A comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings

Smoke is recognized as the main factor of fatality when fire occurred in a building. Thus, smoke management in the building is of paramount importance in order to achieve a tenable indoor environment in the event of fire other than ensuring passive means of escapes to the place of safety. In hospita...

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Main Authors:	Ab Ghani, Mohd Zaid, Aripin, Srazali
Format:	Article
Language:	English English
Published:	Malaysian Institute Of Planners 2018
Subjects:	NA Architecture NA4170 Public buildings
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spelling	iium-691152019-10-14T01:17:43Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/69115/ A comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings Ab Ghani, Mohd Zaid Aripin, Srazali NA Architecture NA4170 Public buildings Smoke is recognized as the main factor of fatality when fire occurred in a building. Thus, smoke management in the building is of paramount importance in order to achieve a tenable indoor environment in the event of fire other than ensuring passive means of escapes to the place of safety. In hospital building, where patients have limited movements, natural smoke ventilation through windows is the most common form of smoke control design. Nevertheless, inappropriate design of natural smoke ventilation through window may result to poor smoke air flow contributing to unwanted toxic gases inhaled by occupants that lead to fatalities in the event of fire. This study aims to analyse the design requirements and specifications of natural smoke ventilation system in buildings by exploring local and other prominent building regulations as well as code of practices around some countries. The study found that smoke ventilation system (natural and mechanical) is usually applied in windowless building, basement and in large open spaces. The natural smoke ventilation system employs smoke vents (gravity vents) located at a higher level in the roof or at the ceiling level. The regulations state that the size of smoke vents for effective natural smoke ventilation is in between 2% to 3% of the floor areas. Most regulations would allow openable windows for smoke ventilation in the event of fire. © 2018 by MIP. Malaysian Institute Of Planners 2018 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/69115/1/69115_A%20comparative%20review%20of%20design%20requirements.pdf application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/69115/2/69115_A%20comparative%20review%20of%20design%20requirements_SCOPUS.pdf Ab Ghani, Mohd Zaid and Aripin, Srazali (2018) A comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings. Planning Malaysia, 16 (2). pp. 334-344. ISSN 1675-6215 E-ISSN 0128-0945 http://www.planningmalaysia.org/index.php/pmj/article/view/487/397
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spellingShingle	NA Architecture NA4170 Public buildings Ab Ghani, Mohd Zaid Aripin, Srazali A comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings
description	Smoke is recognized as the main factor of fatality when fire occurred in a building. Thus, smoke management in the building is of paramount importance in order to achieve a tenable indoor environment in the event of fire other than ensuring passive means of escapes to the place of safety. In hospital building, where patients have limited movements, natural smoke ventilation through windows is the most common form of smoke control design. Nevertheless, inappropriate design of natural smoke ventilation through window may result to poor smoke air flow contributing to unwanted toxic gases inhaled by occupants that lead to fatalities in the event of fire. This study aims to analyse the design requirements and specifications of natural smoke ventilation system in buildings by exploring local and other prominent building regulations as well as code of practices around some countries. The study found that smoke ventilation system (natural and mechanical) is usually applied in windowless building, basement and in large open spaces. The natural smoke ventilation system employs smoke vents (gravity vents) located at a higher level in the roof or at the ceiling level. The regulations state that the size of smoke vents for effective natural smoke ventilation is in between 2% to 3% of the floor areas. Most regulations would allow openable windows for smoke ventilation in the event of fire. © 2018 by MIP.
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title	A comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings
title_short	A comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings
title_full	A comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings
title_fullStr	A comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings
title_full_unstemmed	A comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings
title_sort	comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings
publisher	Malaysian Institute Of Planners
publishDate	2018
url	http://irep.iium.edu.my/69115/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/69115/ http://irep.iium.edu.my/69115/1/69115_A%20comparative%20review%20of%20design%20requirements.pdf http://irep.iium.edu.my/69115/2/69115_A%20comparative%20review%20of%20design%20requirements_SCOPUS.pdf
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A comparative review of design requirements for natural smoke ventilation in hospital buildings

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