September 2011
September 2011
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This Month’s Topic: Care Home
- 5 storey residential care home.
- 74 assisted living suites and 25 en-suite bedrooms for residents living with dementia.
- Client requested open corridors to promote circulation and minimal disruption to all residents in the event of fire, with particular reference to the dementia area of the care home.
Care Home
- Design Flexibility – CFD modelling used to justify use of mechanical ventilation to allow open corridors.
- Cost Saving – cross corridor doors removed and overprovision of venting avoided.
- Holistic Approach – allowed fire safety system of a stay-put policy, hugely reducing disruption to residents.
- Client Satisfaction – fire engineering allowed the open plan design and stay-put policy to work safely in the event of fire.
Service
Innovation Fire Engineering produces effective fire safety strategies that work in harmony with the building design. We create innovative solutions tailored to individual projects, allowing more design flexibility than the prescriptive codes. Our strategies always comply with the functional requirements of the Building Regulations and never compromise fire safety.
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