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Safeguarding our future!
Robert Yates
siemens.com/firesafety-universities Unrestricted © Siemens Switzerland Ltd 2016
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Fires in educational facilities –
Main concerns
Keeping people safe and
meeting legal obligations Life safety and the safety of students
is the no. 1 concern
Protecting buildings, as-
sets, irreplaceable research Property losses in education due to
fire are higher than almost any other
property type
Minimizing disruptions
by avoiding false alarms Ensure trust in the fire alarms to
make sure everyone reacts properly
Protection of reputation. For a university it is essential to do everything possible to keep the risk of an incident to a minimum.
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Electrical installations Research environment Behavior of people
Fires in educational facilities –
Main sources of ignition
Careless behavior of students
(e.g. leaving cooking or candles
unattended, inappropriate use
of electrical equipment, smoking,
on-site hot works, etc.) and
arson.
Poor electrical installations, faulty
or misused electrical equipment
(e.g. overloads, damaged cables,
heaters, kitchen equipment, hair
straighteners, etc.)
Hot processes, open flames,
chemical agents in laboratories
(welding in workshops, Bunsen
burners, etc.)
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Fires in educational facilities –
Real cases
Building/asset damages
Galatasaray
University,
Turkey
Auckland
University fire,
New Zealand
University of
Nottingham,
UK
Stuttgart
University,
Germany
Fatal incidents
University of Dayton, USA
1 student died
Arson
Fire alarm system
did not work
Seton Hall University, USA
3 students died, 62 injured
Arson
Alarm was ignored due to
several recent false alarms
Historical building
severely damaged
Main archive totally
destroyed
Electrical fault in
elevator started fire
Kitchen destroyed
Students panicked
Overheated cafeteria
deep fryer started fire
Firefighters
had problems
locating fire
Multi-million pound
new chemistry lab
completely destroyed
Cause of fire still
under investigation
Entire building closed
6 institutes, ~200
employees affected
Damage: Two-digit
million range
Electrical appliance
suspected to cause fire
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False alarms in universities –
Typical sources
Steam from showers
Cooking fumes
Aerosols from hair sprays
Smoking fumes
Dust (e.g. building works)
Smoke machines
Behavior of students
(malicious actuation
of break-glass alarm
points, etc.)
Poor maintenance
of fire system
Use of inappropriate
or out-of-date fire detectors
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False alarms in universities –
Real cases
1) www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/departmental/healthsafetyenvironment/FireAlarmInvestigationProtocol.pdf
2) www.sstibbs.com/scott/2015_archives/blog_2015_083.html
3) www.campussafetymagazine.com/article/7-steps-to-reducing-false-fire-alarm
4) http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/20/news/mn-55831
Aberystwyth University –
over 400 false
alarms/year1)
Indiana University –
360 false alarms out of
686 fire runs2)
Annual fire survey
of Campus Safety
magazine – 47%
false alarms
among the four
biggest fire
safety
challenges3)
Seton University –
(false) alarm
sounded
seven times
during the week of final exams4)
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Specific solutions –
Examples of challenging application areas in universities
Student accommodation Research facilities Event venues
IT and plant rooms Archives Libraries
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Research facilities –
Laboratories at universities can be very diverse
Chemistry Wind science Medical lab
Engine design Technical construction Medical lab
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Fire detectors for special applications
Flame
detector
Linear smoke
detector
Special
detector
for Ex-
applications
Aspirating
smoke
detection
Radio fire
detection
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Fire protection for student accommodation
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ASA – The ideal solution for any fire risk
ASA neural fire detector ASA neural fire & CO detector
°C °C
CO
Fire
detection
channel
CO
poisoning
alarm
CO/thermal
ambient
condition
3 separate channels
with 3 different
handling possibilities
1
2
3
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Specific solutions –
For system integration and monitoring
Campus-wide networks based on scalable
EN54-approved system design Centralized supervision and management
(incl. Fire, Intrusion, CCTV, Access Control)
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Critical aspects Size and expandability
System reliability and availability
Requirements Scalability – performance-independent expansion
Event annunciation from entire site
Redundancy concepts to ensure maximum reliability
Solution C-WEB/SAFEDLINK network topologies for a number
of small buildings or individual large buildings
Cluster/backbone network structure for campuses
Multiple layers of redundancy (loop wiring, degrade mode,
dual connections to Ethernet backbone)
Highest safety thanks to EN54 approved fiber-optic network
Site-wide control functionality
Configurable panel views (info available where it is needed)
Networking of fire protection systems
Appropriate networks for all applications
Small Medium Large
(C-WEB/SAFEDLINK) C-WEB/LAN
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Fire safety reference –
Aydin University, Istanbul, Turkey
Challenge Large campus with a variety of building types
Migration of different systems into one single system
University was in operation during the migration,
therefore quick installation and commissioning
was very important
Solution Siemens Solution Partner infoMET Technologies installed
a Siemens Cerberus PRO fire safety system. The different
buildings are networked via a fiber-optic line and all
alarms can be monitored at each building locally as well
as at the security command center. Each building has its
own fire alarm control panel and about 450 loop devices
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Fire safety reference –
King Khalid University, Abha City, Saudi Arabia
Challenge Large university with a total campus area
of about 8.5 square kilometers
Early alarming and evacuation in case of an event
is highly important
Keeping students and staff safe and ensuring reliable
protection of many buildings, assets and research
Solution Siemens Solution Partner Secutronic installed around
38 Cerberus PRO fire control panels as well as around
25,000 detectors in 3 phases – with more phases to come.
It is the biggest installation of Cerberus PRO
in the university sector in the entire Middle East
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Tailored offering from Siemens
Manage and protect
a large campus
Minimize inconvenience
and cost from false alarms
Meet varied and
challenging applications
• Early warning with ASAtechnology
• Fast and orderly evacuation
• People-safe extinguishing
• False-alarm-free ASAtechnologyTM
• Alarm verification concept
• Siemens application expertise
• High performance cluster backbone
networking
• Open BACnet protocol for easy
integration with other systems
• Cerberus DMS management
station offering system and multi-
site monitoring and control of
multiple disciplines