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Bangkok Shopping Mall Fire
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South Korea largest Forest Fire
Image courtesy of AFP South Korea has declared a national emergency in response to one of the largest wildfires on record. At least one person has died and more than 4,000 people have been evacuated during the largest...
Fire safety is not confined to commercial buildings such as corporate headquarters, factories, high-rise buildings, modern shopping complexes or multi-story hotels but also residential dwellings. Domestic fire incidents with high casualty rate constitute a major portion of the national fire statistics. Therefore, fire safety at home is equally important as residential housing is not covered under Uniform Building By-laws for mandatory fire protection systems.
Fire Hazards
Fire hazards The degree of presence of abundance of combustibles or the presence of ignition source or the presence of both combustibles and source of ignitions which can caused an uncontrollable fire. Fire hazards...
Fire risks
Fire risks are probability of occurrents of fire incidents cause by fire hazards and the consequences of possible damage caused.
Fire Risk Assessment and Management
Fire risks assessment is a process in estimation of the level of risk posed by a fire hazard through the assessment of the likelihood of harm and possibility of occurrence, firstly to people, but also to property and...
Firefighter Safety
Latest fire statistics reveal that despite the gradual reduction in fire incidents, firefighters’ fatality rate is on the rise which puzzles authority concerned. Research has found that despite the firefighter’s suite...
Fire protection is the study and practice of mitigating the unwanted effects of fires. It involves the study of fire behavior, compartmentation, suppression and investigation of fire and its related emergencies, as well as the research and development, production, testing and application of mitigating systems. In structures, be they land-based, offshore or even ships, the owners and operators are responsible to maintain their facilities in accordance with a design-basis that is rooted in laws, including the local building code and fire code, which are enforced by the Authority Having Jurisdiction.
Automatic Sprinkler System
An automatic sprinkler system is intended to detect, control and extinguish a fire, and warn the occupants of the occurrence of fire. The installation comprises fire pumps, water storage tanks, control valve sets...
Fire Detection and Alarm System
Fire detection and alarm systems are designed to provide warning of the outbreak of fire and allow appropriate fire fighting action to be taken before the situation gets out of control. Primary function of fire...
Wet riser system
Wet risers are a form of internal hydrant for the firemen to use and are always charged with water. They are only required for buildings where the topmost floor is higher than 30 metres above the fire appliance access...
Hosereel system
Hose reel system is intended for the occupant to use during the early stages of a fire and comprises hose reel pumps, fire water storage tank, hose reels, pipe work and valves. Design Standards The requirement for hose...
Hydrant system
Fire hydrant installation consists of a system of pipework connected directly to the water supply mains to provide water to each and every hydrant outlet and is intended to provide water for the firefighters to fight a...
Dry riser system
Dry riser are a form of internal hydrant for the firemen to use and area only required for buildings where the topmost (occupied) floor is higher than 18 metres and less than 30 metres above the fire appliance access...
Water Mist System
Water mist system is another form of fire extinguishing system using fine water droplet to effective suppress and extinguished a fire. It is originally used in the Maritime application on board ships and liners before...
Fire pumpsets, starter panel and water storage tanks
Sprinkler, Wet Riser, Pressurized Hydrant Systems The above fire protection systems will have the following three pump sets: – Duty Pumpset Standby pumpset Jockey pumpset Firefighting pumpsets draw water from...
Piping, Fitting and Accessories
Piping shall be black steel class B for sprinkler system and galvanized iron to BS 1387 class C for underground piping. For the rest of fire protection systems, piping shall be of class C for hosereel, wet riser, and...
Oxygen Deficient Inert Atmosphere Fire Protection System
One of the passive fire protection system is Oxygen deficient inert atmosphere fire protection system. Instead of waiting for fire to occurred, detect and extinguished it, this particular system filter the air within...
Self Contained Water Monitor System
Self Contained Water Monitor System is an automatic water cannon unit for detection and suppression of initial fire incident with water jet. Water monitor was developed to meet the fire protection requirements of large...
Foam
Firefighting foam is a foam used for fire suppression for Class B fire or for aviation industries. Its role is to cool the fire and to coat the fuel, preventing its contact with oxygen, resulting in extinguishing the...
IFEX - Impulse Fire Extinguishing Technology
IFEX is a German developed technology using water mist expelled under high pressure at high speed entering the seat of fire and extinguished it without reburning.Fire rated dry wall
Fire rated dry wall construction are made up of light weight structure with layer/layers of non-combustible boards (at time with insulation infills) to form a compartment to prevent fire propagation. It has gain...
Fire resistant doorset
Fire resistant doorset is part of fire-rated compartment to facilitate traffic between two rooms or two floors. It functions to reduce the spread of fire or smoke between compartments and to enable safe egress from...
Fire rated roller/panel shutter
Fire rated roller shutter function the same as fire rated doorset. They are used for bigger fire wall openings e.g. factory, sports complex, mega shopping mall, air hangers, etc. in lieu of compartmentation walls to...
Fire rated ductwork
In general, ductwork may pass through compartment walls or floors which have a prescribed fire resistance period in terms of load-bearing capacity (stability), integrity and insulation criteria. It is critical for the...
Pressurization system
A pressurization system is intended to keep protected escape routes of a building clear of smoke by means of introducing sufficient fresh air to maintain a positive pressure in protected escape routes against...
Fire stopping
Fire stopping are at times refer to as fire barrier system The fundamental principle in compartmentation is that the floors and walls forming the compartment must be maintained. Buildings under construction tend to...
Steel structure fire protection
Structural steel has been used more and more to replace concrete structure simply because of its lightweight and speedy construction. Aspect of life safety and property conservation most building regulations require...
Fire resistant Intumerscent coating
Fire resistant intumerscent coating are normally used to protect steel beams or columns or for cables on cable trays running ling distances in power stations in remote locations to reduce fire incidents. It is also used...
Fire damper
Fire dampers are passive fire protection products installed in ventilation, air-conditioning and smoke extract ducts to prevent the spread of fire inside the ductwork through fire compartment walls and floors...
Compartmentation
Compartmentation is an architectural design process in providing any part of a building which is separated from all other parts by one or more compartment walls or compartment floors or by both such walls and floors...
Means of egress
Fire does not normally start in two different places in a building at the same time but may propagate through riser ducts or shafts. At the initial state, fire poses a danger only in the part of the building in which it...
Smoke control and management
This area looks at smoke control by means of natural (displacement of exhaust) ventilation, powered (extract or exhaust and de-pressurization) ventilation or a combination of both. Smoke control by means of...
Fire Safety Articles
FIRE SAFETY FOR HEALTHCARE FACILITIES ‘FIRE’ – a seemingly harmless 4-letter word but in reality, fire has destroyed properties and investments worth hundreds of million dollars each year – a devastating...
Performance-based design
The Fire Engineering – Performance Based Approach (FE-PBA) is a methodology for design, evaluation and assessment of fire safety in buildings. It identifies an engineering approach to building fire safety and...
Fire Investigation
Fire investigations is a process to collect, analyse, and report detailed fire incident data through on-site investigations of evidence on fire scene. Reports may take the form full reports, preliminary or summary...
