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Offline jasper

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another listed building
« on: August 20, 2008, 01:26:32 PM »
Hi all, I have a question regarding another grade 1 listed building, basically the building I am looking at is stone constructed monument type building with basement ground and first floors (empty ground floor, art galleries on first and second), beam detection to open ground floor area and point detection to the rest of the building.
My concerns are that there are two staircases from ground floor up which are located at opposite sides of the open ground floor, there are no fire doors at ground floor level but solid oak doors at 1st floor and 2nd floors with a travel distance of 25.8m from first to ground and from the second floor another 15m down the stairs and 5m from the furthest point on the second floor, this takes us over the 45m travel distance with no real separation of the two staircases.
Each of the upper floors has balconies which go all the was round the perimeter where turntable laddder rescue could be possible.
Sorry if it is abit long winded but I am struggling with what to do and am trying to paint a clear picture

Offline jokar

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another listed building
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2008, 01:43:10 PM »
You can not think of rescue as part of an evacuation plan.  It is unlikely, dependent on what is lisetd, that you will get permission to undertake structural work.  I would contact the local planner and English Heritage for their advice on this structure.

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« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2008, 06:01:35 PM »
Hi jasper
If the ground floor is empty and the upper floors are art galleries, if you have sensitive detection and almost zero fire loading is there a problem? Why not do a little fire modelling based on the fuel available and voluminous smoke reservoirs and see what you find?