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Fire safety

You must design buildings in ways that allows them to provide appropriate levels of fire safety. They must also lower the dangers from smoke and heat. The main goal here is to reduce the potential for injury and worse. You must do this within acceptable limits to keep everyone safe.

Another vital detail is to safeguard contents. As much of the structure as possible has to keep on functioning once a fire is over. In addition, you will need to be able to repair everything. If there are adjoining properties, you must also take them into consideration.

Restraining fires when they start

The capacity of the building’s design to restrain a fire when it starts is essential to safeguarding it. This will also protect the people inside and everything that surrounds it. The tactic is the one that legislation covers most clearly. Moreover, insurance companies concern themselves with it.

Containment here needs to work by addressing smoke and heat risks. You can design active and passive fire containment measures. Active ones are those you activate manually or automatically. Examples include smoke detectors, extinguishers, and fire hydrants. With passive measures, they deal with the nature of the building envelope, subdivision, and structure. These are the elements of the construction that limit smoke and fire spread. This includes fire proof walls, ceilings and doors.

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At Coffey Architects, we believe there is wonderful architectural diversity to be found wherever we go. Our team has had the pleasure of working all over the world. While doing this, they can get inspiration simply by taking a look around them. There is always something new to find.

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