West Building
The
School of Social Work consists of two separate fire
resistive constructed buildings. The west building,
which is the original school, is three storied with
a basement and houses offices and one Class "C" place
of assembly. The east building was built in 1983
and is a five storied structure connected to the
west building horizontally on two floors with a
bridge. The structures are separated with a fire
wall and fire-rated doors held open with electro-magnetic
hold open devices which close the doors when the
fire alarm system in the east building is activated.
The east structure houses offices, classrooms, faculty
and student lounges, T.V. production studio and
a Learning Resource Center (Library).
East Building
Both facilities are equipped
with an interior fire alarm system consisting of
manual pull stations, smoke detectors, heat
detectors, duct detectors and audible/visual
devices which transmit a signal to the Pine Street
Police Station. The two systems are separate from
each other although they activate at the same
time.
The east building is totally sprinkled
including standpipes with fire department hose valves in
the stairways and corridors. The sprinkler water flow
and valve supervisory switches are interconnected with
this buildings fire alarm system. Any sprinkler
control valve which is located above a suspended ceiling
is identified with the proper signage directly below.
Sprinklers and standpipes are boosted by a 750 gpm fire
pump located in the 1st floor mechanical area. The
fire department connections are located on the North and
East sides of the building. Knox FDC caps are
installed on fire department connections to prevent
vandalism.
Portable fire extinguisher's are located
throughout both facilities.
Automatic smoke vents are located in the
roof within the stairs of the east building, and on the
north, east and south sides of the east building.
The east building is equipped with an
emergency electrical generator which supplies power to
selected corridor, and stair lights, the fire alarm
system, and fire pump.
Each building has two enclosed
stairways which provide sufficient exit capacity.
A Knox Box has been installed next to the fire
command center with keys for elevators, mechanical areas,
electric areas and fire alarm panels in all three
buildings to be used by the
fire department as needed.
A key for the Knox FDC caps is also located in
the Knox Box.
These buildings are classified
as Business occupancies. The auditorium within
the west building falls within the Place of Assembly
classification.
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