Over­view

In­ad­equate fire pro­tec­tion in shop­ping malls and other re­tail out­lets may have dev­ast­at­ing ef­fects for cus­tom­ers and em­ploy­ees in case of a fire. The use of Minimax fire pro­tec­tion tech­no­logy sub­stan­tially con­trib­utes to the avoid­ance of such scen­arios. The re­quire­ments for fire pro­tec­tion in sales out­lets are di­verse - there­fore solu­tions are needed which are tailored to the spe­cific areas to be pro­tec­ted. Sales out­lets take dif­fer­ent forms: from com­plex shop­ping cen­ters with many dif­fer­ent re­tail out­lets, res­taur­ants and ser­vice pro­viders through spe­cial­ist re­tail and DIY stores, often with ground floor level func­tional areas, to small boutique shops. Ir­re­spect­ive of the type of re­tail out­let, all have pub­licly ac­cess­ible areas with fluc­tu­at­ing flows of people. The risks that may lead to a fire in the re­tail out­let are man­i­fold. Care­less smoking, for ex­ample, may have dire con­sequences. Sales out­lets also typ­ic­ally op­er­ate light­ing sys­tems or demon­stra­tion devices for long hours on end. This con­stant load may lead to tech­nical de­fects and over­heat­ing, which can then trig­ger a fire. In ad­di­tion, com­plex fa­cil­it­ies in tech­nical aux­il­i­ary spaces, e.g. op­er­a­tion and con­trol rooms, re­quire spe­cial com­pli­ance in re­gard to fire pro­tec­tion. Flames, smoke, gas emis­sions, heat – fire has many fa­cets. Minimax has the right fire de­tect­ors for the vari­ous areas within sales out­lets. Their sig­nals con­verge in the fire de­tec­tion and ex­tin­guish­ing con­trol panel, which is­sues an alarm to the people at risk and the fire bri­gade. In ad­di­tion, the Minimax panel mon­it­ors the in­stalled fire pro­tec­tion sys­tem for proper func­tion­ing and elec­tric­ally trig­gers the ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems that are not equipped with their own trig­ger­ing ele­ments, e.g. sprink­ler sys­tems. A sprink­ler sys­tem en­sures over­all build­ing pro­tec­tion in a sales out­let. Minimax of­fers a broad range of sprink­ler types and spe­cial sprink­lers that allow for ideal ad­apt­a­tion of the sprink­ler sys­tem to the re­spect­ive in­stall­a­tion situ­ation in the vari­ous pro­tec­ted areas. Areas with spe­cial fire risks or de­ploy­ment con­di­tions re­quire - either in ad­di­tion to or in­stead of the sprink­ler sys­tem - a tailored volume or local pro­tec­tion sys­tem. For this reason, de­luge sys­tems, Mini­fog water mist fire ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems, Oxeo inert gas fire ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems and MX 1230 fire ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems are used in sales out­lets. The alarm and con­di­tion re­ports is­sued by the fire pro­tec­tion sys­tems in­stalled by Minimax, as well as by other sup­pli­ers, can be visu­al­ized on screens by the In­veron haz­ard man­age­ment sys­tem. Struc­tural fire pro­tec­tion, as well as tech­nical sys­tems by Minimax Mo­bile Ser­vices, such as fire ex­tin­guish­ers, wall hy­drants and smoke and heat ex­trac­tion sys­tems, com­plete fire pro­tec­tion in sales out­lets.

Protected Area

1

Waste dis­posal

2

Stor­age rooms

3

Park­ing areas

4

Emer­gency power gen­er­at­ors

5

Util­ity rooms

6

Server rooms

7

Con­trol sta­tions

8

c

9

Of­fices

1. 1

   Waste dis­posal

2. 2

   Stor­age rooms

3. 3

   Park­ing areas

4. 4

   Emer­gency power gen­er­at­ors

5. 5

   Util­ity rooms

6. 6

   Server rooms

7. 7

   Con­trol sta­tions

8. 8

   c

9. 9

   Of­fices