupants will either remain, or be relocated to an alternative safe area • The relocation of occupants can either be horizontal or vertical • Tall buildings (relatively small footprints) generally adopt the vertical form • One notable exception is the sky bridge connecting twin towers; e.g. Highlight Towers in Munich and Petronas building in Kuala Lumpur. Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Evacuation Strategies 3- Progressive Evacuation

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Evacuation Strategies 4- Full/Total Building Evacuation • Using protected stairways to reduced level of risk from fire and smoke.

• Protected elevators can be also used. • Minimizing evacuation time is crucial. • In Taipei 101 in Taiwan, total evacuation time was 2.5hrs when using only the egress stairs.

• Incorporating the use of elevators resulted in a reduction in the overall evacuation time to 1 hr.

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Evacuation Strategies 5- Hybrid/Combined Strategies • Many modern tall buildings contain more than one occupancy types; hotel, offices, restaurants, cafes, etc. • Tall buildings may have a separate evacuation strategy for each individual occupancy. • Vertical egress components can be shared among various occupancies. • The combination of strategies should be tested.

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings How to reduce the evacuation time? Components of Egress • Exit discounting (an exit can be lost in the event of a fire)

• Horizontal Stair Transfers (the need to transfer floors or corridors) • Effective wayfinding/exit signage • Egress discharge locations (safe, away from car movement paths and sufficient)

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings How to reduce the evacuation time? Elevator Evacuation Elevators can play the following roles: • For use by the fire department in their fire fighting operations. • For use by fire-fighters to shuttle equipment. • For use by the fire department to assist in rescue operations.

• For use by disabled occupants for evacuation, or others unable to use the stairways. • For use by all of, or a portion of the general building population for evacuation.

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings How to reduce the evacuation time? Training and communication • Fire fighting department. • Occupants.

• Training should not be restricted to classrooms; it should include practical training. • Training should be periodical (scheduled).

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Supplemental escape equipment

• Helicopters for Egress/Rooftop Helipads • This might conflict with the use of green roofs and PV cells • Number of evacuees is relatively small. • Direction of movement is then upwards; conflicting with those getting downwards.

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Protecting building occupants in place (Refuge Floors)

• Creating safe areas within the building to which occupants can be relocated (areas of refuge / refuge floors) • • • •

Waiting for an evacuation elevator Included protected elevator lobbies or stairway landings Fully protected by sprinklers With openings to the exterior on opposing sides to prevent smoke accumulation • Re-entry is allowed

• Sky lobbies • Areas (or even whole floors) where transfer between various elevator groups can be achieved in order to reach the desired floor • Sky lobby areas may share a level with mechanical equipment

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings When ‘refuge floors’ are needed?

• Korea: building height > 50 stories or 200m • Hong Kong: building height > 25 stories • KSA: building height > 30 stories

• India: building height > 24 stories

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Development of Egress Plan

• What are the anticipated credible events? • How a fire is detected? • How are occupants alerted?

• How are emergency responders alerted? • How will occupants and fire department personnel interact? • Where will the occupants go?

• How are occupants being accounted for? • Will elevators be used?

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Building Fire Modelling

• FDS (Fire Dynamics Simulator) is a computational fluid dynamics (CFD) model of fire-driven fluid flow. The software solves numerically a form of the Navier-Stokes equations appropriate for lowspeed, thermally-driven flow, with an emphasis on smoke and heat transport from fires. • CFAST (Consolidated Model of Fire and Smoke Transport) is a two-zone fire model used to calculate the evolving distribution of smoke, fire gases and temperature throughout compartments of a building during a fire.

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Engineering Guide: Fire and Life Safety for Tall Buildings Structural Fire Analysis

Structural fire analysis means analyzing the structural systems under realistic fire conditions. This type of approach typically involves: • Evaluation of realistic fire scenarios in and around the building. • Calculation of the heat transfer from the fire(s) to the structural elements. • Quantification of the structure’s response.

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SAFETY AND SECURITY CONSIDERATIONS IN INTELLIGENT BUILDINGS • • • •

Safety and Security of Intelligent Buildings Securing IBMSs Technical Solutions Conclusion Remarks: Safety and Security in Buildings


Safety and Security of Intelligent Buildings What is special about ‘Intelligent Buildings’?

