The Garage at the Saratoga Building is a fourteen story high-rise building of pre-cast concrete
and fire resistive construction and brick faced exterior
walls. The facility contains service and retail
space on the first floor, parking on floors 1-11, and
offices on floors 12-14. Facilities Management
occupies the 14th floor and the 13th floor is occupied by
Procurement and other administrative offices. Pharmacy
School including the Maryland Poison Control Center occupies
the 12th floor.
The building is totally protected with a wet pipe sprinkler
system on the 1st floor service and retail areas and
office floors 12-14 and a dry pipe system on the parking
garage floors 1-11. The riser for the dry
system is wet to each floor with a dry pipe valve on
each floor of the SE stairwell. The air compressor
for the dry system is in the fire pump room. There
is a 750 gpm fire pump located in the fire pump room
directly to the west of the fire command center. The fire department
connection is located on the East (Arch Street) side
of the building next to the garage entrance. Knox
FDC caps have been installed on the fire department
connection to prevent vandalism.
Portable fire extinguisher's are located
throughout the facility.
A complete fire alarm system consisting of manual pull
stations, voice audible/visible alarms, sprinkler water flow
and valve supervisory devices and duct smoke detectors
(supervisory) has been installed and is interconnected
to the Pine Street Police Station.
A Fire Command Center (FCC) is located in the Ground
Floor lobby behind the guard desk. The FCC contains
the following equipment:
1) Firefighter phone system with handsets.
2) Building PA System via the voice evacuation alarm system.
3) A dedicated outside telephone line not within the UMB system.
4) Main fire alarm control panel.
5) Elevator status panel.
6) Smoke control system controls.
7) Status of emergency generator annunciation display.
8) Building plans.
Firefighter telephone jacks are located
within each stairway landing and each elevator lobby.
Exits directly to the outside of the building from
the upper floors through enclosed pressurized stairwells
are located on the North and South ends of the building.
There is also an enclosed stairwell between the Ground
and 1st floors in the NE corner of the building.
Fire department suppression equipment has access to
the North and East sides of the structure and limited
access on the South side.
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.
A key for the Knox FDC caps is
also located in the Knox Box.
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 Parking Garage (Storage) and Business
occupancy. |
