Fire Services System - Part 1: RECO2030 Building Services For Health and Safety
Fire Services System - Part 1: RECO2030 Building Services For Health and Safety
Fire Services System - Part 1: RECO2030 Building Services For Health and Safety
Learning Outcomes
• To know:
– Fire engineering strategy in brief
– Tactics against fire in a building
– Ways to achieve fire safety in a building
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Furniture Fittings
What to
protect?
Adjacent
Building
Buildings
Public
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Stollard and
Abraham’s
five tactics
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Ionisation smoke detectors are good general-purpose Optical smoke detectors respond particularly well to slow-
detectors which respond well to fast-burning (flaming) fires burning (smouldering) fires. They are widely used for life
and are widely used for property protection. protection.
Building use
classification
(Buildings Department, 2011: p7)
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(6m)
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absorbing) materials
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(http://cherwellfiresafety.co.uk/firee
xtinguishercolourcodes.php ,
accessed 29 Jan 2013)
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Selected References
• Buildings Department. (2011). Code of Practice for Fire Safety in Buildings. Hong
Kong SAR Government.
• Chadderton, D.V. (2004). Building Services Engineering, 4th ed. London: Spon
Press.
• Chien, H-L., Chi, J-H., and Wu, S-H. (2013). Hotel fire accident reconstruction based
on fire dynamics simulator (FDS). In: Proceedings of the International
MultiConference of Engineers and Computer Scientists Vol II, 13-15 March 2013,
Hong Kong.
• Hall, F. and Greeno, R. 2017. Building Services Handbook, 9th ed. London and New
York: Routledge.
• Portman, J. (2014). Building Services Design Management. West Sussex, UK: John
Wiley and Sons.
• Stollard, P. and Abrahams, J. (1999). Fire from First Principles: A Design Guide to
Building Fire Safety, 3rd ed. London: E&FN Spon.
• Janis, R.R. and Tao, W.K.Y. (2008). Mechanical and Electrical Systems in Buildings,
4th ed. Upper Saddle River, NJ.: Pearson Prentice Hall.