James Brady

Director

� About Innovation Fire Engineering

� Prescriptive Care Home Design

� Alternative Care Home Design

� Advantages of the alternative approach

� Examples of actual Care Homes

� University of Leeds

� West Yorkshire Fire ServiceService

� Fire Engineering Consultancy

� Formation of Innovation Fire Engineering

� Specialist in fire engineering

� Primary focus is delivering customer delivering customer satisfaction

� Delivering excellence

� Delivering cost saving

� Delivering Innovation

Prescriptive Care Home DesignPrescriptive Care Home Design

� Progressive Horizontal Evacuation

� Each Storey divided

� Each protected area – two exits

� Not through ancillary accommodation

� Maximum travel distances 9m, 18m and 64m

� Maximum 10 beds

� Sufficient floor area

� L1 Fire Alarm

Bedrooms in FR� Bedrooms in FR

� Bedrooms one bed

� FR –ancillary accommodation

� Laundry, day rooms etc.

� Bedroom – free swing� Bedroom – free swing

� Circulation Spaces –hold open

� Bedrooms – no self closers

� More than 10 bedrooms allowed

� Bedrooms more than one bed

� Management procedures

� Stay put policy

� L5 fire alarm system

Smoke control in the � Smoke control in the corridors

� Dry riser

� Suppression

� Reduction in cross corridor doors – cost saving and excellence in the design

Furniture within the corridor – excellence in � Furniture within the corridor – excellence in the design

� Reduction of fire doors & fire resistance – cost saving

� Extended travel distances – excellence in the design

� Reduced staff wage cost

� Bedroom as inner roomsrooms

� Utilising lift as means of escape

� Overall design flexibility

� Higher level of fire safety

� Alternative based on stay put policy

� Meeting function � Meeting function requirement of Building Regulations

� Flexibility in the design

� Provides cost saving

� Delivers excellence to your clientsyour clients

� High level of fire safety

� We provide a fee initial appraisal of project

� Contact details – James Brady

� Tel: 0113 2373028

� Mob: 07766554436

� Email: james.brady@innovationfireengineering.co.uk

� Website: www.innovationfireengineering.co.uk