The Medical School Teaching Facility (MSTF)
is an eleven storied with basement fire resistive building.
The structure houses offices, laboratories, a media
center, conference rooms, and a Class B Place of Assembly.
The ground level houses an animal holding facility.
Mechanical spaces are located in the basement and eleventh
floors. A licensed radiological waste incinerator is
located on the tenth floor and roof.
The building is equipped with an interior high-rise
package fire alarm
system which was installed in 2006 consisting of manual pull stations, smoke detectors,
heat detectors (supervisory), duct detectors
(supervisory) and voice audible/visual devices which transmits a signal
to the Pine Street Police Station.
A Fire Command Center (FCC) is located in the PED
Level lobby at the South end. 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 panel and controls.
7) Status of emergency generator annunciation display.
8) Building plans.
Firefighter telephone jacks are located
within each stairway landing and each elevator lobby.
A combination standpipe/wet
pipe sprinkler system protects the entire facility except
the loading dock. The loading dock is protected
with a dry pipe sprinkler system. Water flow alarms
and valve supervisory switches interconnected to the
interior fire alarm system. The loading dock on the
west side is protected with a dry pipe sprinkler system
connected to the building sprinkler system. The sprinkler
system is supplied by a 1000 gpm fire pump located in
the basement. Fire department 2 1/2 inch standpipe valves
are located in each of four stairwell landings.
The fire department connection is located on Baltimore
Street near the NE corner of the building. Knox
FDC caps have been installed on the fire department
connection to prevent vandalism.
Portable fire extinguisher's are located
throughout the facility.
Corridors on levels two through nine are separated with
smoke barrier doors held open with electromagnetic hold
open devices hooded into the building fire alarm system.
These doors close automatically when the fire alarm
activates.
Fire department suppression equipment has access on all
four sides of the building.
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.
This building is a Business Occupancy, Place of Assembly,
and Industrial Occupancy. |
