IKU FACULTY of ARCHITECTURE PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTAL CONTROL 2

APPLICATION 03

Design of HVAC System for the Selected Hall with Respect

to Comfort Conditions, Placement of Automatic Fire
Detection and Extinguishing Equipments

SPECIAL CONSIDERATION FOR FIRE SAFETY IN AUDITORIUMS

Design principles of escape route travels auditoriums are given in Figure 1 and maximum
permitted number of seats is given in Table 1.

Figure 1: Design of escape route travels in auditoriums

Table 1: Maximum permitted number of seats in a row (TFPR, 2009)

Width of aisle Maximum permitted number of seats in a row

accessway Limited in one way Accessible in two ways
400-424 11 22
425-449 11 24
450-474 12 26
475-499 12 28
 500 Limited with means of egress

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 LOCATION OF AUTOMATIC FIRE DETECTION AND EXTINGUISHING EQUIPMENTS

Fire detection

The operational radius of the detectors located inside the 5% of the floor height are given on
the Table 6. The horizontal distance depicted on the Table between the areas protected and
the detectors should not be exceeded.

Detectors (except optical and beam types smoke detectors) should not be located closer
than 0.5m to partitions and walls. In case of air-conditioning through suspended ceilings each
detector should have an unpunctured ceiling section around it.

Table 2. Operational radius and floor height limits for detectors (Yangın Söndürme Sistemleri
Uygulama El Kitabı, 2009)

Floor height (m)

> 4,5 >6 >8 > 11

≤4,5 > 25
≤6 ≤8 ≤ 11 ≤ 25
Dedector
Operation radius (m)
type
Smoke:
Point type: 7,5 7,5 7,5 7,5 NN NS
EN 54-7
NS – Not suitable for this operational height.
NN – Normally not used. May be used for special applications.

 Automatic Sprinkler System

The aim of the automatic sprinkler system is providing early response to a fire initiated,
discharging determined amount of water onto design area to suppress and extinguish
purposes.

An automatic sprinkler heads should be mounted as to cover maximum 21 m 2 area for low-
risk and medium risk-1 areas.

In case of using standard upright and pendent type automatic sprinkler heads in low-risk and
medium-risk groups the maximum distance amongst them should be 4.6 m and the distance
between a wall and a sprinkler head should be 2.3 m. The symbols to use for sprinkler heads
and detectors for drawing on plan can be seen on Table 3.

Table 3: Symbols for Sprinkler and Fire detector

Desciption Symbol
Sprinkler head S

Ionization Smoke Detector

Optical Smoke Detector

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 DESIGN OF HVAC SYSTEM FOR THE SELECTED HALL

For a given space with many occupants, appropriate HVAC systems are determined by
comparing heating and ventilating systems. HVAC system elements belonging to this system
should be shown on 1/50 scale ceiling plan and section. The explanations related with the
subject are given in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Distrubution scheme ( Normal floor plan )

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