A platform for research: civil engineering, architecture and urbanism
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More Fire Safety Can Cost Less
The provision of effective fire protection in an economical manner is investigated. A clinical care facility under construction at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, is described. It is scheduled for completion by October 1978. A fire prevention engineering firm was hired to design a fire protection system for the facility's buildings, substituting a new sprinkler system in place of conventional sprinklers, and to design a composite fire safety plan for the facility. The sprinkler system is the primary fire safety mechanism in the composite plan, with structural fireproofing and compartmentation features as secondary aspects. Excessive fire protection costs have been eliminated with the sprinkler system, and it meets local State, and Federal fire safety regulations. It is felt that the facility's buildings will be more safe because sprinklers are installed throughout them. A reduction in constuction costs of more than $5 million due to the sprinkler system is reported. The composite fire safety plan allows a more rational correlation between emergency plans and procedures and emergency systems. Concepts upon which the sprinkler system and composite plan are based are detailed.
More Fire Safety Can Cost Less
The provision of effective fire protection in an economical manner is investigated. A clinical care facility under construction at the University of Kansas Medical Center in Kansas City, Missouri, is described. It is scheduled for completion by October 1978. A fire prevention engineering firm was hired to design a fire protection system for the facility's buildings, substituting a new sprinkler system in place of conventional sprinklers, and to design a composite fire safety plan for the facility. The sprinkler system is the primary fire safety mechanism in the composite plan, with structural fireproofing and compartmentation features as secondary aspects. Excessive fire protection costs have been eliminated with the sprinkler system, and it meets local State, and Federal fire safety regulations. It is felt that the facility's buildings will be more safe because sprinklers are installed throughout them. A reduction in constuction costs of more than $5 million due to the sprinkler system is reported. The composite fire safety plan allows a more rational correlation between emergency plans and procedures and emergency systems. Concepts upon which the sprinkler system and composite plan are based are detailed.
More Fire Safety Can Cost Less
L. J. Krueger (author) / R. M. Patton (author)
1976
3 pages
Report
No indication
English
Health Care Technology , Building Equipment, Furnishings, & Maintenance , Health care facilities , State regions , Revisions , Missouri , Health care technology , Costs , Design , Construction , Reprints , Fire protection , HRP/HH , HRP/ZC , HRP/QAS , HRPGEO/YMO , HRPGEO/YCN , HRPOCC/XZ , Fire safety , Benefit cost analysis , Medical centers
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