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VESDA
Atrium Fire Protection
®
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Increased use of Atria within buildings
• Atria add space and light
to facilities
• Attractive architectural
feature
• Useful link to multiple
occupancy facilities
• Often main escape route
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Challenges for Atria
• Can move buildings outside scope of fire codes
• Smoke stratification
• Smoke dilution
• Solar radiation
• Changes in airflow
• Maintenance access
• Building movement
• Environmental obstructions
• People gathering, egress issues
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Potential Scale of Atria
• Ceiling height of over 60m
• Large open areas exceeding 10,000m2 (110,000ft2)
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Solar Radiation & Stratification
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Environmental Obstructions
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Access problems
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Design requirements
• Immunity to – building movement– direct sunlight– false alarms due to site features
• Ability to overcome stratification and smoke dilution
• No labour intensive maintenance
• Multiple alarm outputs for staged warning
• Flexible design to provide protection where needed
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Detection solution comparisons
Point Detectors
• Difficult to mount in atria
• Effected by stratification
• Effected by dilution
• Major maintenance issues
• High cost of ownership
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Detection solutioncomparisons
Beams
• Beams at lower than 600 mm from ceiling level require separation 12.5% of height (BS 5839). Solution becomes very expensive.
• False alarms due to building movement & seasonal decorations
• Affected by stratification
• Affected by dilution
• Susceptible to damage from seasonal decorations
• Access problems for maintenance
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Detector solutionscomparison VESDA
VESDA
• Vertically as well as horizontal sampling pipe within architectural structure
• Installed at ceiling level or at different heights
• Not affected by building movement or seasonal decorations
• Overcomes smoke stratification and dilution
• System design to accommodate environmental conditions
• Low cost of maintenance
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Detector solutionscomparison VESDA
• Sampling pipes can be installed along:
- structural beams
- vertical air handling columns
- roof structure
- the wall cavity (concealed)
- vertical advertisement columns
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Recap
• Atria increasing feature of modern buildings
• Complex environmental situations
• Standard methods of detection don’t work well
• Stable detection with ease of maintenance required
• Multiple alarm settings for early fire detection as well as orderly evacuation to minimise business interruption
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VESDA
Case Study
Gaylord Texan Resort &
Convention Centre, USA
®
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Gaylord Texan Resort & Convention Centre
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Building Description
• 1511 guest rooms, more than 37,180 m2 (400,000ft2) of pre-function, meeting and exhibition space
• Atrium with a 64m (210ft) high glass domed ceiling. The size of the atrium area alone is approximately 8,100 m2
(87,000 ft2)
• Four cupola exhaust fans installed on the ceiling structure with a total ventilation capacity of nearly 100 m3/s (3,500 ft3/s), approx 60 (2,100) to 70 m3/s (2,500 ft3/s) of fresh air is supplied into the atrium.
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Project Considerations
Attributes Performance Based Design
Smoke Control, Detection & Tenability
Designed to meet performance requirements in terms of size and type of fires, detection response time for 5 MW fire (peak) within 5 minutes from fire start
Technology Fit VESDA air sampling system was assessed in direct comparison with other technologies such as beam detectors
Unique Architecture Considered stratification, structure, fire locations, HVAC operation, etc.
Innovation Aesthetics, VESDA provides unobtrusive detection, easy maintenance
Performance Assessment
Successful in-situ smoke tests to verify designs and prove fire modelling.
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Benefit of computeraided modelling
• System can be modelled with fire in various locations
• System can be modelled with a range of fuel types with different fire characteristics
• Results can be verified with actual smoke tests in accordance with acceptable test methods
• Impact from environmental conditions can be evaluated
• Airflow characteristics can be modelled to ensure an optimal placement of detection points
• System performance can be quantitatively assessed to meet design criteria
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VESDA Design
• Pipe work
– 32 sampling holes per VESDA zone
– Placed 32-60 m (105ft – 197ft) above floor in atrium
• Alarm Functions– Alert: Supervisory
signal in the fire
panel, investigation – Action: Actuates
the smoke control
process– Fire 1: Activates
the building fire alarm
system through the
fire panel– Fire 2: Evacuation
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Performance: Modelling
• Environmental conditions• Detection requirements• Technology used• Different fire scenarios• Detection within 5 mins
5 MW fire, 45 to 60 °C, 34m to 60m(113 to 140 °F, 112ft to 197ft)
500 KW fire, 25 to 40°C, 34m to 60m(77 to 104°F, 112ft to 197ft)
5MW fire model - Press to start video
500KW fire model - Press to start video
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Modelling Results
• VESDA detected smoke in all simulated stratification
conditions within 5 minutes from ignition of a 5 MW fire• In fact, much smaller fires (0.5MW) were detected within
the required detection time of 5 minutes
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CSIRO developed test
• Test method as developed by CSIRO, suitable for the assessment of Early Warning Detection Systems in large open spaces
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• Test underway
CSIRO developed test
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Performance: In-situ Tests
• Fire started at centre of atrium (under Zone 7)
• Detection Time < 5 minutes
Zone
#
6 3’ 05” 3’ 15” 3’ 29” 0.12787 3’ 56” 5’ 25” 5’ 48” 0.18595 4’ 52” 6’ 51” 7’ 35” 0.11943 7’ 37” 10’ 20” 12’ 33” 0.05444 8’ 36” 9’ 55” 11’ 04” 0.08818 10’ 39” 14’ 36” NA 0.0291
Alert Action Fire 1Peak
Smoke Level (%/ft)
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Performance test across zones
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Technology comparison
KPIs VESDA Beam Detector
Early Fire Detection Yes No
Affected by smoke stratification layers No Yes
Staged alarms for good emergency response plan
Yes No
False alarms due to movement of building structure
No Yes
Affected by sunlight (Glass domed ceiling) No Yes
False alarms due to dust contamination No Yes
False alarms due to obstruction of beam path No Yes
Access for maintenance and testing Easy Difficult and costly
Aesthetics Unobtrusive Devices highly visible
Cost of total system ownership Lower Higher
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Conclusion
• VESDA successfully provided early fire detection in this grand atrium
• Performance Based Design methodology was applied to meet the fire safety system design requirements
• Computer modelling proved the system design in a difficult environment of high airflows, and where the effects of stratification were highly variable
• In-situ smoke tests confirmed the accuracy of the VESDA modelling