Buildings are not developed with the thought that the structure is going to catch fire; nevertheless as many circumstances have shown, neglecting to accommodate enough fire protection protocols could result in disastrous repercussions.

Protection protocols, for example fire exits and fire sprinklers are  vital components to incorporate in a building design, so as to ascertain that the occupants within will be safe in the event of a fire emergency.

Whether for a new building project or when it comes to retrofitting components within an already existing building, it can be handled with the help of fire protection BIM services. This will ensure that all necessary fire safety elements are embedded adequately.

Effective fire safety

In case you have to ascertain that a building’s fire safety is accurately designed then you should check the layout, size, average rate of occupancy of the building. These elements will all have an impact on the amount of time residents can stay safe before the fire services can arrive at the building, and thus will decide the alternatives you choose to diminish human risk. Major specifications for fire safety will depend on restraining the flame size, how fast and spread-out the flames will be, and leveraging easy to find, high-capacity escape routes. Components like these are vital in ensuring occupants can leave buildings rapidly and safely while keeping the structure of the building as undamaged as possible. The final green light for design is given in terms of pertinent international and local fire safety codes.

Fire Protection BIM Services

MEP services can be delivered through the use of BIM clash coordination, ensuring that the building’s fire safety efficiency is bolstered. This will allow you to analyze the most effective positioning of fire safety components and devices to ensure not only occupant safety but also the highest possible cost-efficiency.  Sprinkler system modeling services under BIM are vital to plan the ideal positioning of sprinklers and can also be ‘taught’ the manner in which actual fires occur and the manner in which building structures behave in reaction.

As you may have read numerous times before, leveraging BIM heightens collaboration between all of the different stakeholders concerned with a project, such as engineers, inspectors, site inspectors, and building managers. It goes to show that using BIM allows for transparent handovers through the supply chain lifecycle, and also ascertain that all trades involved understand how the various disciplines interact within a structure.

Fire safety does not just focus on the design and construction phase of a building, it needs to be focused on throughout building’s the life cycle. By leveraging 3D BIM models everyone who needs this data will gain access to it, whenever needed and this data can then be shared with new management or fire safety staff as needed.

It cannot be denied that fire protection BIM services can help towards the creation of more informed and safer building structures.