Date
6-2013
Degree Name
MS in Fire Protection Engineering
College
College of Engineering
Advisor
Fred Mowrer and Chris Pascual
Abstract
The fire and life safety systems of the Providence Pavilion, a four-story addition to the Providence Medford Medical Center in Medford, Oregon, are examined for compliance with applicable design and construction codes and standards and are found to comply with codes and conform to standards. The prescriptive requirements for occupancy classification, construction type, structural fire protection, egress systems, fire alarms, and fire protection are reviewed. Three different fire scenarios are developed and are then employed to study the fire and life safety systems’ performance using fire and egress modeling tools and simulations. Using this performance-based approach, the fire and life safety systems are shown to perform satisfactorily in the three scenarios that are presented.
https://digitalcommons.calpoly.edu/fpe_rpt/7
Project Presentation
DOI
10.15368/fperpt.2013.4