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Where a building contains usage falling under different purpose groups and
each is contained within compartment, by-law 215 of the UBBL allows the
height of each part of the building housing a different purpose group, if they are
vertically separated, to be considered separately for compliance with Schedule
6, 7, 9 in the UBBL
FIRE APPLIANCES
ACCESS
DESIGN NOTES
• The table in By- law 140 (above) shows the proportion of the building
perimeter that must be accessible to fire fighting appliances
one-sixth one-half
• Must provide gaining access and fighting fire from within the building
consisting of fire fighting access lobbies, fire fighting staircases, fire lifts and
dry or wet rising systems
• Fire fighting access lobbies shall be provided at every floor & the level
distance from the furthermost point of the floor does not exceed 45.75
meters
• Fire fighting access lobbies may be omitted if the fire fighting staircase is
pressurised to meet the requirements of by-law 200
• A fire fighting staircase shall be provided to give direct access to each fire
fighting access lobby & shall be directly accessible from outside the building
at fire appliance access level
• A fire lift shall be provided to give access to each fire fighting access lobby
or in the absence of a lobby to the fire fighting staircase at each floor level
• The fire lift shall discharge directly into the fighting access lobby fire fighting
staircase or shall be connected to it by a protected corridor
MEANS OF ESCAPE is to direct a shortest route to a
place of safety, such as outside the building, or if still
within a building, a protected or isolated passageway,
stairs or refuge areas which lead to the outside
building
STOREY EXIT is a fire rated door to a protected
staircase or a corridor protected with a fire resisting
structure in accordance with the 9th schedule to these
By-laws & in the case of ground floor accommodation
storey exit means a door leading direct to a place
safety outside the building
Arrangement of storey exits
The principle of this clause is that once the escape route is inside a protected zone, then
the route shall remain protected all the way to the final exit.
FIRE LIFTS means lifts capable of being commandered
for exclusive use of firemen in emergency
Design requirement
• Location of fire lifts
• Number of fire lifts
• Numbers of floor to be served
• Lift well/shaft
• Landing doors
• Other requirement for fire lifts
ACTIVE FIRE PROTECTION
SYSTEM
sprinkler system
“ intended for the occupant to use during the early stages of fire ”
design requirements
• Hose reel:
• 30m coverage of each hose
reel
• One hose reel for every
800sq.m of usable floor space
• Located along escape routes
or besides exit doors or
staircase
hose reel system
CASE STUDY
City Bank Tower
MENARA CITIBANK
>> The fire fighting system of Menara
Citibank is divided into 3 zones
>> One person is in charge in the Fire
Control Room (FCR)
HIGH ZONE
Level 36-48
MID ZONE
Level 20-35
LOW ZONE
Level 9-19
fire safety
equipments
>>Emergency intercom system
provide automatic zoned
announcement in the event of
fire
Sprinkler
equipments
>>Roller shutter -
basement and lobby
Roller shutter
>>Pressurization fans-
stairways and lobby
Pressurization
fans
>>Hose reel and fire hose
Motorized
damper
equipments
Smoke detector
Sprinkler
FIRE ALARM
Alarm sounder
PANEL
Roller shutter
Pressurization fans
Secondly evacuated
FIRE
Firstly evacuated
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