Fire Safety 101
Essential fire safety knowledge for Architects, Project Managers and Strata Managers
Tue
27
Tue 27 May 5:30 PM
Online via Zoom
General Admission
120 Mins
May
A recent survey of council building inspections over the past year showed that 90 per cent of multi-storey apartment buildings in Victoria failed to meet fire safety standards. In NSW, 60% of apartment buildings were found to be non-compliant.
Apartment buildings are mostly run by strata committees, or self-managed by owners who have no knowledge of fire safety compliance or who they need to seek advice from.
Inevitably, the responsibility falls on the architect or building project manager to organise and facilitate fire safety systems for entire buildings, even when they may only be looking to obtain approval for a single unit fit.
Without appropriate training and expertise, architects are left as quasi " fire systems compliance advisor" and take on all of the risk.
Mecca, in conjunction with Focused Fire Engineering is presenting a webinar looking at these issues and how architects and project managers can deal with the complexities of fire related compliance in these situations.
Some of the areas that will be looked at include -
Speakers
Sheran Khan
Focused Fire Engineering
Sheran is a Fire Safety Engineer at Focused Fire with experience in Essential Safety Measures (ESM) maintenance and working on site witnessing full-function fire tests. Sheeran’s experience in building compliance and Fire Safety Engineering includes commercial offices, education, manufacturing and storage, retail, residential, health facilities and rail.
Pav Sivakumar
Focused Fire Engineering
Pav is a fire Safety Engineer at Focussed Fire assisting clients in developing alternative building solutions. She has extensive project experience around Australia on all building types - aged care, low and high rise residential/office/retail towers and warehouses developments.
Apartment buildings are mostly run by strata committees, or self-managed by owners who have no knowledge of fire safety compliance or who they need to seek advice from.
Inevitably, the responsibility falls on the architect or building project manager to organise and facilitate fire safety systems for entire buildings, even when they may only be looking to obtain approval for a single unit fit.
Without appropriate training and expertise, architects are left as quasi " fire systems compliance advisor" and take on all of the risk.
Mecca, in conjunction with Focused Fire Engineering is presenting a webinar looking at these issues and how architects and project managers can deal with the complexities of fire related compliance in these situations.
Some of the areas that will be looked at include -
- Pre - design considerations for fire safety
- Clarification of consultants - some do reports, some do certification, others do installation and checking of systems, some do performance solutions - who does what - who do architects call?
- Dealing with Strata in terms of fire issues – responsibilities
- Overview of materials and selection
- Passive fire measures for refurbishment of existing sole occupancy units
- Basics of Annual Fire Safety Statements
- NCC clauses
- Steps for architects to follow when a refurbishment of a single unit triggers fire safety protection for the entire building - obtaining Fire Safety statement etc.
- Role of Rural Fire Safety inspection required for Class 2.
Speakers
Sheran Khan
Focused Fire Engineering
Sheran is a Fire Safety Engineer at Focused Fire with experience in Essential Safety Measures (ESM) maintenance and working on site witnessing full-function fire tests. Sheeran’s experience in building compliance and Fire Safety Engineering includes commercial offices, education, manufacturing and storage, retail, residential, health facilities and rail.
Pav Sivakumar
Focused Fire Engineering
Pav is a fire Safety Engineer at Focussed Fire assisting clients in developing alternative building solutions. She has extensive project experience around Australia on all building types - aged care, low and high rise residential/office/retail towers and warehouses developments.
May