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| Citation | Chow, Wan-Ki. “Fire Aspects for Artrium Buildings in Hong Kong.” In Improved Firesafety Systems in Developing Countries. Proceedings of the 7th International Research and Training Seminar on Regional Development Planning for Disaster Prevention, 17 October 1994, Tokyo, Japan, 99-109. UNCRD Proceedings Series, no. 7. Nagoya, Japan: United Nations Centre for Regional Development; Tokyo Fire Department, 1994. | ||
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| Year | 1994 | ||
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| Material Type | Conference Paper | ||
| Features | 23 references; 1 table; 8 figures; 18 formulas | ||
| Pages | p. 99-109 | ||
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BUILDINGS 08.10.01 HONG KONG, CHINA 01.04.04 | ||
| Abstract | By surveying the general shape of the atrium buildings in Hong Kong, it is found that using the volume of the atrium hall only to set up regulation is not good enough. Two major problems encountered by professionals in designing fire protection systems for atrium buildings are reviewed. They are the design of smoke control systems based on the volume of the atrium hall; and the installation of sprinkler at high headroom atrium. A time constant instead of the space volume is proposed to specify the smoke filling time for the atrium to account for different shapes. Thermal sensitivity of sprinkler heads installed in the atrium hall with smoke spreading out from an adjacent room is discussed. The interaction of the water spray with the smoke layer induced by a fire in a room adjacent to the atrium at high level is briefly reviewed. Collaboration works with fire research laboratories equipped with large full-scale burning facilities are recommended. --author's abstract | ||
| Control No. | PS 07i | ||