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SUMMARY:Dundee Housing Development Sprinkler Activation
DESCRIPTION:Credit image Discovery Fire Sprinklers Ltd \nIntroduction \nMany thanks to Discovery Fire Sprinklers Ltd for reporting this positive news story demonstrating the benefits of installing sprinklers\,as part of a package of fire safety measures protecting our communities from fire. \nBackground \nThe foresight of Dundee City Council committing to install sprinkler systems in all new build properties since 2016 was clearly vindicated following a fire involving a ground floor terraced flat which was extinguished by the activation of the premises sprinkler system which should be applauded\, the outcome could have been so much different if sprinklers had not been installed. This major housing development was completed in October 2024 providing more than 298 affordable homes including a mix of modern flats\, detached\, and terraced homes installed with sprinklers. \nThe detail of this activation provides further evidence of the reliability and effectiveness of sprinkler systems and adds further weight to the recent report conducted by ¹Optimal Economics\, commissioned by the National Fire Chiefs Council\, National Fire Sprinkler Network into the performance\, reliability\, and effectiveness of sprinkler systems in controlling and extinguishing fires. \nThe report found that: \n1.Sprinklers are 99% efficient in extinguishing or controlling a fire.\n2. Sprinklers are 94% efficient in their ability to operate. \nThe Incident  \n\nDate of incident; November 2024.\nTOC 15:13\nIncident; Fire.\nAddress; Dundee.\nLocation of fire; Bedroom.\nAFSS; BS9251:2014.\nImpact of AFSS; Extinguished.\nNumber of sprinkler heads operated; 1.\nFire Rescue Service; Scottish Fire Rescue Service.\n\n   \n                       \nCredit image Discovery Fire Sprinklers Ltd \nSummary of Incident  \n\n3 fire appliances were mobilised to reports of a confirmed fire.\nThe seat of the fire was identified to involve the ground floor flat bedroom.\nThe fire was contained/controlled in the room of origin by the activation of 1 concealed pendent sprinkler head\nRemaining hot spots extinguished using 1 hose reel jet\nNo injuries were reported.\n20% fire damage to the room of origin with smoke staining on the walls.\nMajor protracted incident everted allowing FRS resources to be released\, redeployed to attend emergency incidents.\nEnquires are ongoing to identify the cause of the fire.\n\nThe benefit of local knowledge to isolate the sprinkler system at the conclusion of the incident was clearly demonstrated\, by coincidence as the incident was unfolding engineers representing Discovery Fire Sprinklers Ltd who installed the sprinkler system were driving pass the incident. Who had the foresight to stop and assist the fire service to identify the sprinkler isolation valve\, returning the following day to reinstate the system. \nThis incident provides further evidence that the main functional objectives of a life safety sprinkler system were achieved. \n\nThe occupants were able to leave the building in reasonable safety.\nFirefighters can operate without due risk to: –\n\n\nAssist evacuation when necessary.\nEffect rescue when necessary.\n\n\nPrevent conflagration.\n\nDesign & Install Sprinkler System Criteria \n\nBS9251:2014\nCat 2\n2 6000 litre storage Tanks\n2 1700 litre underground storage Tanks\n4 fire pump sets\n98 units – mixed dwellings\n98 ICVs\n98 Alarm systems\n1200 sprinklers\nUpgraded pump monitoring\n\nAdvice For Building Managers\, the following advice is intended for building managers\, individuals who have responsibility for fire safety within a building. It is paramount that fire protection measures in buildings can function effectively in the event of a fire. \nTo achieve this: – \n\nMaintenance\, the premises fire protection measures should be maintained periodically in accordance with the relevant standards and codes\, to ensure they are always operational and available.\nEmergency Plan\, the premises emergency plan should include Information onsite for the Fire Rescue Service to clarify the location and provision of key elements of the active fire safety systems. Allowing a robust onsite emergency response to be actioned to assist with the control of the sprinkler system at the conclusion of the fire incident.\nReinstatement of the Fire Protection Measures\, arrangements should be in place allowing the immediate reinstatement of the sprinkler system. Any delay could compromise the safety of the occupants in the event of a further fire within the building due to the sprinkler system being offline.\n\nRegulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order\, it is a requirement of the Order for the responsible person to implement the appropriate arrangements for the effective planning\, organisation\, control\, monitoring of the preventive and protective measures. \nConclusion \nThis incident provides further evidence that the main functional objectives of a life safety sprinkler system were achieved \n\nThe occupants were able to leave the building in reasonable safety\nFirefighters can operate without due risk to\n\n\nAssist evacuation when necessary\nEffect rescue when necessary\n\n\nPrevent conflagration\n\nSources/further reading.  \n\nSprinkler Saves Review 2023/2024\nSprinkler Saves Summer Update No 6\n¹Efficiency and Effectiveness of Sprinkler Systems in the United Kingdom: An Analysis from Fire Service data in support of this publication a supplementary publication Incidence of Deaths and Injuries in sprinklered buildings was published\nDiscovery Fire Sprinklers Ltd Project Specification\nSFRS Fire Sprinkler Systems\n\nIf you want to make a difference working in the fire sector\, we need your assistance…… \nTo make sprinklers the norm and not the exception – we need the evidence. Encouraging FRS and those in the sprinkler community to promote\, collate\, report sprinkler activations to Sprinkler Saves UK which will help to create a central and comprehensive record of fire incidents where sprinklers played their role in containing/controlling or extinguishing the fire. \nIf you hear of a save report it using this link. \nCredit to both Discovery Fire Sprinklers/SFRS for reporting this incident allowing the benefits of sprinklers to be reported to a wider audience raising awareness of the good work that sprinklers do and help in our continued campaign to lobby government to introduce tougher sprinkler rules making the installation and retrofitting of sprinklers mandatory in all buildings we are particularly concerned about: \n\nBuildings housing vulnerable residents\nResidential buildings\nSchools\nCarparks\nStorage and warehouses\nHospitals\n\n   
URL:https://www.sprinklersaves.co.uk/saves/dundee-housing-development-sprinkler-activation/
LOCATION:Dundee
CATEGORIES:Domestic
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SUMMARY:West End Dundee School Campus Building Sprinkler Activation
DESCRIPTION:Image credit\, Mhairi Edwards/ DC Thomson. \nThis incident reconfirms the danger of malicious acts\, arson within schools which can have a devastating impact on both educational and the community as identified within the “Impact of school fires “¹publication identifying the direct and indirect costs associated with school fires\, including economic but also educational\, social\, and emotional effects on the local community. \nThis sprinkler save provides further evidence on the benefits of sprinklers for life safety\, property protection for schools supporting the findings of the ²Sprinkler Saves UK report completed on behalf of the National Fire Chiefs Council to form part of the industry’s case to Government to make sprinklers mandatory in all new schools in England as they are in Wales and Scotland. \nIt should be understood active systems should not be viewed as an alternative to passive fire protection systems. Providing effective fire protection requires both passive and active elements working in unison and complementing the roles of one another. The use of a combined approach allows the occupants of exiting the building safely/damage to the property is minimized. \n\nDate of incident; 2 July 2023\nTime of incident; 23:28\nLocation; West End Campus Dundee\nUse of building; Educational Building\nNumber of floors; 3\nLocation of fire; External\nAutomatic Fire Suppression System (AFSS); Sprinklers\nFire Rescue Service; Scottish Fire and Rescue Service (SFRS)\n\nBackground \nThe school campus consists of two primary schools with a nursery built in 2012 over three floors with an AFSS\, installed in accordance with the standards set in the building (Scotland) regulations 2004\, unlike England where it is only an expectation for the installation of sprinklers. \nIn 2007\, the government published its Building Bulletin 100 publication stipulating how school buildings can be designed in accordance with fire safety arrangements. This included an expectation for sprinklers that. \n“All new schools will have sprinklers fitted. Any exception to this will have to be justified by demonstrating that a school is low risk and that the use of a sprinklers would not be goof value for money”. \nDespite this guidance due to a loophole designers can circumnavigate this guidance\, the outcome sprinklers not installed in a majority of schools within England. \nConstruction of the building \nThe gable wall located on the east wing of the premises up to first-floor level consisted of an external skin of brick work reverting to concrete blocks with an external render covering to roof level. \nWithin the outer wall of the premises the internal skin at ground floor level consisted of oriented strand board (OSB) nailed onto solid timber framing with rock based mineral fibre insulation enclosed with 6mm plywood sheeting with an inner double sheeting of 12.5mm fire rated plasterboard skimmed with plaster with a weather protective canopy above the entrance to the premises. \nThe incident \nUnidentified youths were identified scaling a perimeter fence\, entering the grounds of the campus. Who proceeded to position a plastic bench against the east gable end wall beneath an overhanging canopy. An inner drum from one of the playground waste bins located in the grounds of the campus along with other flammable items were placed on top of the bench and set alight. \nThe fire spread vertically into the underside of the canopy percolating into the wall cavity where the canopy was fixed to the wall at first floor level. Sixteen emergency calls were received by the Scottish Fire & Rescue Service to a fire at the