Fire protection requirements for buildings include construction elements like fire ratings for materials and exits, detection and suppression systems, and emergency power for safety. Passive fire protection incorporates fire-resistant components like walls, floors, and closures to segment a building and minimize fire damage. The goal is to design and build structures that maintain safety, security, and continuity of operations in the event of hazards like fires through both active and passive fire protection measures.

1. Fire protection is mitigating the unwanted effects of fires. In structures,
be they land-based, offshore or even ships, the owners and operators are
responsible to maintain their facilities in accordance with a design-basis that
is rooted in laws, including the local building code and fire code. Buildings
must be constructed in accordance with the version of the building code that
is in effect when an application for a building permit is made.
A building code, is a set of rules that specify
the minimum acceptable level of safety for
constructed objects such as buildings and
non-building structures.
Specification is an explicit set of
requirements to be satisfied by a material,
product, or service.
Building Construction Requirements, at a minimum will address the
following elements:
• Construction type, allowable height, and area
• Exposures/separation requirements
• Fire ratings, materials, and systems
• Occupancy types
• Interior finish
• Exit stairway enclosure
Egress Requirements:
• Exit stairway remoteness
• Exit discharge
• Areas of refuge
• Accessible exits
• Door locking arrangements (security interface)
Fire Detection and Notification System Requirements:
• Detection
• Notification
• Survivability of systems

2. Fire Suppression Requirements:
• Water supply
• Type of automatic fire extinguishing system
o Water-based fire extinguishing system
o Non-water-based fire extinguishing system
• Standpipes and fire department hose outlets
Emergency Power, Lighting, and Exit Signage:
• Survivability of systems
• Electrical Safety
• Distributed Energy Resources
Special Fire Protection Requirements:
• Engineered smoke control systems
• Fireproofing and firestopping
• Atrium spaces
• Mission critical facility needs
Goals
• Continuity of operations
• Property protection
• Life safety
Secure / Safe
The design and construction of secure and safe buildings continues to be the
primary goal for owners, architects, engineers, and project managers. The
design of buildings for security and safety requires a proactive approach that
anticipates—and then protects—the building occupants, resources, structure,
and continuity of operations from multiple hazards. There are times when
design requirements addressing all the various threats will pose conflicts in
arriving at acceptable design and construction solutions.
Model building codes require passive fire protection and active fire
protection systems to minimize damage resulting from a fire. The most
common form of active fire protection is fire sprinklers. To maximize
passive fire protection of buildings, building materials and furnishings.

3. Passive Fire Protection (PFP) in a building can be described as a group of
systems within systems. An installed Firestops achieve a fire rating by
combining certain materials in an arrangement specific to the item (e.g.,
pipe, cable) penetrating the fire rated wall or floor, and the construction
arrangement of the fire rated wall or floor itself.
• fire-resistance rated walls
• Firewalls not only have a rating, they are also designed to sub-divide
buildings such that if collapse occurs on one side, this will not affect
the other side. They can also be used to eliminate the need for
sprinklers, as a trade-off.
• Fire-resistant glass glass using multi-layer intumescent technology
or wire mesh embedded within the glass may be used in the
fabrication of fire-resistance rated windows in walls or fire doors.
• fire-resistance rated floors
• occupancy separations (barriers designated as occupancy separations
are intended to segregate parts of buildings, where different uses are
on each side; for instance, apartments on one side and stores on the
other side of the occupancy separation).
• closures (fire dampers) Sometimes firestops are treated in building
codes identically to closures. where, for instance a 2 hour closure is
acceptable for use in a 3 hour fire separation, so long as the fire
separation is not an occupancy separation or firewall. The lowered
rating is then referred to as a fire protection rating, both for firestops,
unless they contain plastic pipes and regular closures.
• firestops
• grease ducts (These refer to ducts that lead from commercial cooking
equipment such as ranges, deep fryers and double-decker and
conveyor-equipped pizza ovens to grease duct fans.)
• cable coating (application of fire-retardants, which are either
endothermic or intumescent, to reduce flamespread and smoke
development of combustible cable-jacketing)
• spray fireproofing (application of intumescent or endothermic paints,
or fibrous or cementitious plasters to keep substrates such as structural
steel, electrical or mechanical services, valves, liquefied petroleum
gas (LPG) vessels, vessel skirts, bulkheads or decks below either 140
°C for electrical items or ca. 500 °C for structural steel elements to
maintain operability of the item to be protected)
• fireproofing cladding (boards used for the same purpose and in the
same applications as spray fireproofing) Materials for such cladding

4. include perlite, vermiculite, calcium silicate, gypsum, intumescent
epoxy, Durasteel (cellulose-fibre reinforced concrete and punched
sheet-metal bonded composite panels), MicroTherm
• enclosures (boxes or wraps made of fireproofing materials, including
fire-resistive wraps and tapes to protect speciality valves and other
items deemed to require protection against fire and heat—an analogy
for this would be a safe) or the provision of circuit integrity measures
to keep electrical cables operational during an accidental fire.
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INSTALLATION
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