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Safeguarding our future!

Robert Yates

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Unrestricted © Siemens Switzerland Ltd 2016

November 8, 2016 Robert Yates | BT CPS FS

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.



Electrical installations Research environment Behavior of people


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.)




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



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



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)

http://www.aber.ac.uk/en/media/departmental/healthsafetyenvironment/FireAlarmInvestigationProtocol.pdf

http://www.sstibbs.com/scott/2015_archives/blog_2015_083.html

http://www.campussafetymagazine.com/article/7-steps-to-reducing-false-fire-alarm













http://articles.latimes.com/2000/jan/20/news/mn-55831






Specific solutions –

Examples of challenging application areas in universities

Student accommodation Research facilities Event venues

IT and plant rooms Archives Libraries



Research facilities –

Laboratories at universities can be very diverse

Chemistry Wind science Medical lab

Engine design Technical construction Medical lab



Fire detectors for special applications

Flame

detector

Linear smoke

detector

Special

detector

for Ex-

applications

Aspirating

smoke

detection

Radio fire

detection



Fire protection for student accommodation



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



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)



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



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



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



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

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