Archbishop Blanch High School
The Brief:
The design supply & installation of a life safety sprinkler system within a three storey high school fully to comply with LPCB TB221 regulations within an unusually high end architectural school premises incorporating an extremely high curved roof constructed of timber laminated beams and to ensure that the adequate fire sprinkler protection coverage was achieved to afford the high life safety specification required.
Our Solution:
The new sprinkler system was provided with duplicate water storage tanks and fire pump sets to comply with the higher specification for life safety requirements to ensure sprinkler coverage can be maintained at all times even through maintenance visits and all areas of the school were suitably segregated, zoned and electrically monitored to ensure only small sections of the system would be isolated at any one time and that these would immediately send alarm signals to the life safety alarm panel alerting the school and the remote monitoring station of any potential fire sprinkler issues.
Furthermore due to the nature of the unusually high level curved roof and the fact that the sprinkler protection and associated pipework had to be installed exposed and visible from the ground floor we had all the pipework professionally powder coated white, fitted white sprinklers and furthermore installed the pipework to follow the curved radius of the roof to compliment the architects design.
The sprinkler installation within this premises was designed utilising AutoCAD and was fully hydraulically calculated utilising an approved hydraulic computer programme (FHC) which is unique to fire sprinkler organisations that are approved by the LPCB to undertake this level of work.
The Results:
On completion of the sprinkler installation the premises have benefited from a full life safety sprinkler installation in full compliance with LPCB regulations and acts as a 24hour 365 days a year automatic fire protection system which is designed to protect the school premises from possible malicious or accidental fire occurrences and is recognised by the buildings insurers as the best form of fire protection which is providing protection to the premises when the building is occupied or unoccupied and electrically monitored and linked to the fire brigade services for automatic attendance in the event of an activation.