The Pearl Street
garage is a seven level pre-cast open air parking facility
of fire resistive construction. The structure straddles
Pearl Street with elevated parking on both sides. The
first level, west side houses a parking office (for
the garage), elevator lobby, mechanical equipment rooms,
and part of the University's Operations and Maintenance
shops. The second level, West side houses the UMB
Parking Offices and additional O& M shops. The below grade
level and first level, east side houses the balance of the
O&M Maintenance shops. A loading dock is located at the
North-East end of the first level as part of the O&M shops.
The balance of the building is for parking.
There are two enclosed two hour fire rated stairways
which provide adequate exiting from all levels of the
building.
The garage has an interior fire alarm system consisting
of manual pull stations and heat detectors at the elevator
lobbies, smoke detectors, duct detectors, and water
flow switches which transmit a signal to the Pine Street
Police Station.
All occupied areas are protected with a wet pipe
sprinkler system. Water flow alarms and valve
supervisory devices are interconnected with the fire
alarm system. There are four dry standpipes with fire
department hose valves located on each level. Fire
department connections are located on the Pearl Street
side of the West Building and the Pearl Street side of
both buildings. Knox FDC caps have been installed
on the fire department connections to prevent vandalism.
Portable fire extinguisher's are located throughout
the facility.
An emergency electrical generator supplies power to
selected lighting and the fire alarm system.
A Knox Box has been installed next
to the annunciator panel with keys for elevators, mechanical areas,
electric areas and fire alarm panels to be used by the
fire department as needed.
A Knox Box has also been installed
on the exterior of the building at the Fayette Street
vehicle entrance with a key for the roll up door when
the garage is closed. A key for the Knox FDC caps
has also been located in the Knox Box.
This building is classified as a Storage, Business and
Industrial Occupancy. |