Intelligent Building Management Systems (IBMSs)

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Securing IBMS Why securing IBMS? • IBMSs are now connected to other building systems (IT data centers, remote access servers and public utilities). • Growth in the use of open protocols. • This offers a wide range of opportunities, while at the same time posing influential challenges, among which ….. SECURITY of the IBMSs is one the most important concern.

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Technical Solutions Schneider Electric 3-Phase Security Plan

Design Installation

Operation

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Technical Solutions Schneider Electric 3-Phase Security Plan Design • Physical security • Multiple barriers to access (building, room, and cabinet access control) • Preventing unauthorized physical access to network devices. • Protect communication cables.

• Network infrastructure • • • •

Limits network access points Use firewalls to access control Manage users accesses Restrict remote access

• Selection of components (security features) • Wireless technology Life Safety and Security for Buildings Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef

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Technical Solutions Schneider Electric 3-Phase Security Plan Installation • Considerations • Isolate all the system from the outside world till ready • Hardware (equipment) • Anti-virus software • Security measures

• Configuration rules of the Firewall • System devices • User accounts

• Thread detection and mitigation

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Technical Solutions Schneider Electric 3-Phase Security Plan Operation • Monitoring the system

• Maintaining user accounts and access lists • Backup and recovery plan • Firewalls periodical check

• Building IBMS security awareness • Periodical security audits • • • •

Penetration testing Attempts to acquire passwords from users Verifying the security procedures followed Assessment of protection against new types of threats

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Technical Solutions TE Connectivity: Solutions for building safety and security Fire detection Video surveillance Access control

Theft detection Intrusion detection Network systems

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Technical Solutions TE Connectivity: Solutions for building safety and security Fire detection

Fire Detection

Video Surveillance

Access Control

Theft detection

Intrusion detection

Network system

Video surveillance Access control

Theft detection Intrusion detection Network systems

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Technical Solutions Siemens Solutions Danger Management Installing one-source management application that combines all safety and security features into one system. • Fire • Intrusion

DMS8000

• Access / Vandalism

Benefits at a glance

• Evacuation

• Management station

• Video Surveillance

• Centralized danger management and supervision

• HVAC

• Flexibility to safety and security strategy • Guidance capabilities during the event treatment • Open architecture and scalability

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Technical Solutions Siemens Solutions Fire Detection Systems / Cerberus PRO

Fire detection system

Panels for safety overview

Fire detectors

Special detectors

Floor displays

Acoustic/optical alarming

• Fire control panels – they combine high security standards with latest technology • Fire detectors – they ensure very fast and highly reliable detection thanks to intelligent detection technology

• Peripheral devices – they increase safety even further • Special detectors – they cover applications from hazardous areas to high bay warehousing

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Technical Solutions Siemens Solutions Multi-sensor: High intelligence

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Conclusion Remarks: Safety and Security in Buildings

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Proper building height Maximum building height; i.e. compact building form, smart growth, footprint, land value, etc.

Versus minimum building height: minimize the challenges imposed by building height (safety)

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Conclusion Remarks: Safety and Security in Buildings

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Integration between architectural and engineering disciplines in the deign process

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Architectural design, MEP disciplines, structural engineering, fire and life safety specialists, etc.

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Conclusion Remarks: Safety and Security in Buildings

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Use of Simulation Tools Way-finding, visibility, integration, fire simulation, structural simulation, etc.

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Conclusion Remarks: Safety and Security in Buildings

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Integrated security and life safety plan Appropriate evacuation strategy, components of egress, scheduled/periodical and practical training, communication with users, reports, etc.

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Conclusion Remarks: Safety and Security in Buildings

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Evacuation strategy Simultaneous, progressive, phased / staged / sequential, full / total or hybrid evacuation strategy

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Conclusion Remarks: Safety and Security in Buildings

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Level of technology Latest technology, flexibility of the system, vendors, maintenance,

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continuous updates, testing, maintenance, etc.

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Thanks for attention

Dr. Khaled Ali Youssef Department of Architecture, Faculty of Environmental Design, King Abdul Aziz University, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia

E-mail: khaled_ali@yahoo.com khaled.ali.youssef@gmail.com kaali3@kau.edu.sa Tel: 00966 53 7896 144


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