AE 3531 - Fire Suppression Systems Design

• Analyze a building type to determine the proper fire protection system selection
• Analyze water supply flow pressures and needs of a project.
• Describe fire chemistry and discuss the effects fires have had on buildings and human life
• Discuss principles of smoke, heat and flame detection and methods of signaling warning alarms to building occupants
• Discuss architectural and engineering building design eleements and materials of construction as they relate to fire suppression systems for buildings
• Apply fluid mechanics design methods, based on Hazen-Williams formulation and other general energy thoeries, to calculate fire suppression design problems based on example piping layouts
• Design and layout an automatic fire suppression system for a commercial building
• Design and size the fire suppression pump system for a commercial building

• Basic fire protection systems, piping sizing calculations

• Fire chemistry
• History of fire in buildings
• Types of fire suppression systems
• Materials and equipment
• Planning
• Sprinkler layout
• Hangers and hanging
• Job site surveys and coordination
• Water supplies and underground piping
• Hydraulic calculations
• Modeling program use
• Pumps and pumping systems
• Standpipe systems
• Design calculations for complex systems

• Field surveys and piping 
• Water supply testing & selection of type of fire suppression for building occupancy
• Fire pump analysis using a variable speed pump
• Sprinkler head flow analysis
• Analysis of water flow in an existing sprinkler system
• Predicting flow rates and pressure in an existing system
• Water supply flow test and analysis
• Fire suppression system design project calculations and specs