Risk Engineering Technical Seminars

Ventilation Systems (artificial and natural) - 24 July 2020

• Essential requirements - the hazards of smoke
• Critical conditions for temperature -  design values
• Condition for flashover
• Fire classes
• Steady-state fires — not sprinklered
• Steady state fires — sprinklered
• T-square fires
• Fuel bed-controlled fires
• Axisymmetric plume/s
• Design principles of a smoke management system
• Systems intended to protect the area in which the fire/s start/s
• Plumes above large fires
• Smoke layer temperatures
• Minimum number of smoke ventilators
• Area of natural ventilators required
• Required ventilation rate powered ventilation
• Maximum dimensions for smoke reservoirs

Sprinkler Systems - 10 July 2020

• Importance of a fire sprinkler system
• Advantages and disadvantages
• Component functions
• Inspection process
• Action upon activation of a sprinkler system​