Over­view

The clas­si­fic­a­tion of a build­ing as a high-rise is defined in the con­struc­tion reg­u­la­tions at state level. In case of a fire, the height of a build­ing is cru­cial for evac­u­ation pur­poses, as the turntable lad­ders of the fire bri­gade gen­er­ally reach up to a max­imum height of 22 m. For this reason the le­gis­lator has stip­u­lated spe­cial fire pro­tec­tion pre­cau­tions for high-rise build­ings through guidelines and or­din­ances. Fire risks exist in nearly all areas and on all levels, as well as in un­der­ground car parks or in com­mon rooms, of­fice space and con­fer­ence fa­cil­it­ies. When ana­lyz­ing the risks of a high-rise build­ing, the range of dif­fer­ent ma­ter­i­als used in the build­ing and the av­er­age dens­ity of people must be taken into ac­count in ad­di­tion to the con­struc­tion height and the mul­ti­tude of dif­fer­ent usage areas. Also bear in mind that the es­cape routes in a high-rise build­ing can be very long. The con­sequences of a fire are often dev­ast­at­ing, as es­pe­cially in high-rises, fires can spread very quickly and un­con­trolled to other floors via flashover. The safety of people on the higher floors is par­tic­u­larly vul­ner­able here as es­cape and res­cue routes may be blocked. If a fire breaks out in a HVACR or server room, this may not present an im­me­di­ate risk for people in every case, but their abil­ity to work may be af­fected without air con­di­tion­ing and vent­il­a­tion sys­tems or without ac­cess to water, the el­ev­ator sys­tems or heat­ing. Fail­ure of the IT net­work due to a fire may have an even worse ef­fect on the op­er­a­tional ca­pa­city of a com­pany. Flames, smoke, gas emis­sions, heat – fire has many fa­cets. Minimax has the right fire de­tect­ors for the vari­ous areas within an of­fice and ad­min­is­trat­ive build­ing. 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 an of­fice and ad­min­is­trat­ive build­ing. 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 ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems, Oxeo inert gas ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems, halo­car­bon ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems and KS 2000 kit­chen pro­tec­tion ex­tin­guish­ing sys­tems are used in of­fice and ad­min­is­trat­ive build­ings. 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 of­fice and ad­min­is­trat­ive build­ings.

Protected Area

1

Archives

2

Stor­age rooms

3

Waste dis­posal

4

c

5

Util­ity rooms

6

Emer­gency power gen­er­at­ors

7

Atria

8

Park­ing areas

9

Server rooms

10

Of­fices

11

Riser ducts

1. 1

   Archives

2. 2

   Stor­age rooms

3. 3

   Waste dis­posal

4. 4

   c

5. 5

   Util­ity rooms

6. 6

   Emer­gency power gen­er­at­ors

7. 7

   Atria

8. 8

   Park­ing areas

9. 9

   Server rooms

10. 10

    Of­fices

11. 11

    Riser ducts