Fire Protection Design

Fire protection is an integral and critical part of building engineering design in construction. To effectively plan for fire prevention, management and extinguishing systems requires an integrated approach. A building’s use, occupancy, footprint and other services must be analysed in their totality to ultimately save lives, save property and preserve continuity. Fire protection systems typically follow a general process of detection, alarm and notification and suppression.

All components of modern fire-protection systems need to work together to effectively detect, contain, control/extinguish a fire in its early stages – and for people to survive during the fire. A fire design service provider would typically provide:

• Sprinkler protection design
• Hydrant system design
• Water and mist system design
• Dry riser and wet riser design
• Fire alarm and detection system design

What We Provide

XS CAD provides the following range of fire systems engineering design services:

• Sprinkler and hydrant design and drawings
• Pipework design and drawings
• Hydraulic calculations
• Fire detection and alarm design and drawings
• Design basis reports
• Schedules and specifications

Design Stages We Cover

We provide comprehensive design support for all stages of the design process, from concept, schematic, design development, tender to construction stages.
We provide drawings for all stages of the fire design process, including:

• Concept
• Tender
• Contract
• Coordination
• Approval

Software We Use

XS CAD’s fire design engineers use hydraulic calculation software HYENA, AutoCAD and Revit to create fire design drawings. We also utilise the latest technology to communicate and share files using web-based online collaboration systems, such as BIM 360 Design, as well as sophisticated, web-based markup tools.

Customers

We provide fire design services to:

• Multi-disciplinary design consultants
• Fire design engineers
• Sustainability consultants
• Specialist fire protection design consultants
• MEP contractors and MEP trades
• Facilities management firms

Portfolio

Our portfolio of past projects involving fire design services include:

• Fire design drawings for a rehabilitation complex
• Fire design drawings of a group of residential towers
• Fire design drawings for a refurbished and refitted office incorporating existing super structure, new structural additions
• Fire design drawings for a newly built hospital
• Fire design drawings for commercial buildings