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Fire Engineering in High Rise
15 November 2013
Neal Butterworth
Arup UK
www.arup.com
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Contents
• How do we protect against fire?
• How do we know this works?
• Why evacuate?
• What assumptions are made?
• How are buildings procured?
• What are the alternatives?
• Total Fire Engineering – an integrated approach.
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Caveat
• Talking in very generic terms!
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Typical Fire Strategy Concepts
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Typical High Rise Strategy Components
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Typical High Rise Strategy Components
• Contain fire: - Sprinklers
- Compartments
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Typical High Rise Strategy Components
• Contain fire: - Sprinklers
- Compartments
• Contain smoke - Compartments
- Smoke Control
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Typical High Rise Strategy Components
• Contain fire: - Sprinklers
- Compartments
• Contain smoke - Compartments
- Smoke Control
• Prevent collapse - Fire resistance
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Typical High Rise Strategy Components
• Contain fire: - Sprinklers
- Compartments
• Contain smoke - Compartments
- Smoke Control
• Prevent collapse - Fire resistance
• Evacuation - Detect and alarm
- Stairs
- Evacuate pairs of floors
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Typical High Rise Strategy Components
• Contain fire: - Sprinklers
- Compartments
• Contain smoke - Compartments
- Smoke Control
• Prevent collapse - Fire resistance
• Evacuation - Detect and alarm
- Stairs
- Evacuate pairs of floors
• Fire fighting - Provide access
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Acceptability through Precedent
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Fire Strategy Development
• Build what we want
• Learn from fire incidents and disasters
• Amend legislation and guidance when risk is unacceptable.
• This has led to established fire strategy concepts for:
- Low rise,
- Medium rise, and
- High rise.
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Low Rise – 1 to 2 Storeys
• Evacuation possible directly to outside
• Rescue possible from outside
• Collapse not a significant risk
• Fire spread not a significant life risk
• Fire fighting possible from outside
• Limited protection to evacuation routes
• Single stairs permissible
• Limited fire resistance requirements
• Limited compartmentation
• No specific fire fighting provisions
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Medium Rise – 3 to 8 storeys
• Evacuation reliance on stairs
• Rescue not possible from outside
• Stability required for a short period
• Fire spread starts to impact on risk
• Fire fighting difficult from outside
• At least two protected stairs
• Medium fire resistance requirements
• Some compartmentation required
• Fire fighting shafts introduced
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High Rise – 8+ Storeys
• Prolonged evacuation
• Rescue not possible from outside
• Stability required for a long period
• Risk associated with vertical
• Fire fighting difficult from inside
• Phased evacuation strategy
• High fire resistance requirements
• Compartment floors
• Sprinklers
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Precedent
Height Buildings Time (years) Building Years
Low Many millions Thousands 1,000,000,000
Medium Many hundred thousands Hundreds 10,000,000
High Many thousands Tens 10,000
Super-high Hundreds? Tens 1,000
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Theme (guidance vs. risk)
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Super-high rise Strategy?
• Prolonged evacuation
• Rescue not possible from outside
• Stability required for a long period
• Risk associated with vertical
• Fire fighting difficult from inside
• Evacuation very long / impossible
• Rescue not possible from outside
• Collapse unacceptable
• High risk associated with vertical
• Fire fighting difficult from inside
Super-high rise risks are different from high rise – shouldn’t the strategies be different?
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Why evacuate?
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If fire and smoke protection works…
• Contain fire:
- Sprinklers
- Compartments
• Contain smoke - Compartments
- Smoke Control
• Prevent collapse - Fire resistance
• Evacuation - Detect and alarm
- Stairs
- Evacuate pairs of floors
• Fire fighting - Provide access
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Why Evacuate?
• Fire and smoke are contained
• Structural stability will be maintained
• Only those in immediate vicinity at risk
• Fire service can extinguish any fire that is not already extinguished
Not at risk
Not at risk
Not at risk
Not at risk
Not at risk
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Many Reasons not to Evacuate
• Space requirements (evacuation points)
• Mobility impairments
• Fatigue
• Trips and falls
• Business disruption
• Paperwork
• Security breeches
• Complaints
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High Rise – 8+ Storeys
• Prolonged evacuation
• Rescue not possible from outside
• Stability required for a long period
• Risk associated with vertical
• Fire fighting difficult from inside
• Inhibit fire and smoke spread
• Reasonable stability
• Phased evacuation strategy
• Evacuation period is relatively short!
