The Dental
School High Rise is a ten story building of protected
steel and fire resistive construction and brick faced
exterior walls. The facility contains offices,
classrooms, labs, clinics, and conference rooms for
the Dental
School.
The building is totally protected with standpipes and
a wet pipe sprinkler system except for the loading dock
which has a dry pipe system. Fire department hose
valves are located in both stairwells. There are
also hose valve connections in the exit corridors
approximately half-way between the stairwells. The
fire department sprinkler connection is located on the
southeast corner of the building on Baltimore Street.
Knox FDC caps have been installed on the fire department
connections to prevent vandalism.
Portable fire extinguisher's are
located throughout the facility.
A complete fire alarm system consisting of manual
pull stations, voice audible/visual alarms, sprinkler
water flow and valve supervisory devices, beam smoke
detectors (supervisory) and duct
smoke detectors (supervisory) has been installed and
is interconnected to the Pine Street Police Station.
A fire command center is located in the main lobby
next to the elevators just inside the main entrance.
The fire alarm control panel, an annunciator panel,
elevator status panel, smoke control panel, generator
panel, firefighter phone handsets and fire shutter
status panels are located in the fire command center.
Firefighter telephone jacks are located
within each stairway landing and each elevator lobby.
Both exit stairwells are pressurized. Both
atriums are equipped with engineered smoke evacuation
systems. Windows on the lower level and first
floors of the South Atrium open to provide make-up air
for the smoke evacuation system. Windows on the
East side of the 4th floor in the North Atrium open as
well. The smoke evacuation system operates upon
activation of any sprinkler flow switch in the building
or beam smoke detectors in the atriums. Overhead
fire shutters are installed on South atrium openings on
floors 2-4 and close automatically upon activation of
the building fire alarm system. Shutters need to
be manually reset following a fire alarm activation.
A key is in the Knox Box to reset the shutters.
Key slots are located on floors 2-4 across from the SW
exit stairwell. Each shutter has to be reset
individually.
The building is equipped with an emergency generator
that powers all life safety systems in the event of loss
of power.
There are 2-two hour rated stairwells in the building
with adequate exiting capacity. One is at the
North end and one on the West side near the South
Atrium. Exits directly to the outside of the building are
located on the North, West, and South ends of the
building (main entrance) on the first and ground
floors.
Fire department suppression equipment has access to
the North, East and South sides of the structure on
Baltimore, Fayette and Arch Streets.
A Knox Box has been installed
in the fire command center with keys for elevators, mechanical areas,
electric areas and fire alarm panels to be used by the
fire department as needed.
Access by persons with disabilities is via the main
entrance located on the South side of the building
in the center.
This building is a Business, Assembly, and Ambulatory
Health Care occupancy. |
