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Fire Engineering Sports and Entertainment Buro Happold The sports and entertainment sector comprises a multitude of venues including racecourses, stadia and arenas. While each venue is unique, with client requirements varying from ultimate flexibility to the best for a particular sports discipline, there exist common themes in the fire safety design. Providing adequate escape for large numbers of people is the primary challenge for the fire engineer in the design of sports and entertainment venues. The traditional approach of enclosed stairs and corridors needs to be balanced with open plan hospitality and corporate spaces. Working closely with architects and creative use of compartmentation can allow escape routes to appear open while ensuring safe and efficient egress. Our fire strategy is typically based on an assessment of likely fire risk and evacuation periods. Elements such as fire load control, strategic location of fire separating construction and smoke management are brought together in a coherent, unobtrusive manner. This produces a simple, robust strategy for each building, tailored to its specific needs. Refining the design of structural fire protection is a common challenge for stadia - structural fire engineering techniques assess the potential for exposed steel structure to survive design fire scenarios without applied fire protection, increasing cost efficiency. Case Study : Silverstone Pit Lane Image: Populous The fire strategy for the Silverstone Pit Lane and Paddock facilities provides flexibility to the client, allowing multiple uses. The evacuation strategy uses the length of the building to offer escape into adjacent compartments and the paddock behind the building without relying upon the pit lane. Event continuity is addressed by the race control centre being designed to operate independently, allowing circuit operations to continue in the event of an incident within the building. Emirates Stadium, Arsenal Football Club London, UK Architect: Populous Image: Simon Warren The O2 Arena, London, UK Architect: Populous Image: Buro Happold/Adam Wilson London 2012 Stadium, London, UK Architect: Populous Image: ODA 14
Fire Engineering Transport Buro Happold Rail & bus stations and other transport hub buildings provide vital access and flow to transport systems. By their very nature they are often large interconnected spaces with significant numbers of public occupants and varied uses. Fire strategies for transport buildings often need to incorporate innovative solutions tailored to specific needs of the client and end users. By combining our expertise in fire safety design in large and complex buildings Buro Happold Fire Engineering offer a unique solution which is not only cost effective and efficient, but also provides a high level of safety for occupants and staff. Evacuation/people movement modelling is used to verify escape designs and help provide a bespoke and rational solution Fire and smoke modelling allows us to ensure that occupants can escape in tenable conditions Structural fire modelling ensures that premature collapse of structure does not occur and helps to achieve cost effective structural fire resistance Our approach is to provide a detailed service, to ensure that the fire strategy is fully integrated with the building management regime. As part of this, we provide comprehensive advice on fire safety management and carry out risk assessments for the completed building. Case Study : Haramain High Speed Rail The Haramain High-Speed Railway includes 4 stations, connecting Makkah, Madinah, Jeddah and the developing King Abdullah Economic City. Our fire strategies were developed in parallel, using a template approach, with similar areas of fire engineering, code compliance and calculation methodologies. This greatly simplified the complex approval process, allowing a technique or approach to be developed and approved at a conceptual level, and then applied with confidence to all four stations. Heathrow Multi Storey Car Park Heathrow, UK Architect: Aedas Image: Laing O’Rourke Slough Bus Station, Slough, UK Architect: Bblur Architecture Image: Matthew Clayton TAG McLaren Airport, Farnborough, UK Architect: Bblur Image: Buro Happold/Adam Wilson 15
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