• Compartment floors
• Sprinklers
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Super-high Rise – 100+ Storeys
• Prolonged evacuation
• Rescue not possible from outside
• Stability required for a long period
• Risk associated with vertical
• Fire fighting difficult from inside
• Evacuation very long / impossible
• Rescue not possible from outside
• Collapse unacceptable
• High risk associated with vertical
• Fire fighting difficult from inside
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What assumptions are made?
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Typical High Rise Strategy Components
• Contain fire: - Sprinklers
- Compartments
• Contain smoke - Compartments
- Smoke Control
• Prevent collapse - Fire resistance
• Evacuation - Detect and alarm
- Stairs
- Evacuate pairs of floors
• Fire fighting - Provide access
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Typical High Rise Strategy Components
• Contain fire: - Sprinklers
- Compartments
• Contain smoke - Compartments
- Smoke Control
• Prevent collapse - Fire resistance
• Evacuation - Detect and alarm
- Stairs
- Evacuate pairs of floors
• Fire fighting - Provide access
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Typical High Rise Strategy Components
• Contain fire: - Sprinklers
- Compartments
• Contain smoke - Compartments
- Smoke Control
• Prevent collapse - Fire resistance
• Evacuation - Detect and alarm
- Stairs
- Evacuate pairs of floors
• Fire fighting - Provide access
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Causes of Failure
• Accidental failure - Poor design, specification, construction or use
- System failure
- Cause and effect failure
- Combined accidental loads
• Deliberate failure - Larger fire or multiple fires
- Sabotage of systems
- Combined events
• Low Probability but Extreme Consequence = High Risk?
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Building Procurement
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Building Procurement
• Means of escape - Can people really walk down?
• Smoke control - Stack and wind effect, building systems, cause
and effect
• Fire control - Changing fire load
• Fire Resistance - Assume single storey fire
- Don’t assess overall stability
• Fire Fighting - Assume single storey fire
Preparation
Design
Specification
Construction
Use
Fire fighting
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Fire Engineering
• Disconnect between design and specification
Preparation
Design
Specification
Construction
Use
Fire fighting
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Fire Engineering
• Construction quality
- Fire stopping
• Commissioning
- Systems commissioned separately
Preparation
Design
Specification
Construction
Use
Fire fighting
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Fire Engineering
• Quality of Handover - Do users know what has been built?
• Building Management - Quality of house-keeping
- Quality of maintenance
- Quality of training and staff
• Apparent Simplicity masks Actual Complexity
Preparation
Design
Specification
Construction
Use
Fire fighting
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Fire Engineering
• What information about the assumptions in the original design are available.
Preparation
Design
Specification
Construction
Use
Fire fighting
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Alternatives
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Capability
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Fire Scientists
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Computational Evacuation Simulation
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CFD Image
Computational Fluid
Dynamics
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Structural Fire
Modelling
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Fire systems specialists
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Total Fire Engineering
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All Design Decisions
All credible scenarios
Evacuation
Containment
Resistance
Suppression
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Integrate Design
Safety Strategy
Prepare
Design
Specify
Construct
Use
Fire fighting
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Organised Team
Safety Strategy
Structure
MEP
Fire Security
Etc.
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Conclusions
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Conclusions
• Rapid advanced in building design mean that acceptability by precedent is no longer possible.
• Consequence of fire spread in super-tall buildings are very high
• We must proactively identify acceptable levels of risk and design accordingly.
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Conclusions
• Great reliance is placed on the efficacy of the fire protection features and systems that we incorporate into our strategies.
• There is limited margin of safety for failure.
• We must design, specify, install, operate and maintain our systems correctly.
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Conclusions
• Design assumptions that are valid for high rise design are not necessarily appropriate for super-high rise strategies.
• The consequence of incorrect assumptions is very high.
• We must consider all relevant design fire scenarios and test against potential system failure.
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Conclusions
• We have the capability, and the tools but…
• Fire can no longer be considered in isolation.
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Ove Arup - Total Architecture
Great things can happen when, "all relevant design
decisions have been considered together and have
been integrated into a whole by a well organised
team.”
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Ove Arup - Total Architecture
Great things can happen when, "all relevant design
decisions have been considered together and have
been integrated into a whole by a well organised
team.”
Safety is relevant and must be integrated into design.