Advanced manufacturing research facility

Context

Advanced manufacturing facilities combine a manufacturing hall, laboratories, offices, loading docks and dangerous goods storage inside one envelope. Each function brings its own hazards and code pathway, and the interfaces between them carry most of the fire engineering difficulty.

My role

I was the fire safety engineer preparing substantial sections of the Fire Engineering Report and coordinating it through internal technical review.

Approach

• Fire engineering provisions for the complex interfaces: fire shutters, compartmentation, façade details and smoke control.
• Assessment of manufacturing hall and dangerous goods hazards within the performance framework.
• Drawing review, mark-ups and information requests coordinated with the architect and wider design team.
• Document-wide alignment checks between the project description, fire strategy and Performance Solutions.

Outcome

A coordinated Fire Engineering Report covering every function of the facility and the interfaces between them.