school. \nAs the fire was external to the primary building the premises fire detection\, fire sprinkler system had not actuated at this time allowing the alarm to be raised via the remote alarm receiving centre. \nThree fire appliances and an aerial appliance were mobilised\, on arrival operational crews proceeded to extinguish the fire within the canopy and immediate vicinity using firefighting media\, cutting away. The incident was challenging for the crews due to the difficulty gaining access to the fire within the canopy preventing it from spreading within the building cavity. \nUnknown to fire crews the initial fire compromised the brickwork at ground floor level\, causing the brickwork to spall and crack adjacent to enclosed storeroom located under the east internal staircase within the building. \n \nRadiated heat from the brickwork ignited the inner OSB sterling board spreading to the timber frame causing the rock based mineral fibre board insulation to disintegrate. Resulting in the inner sterling board\, insulation\, and sheeting to burn away resulting in the plasterboard to fail\, collapse. The fire was contained within the timber studwork preventing horizontal fire spread. Following the failure of the internal skin plasterboard the fire spread to within the storeroom\, it is estimated this was in the region of 6 hours following the initial call to SFRS. \n           \n       \nActivation of the Premises Fire Sprinkler System \nFollowing the failure of the inner skin plasterboard within the ground floor storeroom around 6am\, fire\, heat and smoke percolated into the storeroom activating the pendent sprinkler head generating a sprinkler fire alarm signal. (activation of a sprinkler rotary gong) \nAlerting onsite fire crews to a further seat of fire within the building\, which was contained\, controlled\, and believed to of extinguished the fire by the activation of one sprinkler head\, working in unison with the passive fire safety measure fire door to the storeroom\, which was in the closed position\, preventing the fire from spreading into the adjoining area and extending into the main campus building. \nWhen you compare this to a school fire in Yatton Bristol on the 29 May 2023 where sprinklers were not fitted\, the outcome on this occasion was that the school lost 6 classrooms and over 100 pupils were displaced to surrounding schools. Temporary classrooms have now been provided allowing all year groups to be taught on site from September 2023. The rebuild of the infant school is currently being planned and is expected to take at least a year. \n\nImage credit Avon FRS\n\nSchool fires\, in particular arson\, can have a devastating impact on both a school and the community. If it was not for the prompt actions of the SFRS\, installation of the premises sprinkler system the outcome of this incident could have been so much different.\nThe installation of a sprinkler system as part of a package of fire safety measures can\n\n\nContain\, control\, or even extinguish a property fire even where the parameters of the system have been exceeded beyond expected scope.\nRaise the alarm ensuring an emergency response.\n\n\nThe likelihood of a total loss of property and school resource is dramatically decreased.\n\n\nSignificantly less impact on the community using the school facilities.\nReduces the damage that can be caused to a property of fire and reduce the risk to life.\n\n\nBusiness continuity\, due to the fire damage contained in the vicinity of the east stairwell\, the campus was able to open as planned for the new term in August 2023 with repair costs put into 6 figures.\nThis incident Cleary demonstrated the benefits of sprinklers within schools supporting the findings of the Sprinkler saves UK report completed on behalf of the National Fire Chiefs Council to form part of the industry’s case to Government to make sprinklers Mandatory in all new schools in England as they are in Wales and Scotland.\n\nThe danger of Arson within schools highlighted once again following the fire at Blatchington Mill School Hove on the 17 January 2023. It is reported on the BBC website that a girl\, 16 is being held on suspicion of arson with fire damage sustained to a section of the ground floor of the premises. \nHighlighting once again that sprinklers should be mandatory for all new build schools within England following the lead of Scotland\, Wales. \nReferences \n\nSprinkler Saves Review 2022/2023\nSprinkler Saves Autumn update 2023\nBAFSA Information File 1 Sprinklers in Schools\nPrimary school commercial kitchen sprinkler activation Wales\nReporting a sprinkler save\nBBC website\n\n¹The Impact of school fires: A study of the wider economic and social impacts on schools and the Local community. LGA Research Report \n² Sprinkler Saves UK report completed on behalf of the National Fire Chiefs to form part of the industry’s case to government to make sprinklers mandatory in all new schools in England \nOur thanks to both Neil Kerr Fire Safety Officer\, SFRS for reporting this incident to Sprinkler Saves Uk demonstrating the benefits of reporting sprinkler activations. \nIt makes a difference if you hear of a save report it!!!!!!!!!!!!
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LOCATION:Dundee
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