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Fire And Life Safety Analysis: Robert E Kennedy Library, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Campus, Christopher Olmstead
Fire And Life Safety Analysis: Robert E Kennedy Library, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo Campus, Christopher Olmstead
Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports
This report provides a fire safety analysis on the Robert E. Kennedy Library located on the Cal Poly University campus San Luis Obispo, California. In the course of this analysis, a prescriptive and performance-based approached was used. The goal was to review and obtain an understanding of the features of the building’s design and use that provide fire safety. During the analysis, areas of deficiency will be identified. Recommendations will be made based on the analysis and the nature of the deficiencies.
The overall goal is to abide by the NPFA Life Safety standard: (1) Protection of occupants not intimate …
Fire Protection And Life Safety Analysis Of A Chicago Hotel, Thomas Hampton
Fire Protection And Life Safety Analysis Of A Chicago Hotel, Thomas Hampton
Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports
The following report contains an analysis of the life safety and fire protection features of a Chicago Hotel. The report is intended to meet the requirements for the Culminating Experience of the Cal Poly Master of Science Fire Protection Engineering Program.
The Chicago Hotel building chosen for the analysis is a mixed-use 7-story hotel. On the 1st, 2nd, and 7th floors of the building are spaces for mercantile and restaurant tenants as well as other spaces necessary for the operation of the building such as back of house space for the hotel, storage, employee locker rooms, hotel and retail lobbies, …
Second Baptist Church, Cypress Campus, David Kalinec
Second Baptist Church, Cypress Campus, David Kalinec
Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports
This report was created as part of the Master of Science Fire Protection Engineering degree program at California Polytechnic State University at San Luis Obispo. This project summarized the covered subjects during the course of each quarter of the program. The site chosen for this project is Second Baptist Church, Cypress Campus, located in Cypress, TX. This building was chosen because Churches are mixed use buildings that include assembly occupancies and large occupant loads.
A prescriptive-based code evaluation was performed on the building according to the 2012 editions of the international building code and fire code, adopted at the time …
New Stanford Hospital, Fpe 2020 Student
New Stanford Hospital, Fpe 2020 Student
Fire Protection Engineering: Culminating Experience Project Reports
This report is the compiled culminating project for the Fire Protection Engineering Master’s Program at Cal Poly, SLO. Addressed herein is the fire protection and life safety approach for the New Stanford Hospital in Palo Alto, California in accordance with the 2012 NFPA 101 – Life Safety Code and the 2016 California Building and Fire Codes. This includes review of building occupancies, construction type, fire-resistive ratings, means of egress, and fire protection systems. The objective of this report is to review the impact of major fire scenarios on life, property, and operations.
The New Stanford Hospital is a Type IA …