Question: With reference to BS 9999, discuss management levels and related issues in occupancies: Office.

1. Principle of fire engineering: Ringway Care Home

a) Discuss the possible reasons why the original fire engineer selected a fire engineered design over a code-based design in Ringway Care Home.

Guide: 400 words

b) BS 7974 lists the advantages and disadvantages of a fire safety engineering (FSE) approach. Select one advantage and one disadvantage and critically evaluate your selected advantage against your selected disadvantage in applying a FSE approach to the Ringway Care Home.

Guide: 400 words

2. Principle of fire engineering: Ringway Care Home

a) Explain key points of a fully fire engineered design within current regulatory framework, addressing the likely input from various participants of a Qualitative Design Review and how that might they impact upon the Quantitative Analysis.

Guide: Total 600 words

b) The building end user is required to provide appropriate management to ensure the effectiveness of the Fire Engineered Design. What input should the end user have at the design stage according to the following guidance documents?

i) CIBSE Guide E

ii) BS 9999

iii) BS 7974

Guide: 500 words

c) When conducting the initial Fire Safety Risk Assessment upon occupation by relevant persons, what information should be available regarding the features of the FSE design?

Guide: 250 words

3. Ringway Care Home

a) Identify the active and passive fire safety measures proposed within Ringway Fire Strategy and discuss their intended impact on fire spread beyond the enclosure of origin.

b) Using the probabilities given in table 13, draw an event tree for the following events.

i) Fire starts in first floor dining room

ii) AFD operates or not

iii) Sprinklers operate or not

iv) Fire door blocked or not

v) Self-closer operates or not

Note: Ringway: Fire Strategy, Page 33

c) From the event tree what is:

i) Probability of fire spread owing to a blocked open fire door

ii) Total probability that a fire remains in the room of origin?

Note: Ringway: Fire Strategy, Table 13 Page 33

Guide: 400 words in total

4. Business Impact Analysis: Ringway Care Home

a) Explain the principles of a Business Impact Analysis and the areas of business that should be considered.

b) Analyse suitability of the impact analysis provided in the strategy document for Ringway Care Home

c) Using the example template overleaf below, conduct a Business Impact Analysis on a fire starting and developing unchecked in resident bedroom G25.

Guide: 750 words

5. ASET - RSET: Ringway Care Home

a) Draw an ASET vs RSET timeline to represent figures given contained within the Ringway Fire Strategy.

b) Propose a reasonable, estimated value for ASET and justify your assumptions, including what tenable limits you would consider appropriate.

c) Utilise PD 7974-6 to draw a timeline with the maximum possible RSET.

d) Present what you consider to be reasonable figures for RSET components and a rationale to either support or contradict the figures proposed within the strategy.

e) What would you consider a reasonable safety margin?

Guide: 400 words in total.

6. Timeline: Ringway Care Home

Given an Alarm Receiving Centre processing time of 60 seconds and a travelling time of 5 minutes using CIBSE Guide E, calculate a reasonable Fire Service Intervention Time for a fire in LG 15.

Assuming that:

i) Two appliances arrive together, with sufficient personnel to make an initial attack on the fire using tank supplies, with a total capacity of 3,600 litres

ii) All local FRS safety protocols can be met

a) Using your FSIT and your suggested ASET / RSET from Question 4.1 describe, from your perspective, the likely sequence of events, discussing any potential areas of conflict.

b) Propose solutions to any problems identified.

Guide: 400 words in total

7. ASET - RSET: Ringway Care Home

Referring to limits of tenability, discuss what effect a properly designed smoke heat exhaust ventilation systems (SHEVS) system could have on an ASET.

Give two examples other than (Ringway Care Home) of where such effect might be utilised as part of an FSE strategy. Support your answer with an illustrative ASET vs RSET timeline diagram.

Guide: 250 words

8. Ringway Care Home

ADB states that reliance on an unrealistic or unsustainable management regime cannot be considered to have met the requirements of Building Regulations. With reference to BS 9999, discuss management levels and related issues in occupancies:

a) Office

b) High rise residential

c) Care home

Ringway Care Home:

d) Discuss the management strategy proposed in Section 8 of Ringway Fire Strategy.

Guide: 650 words in total

9. Ringway Care Home

Discuss what areas of Ringway Fire Strategy might have been offered up as subjects for constructive pre-consultation and what positive influence might the FRS or Building Control have been able to exert at this stage.

Guide: 400 words

10. Exercise Ringway Care Home