Describe strategies of design for fire and safety engineering.

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Part 1 (40%)

You are involved in design of an Engineering Innovation Centre for the University of Central Lancashire (UCLan), EIC, [www.uclan.ac.uk/eic]. Construction of the EIC, seven-story building, started in April 2017 and it is planned to open this building in the academic year 2018/19. It is designed as low carbon emissions building. Evaluate possible building construction methods to achieve Building Research Establishment Environmental Assessment Method (BREEAM) rating at least “Outstanding”. Compare what is required for “Outstanding” and “Excellent” ratings.

Describe strategies of design for fire and safety engineering.

Make formal conclusion and recommendations for development of sustainable construction nationally and internationally.

Part 2 (20%)

Analyse a case study of fire in the built environment in the country, which is given to you by email from the module tutor on Friday 27th October 2017, on the basis of information available on public domain. Your fire case study should be relatively new and took place in the last 5 years.

You are recommended to use any large- and medium-scale fire and explosion cases. You are expected to demonstrate your analytical skills applied to fire-related accidents in the built environment.

Provide your opinion on lessons learned from your case study and your recommendations how to prevent possibilities of the similar fires in future. Make formal conclusion for your case study.

Part 3 (40%)

Solve the following fire modelling problems:

1. Explain nomenclature of halon and freon systems (use examples of monobromotrifluoromethane and trichlorotrifluoroethane). Discuss environmental impacts of halons and reasons for halon replacement in fire protection engineering industry under the Montreal Protocol. Give your opinion whether you think it was right decision to do halon replacement nationally and internationally.

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