A Fire Partition Room means a space or room which is separated by a fire barrier or partition, such as a fire wall or fire door.
The Fire partition room is designed to have the following functions.
- Fire containment. You may not be able to control a fire, but you can install barriers that slow it down and help keep it contained. This will give emergency personnel time to respond and save lives before the entire building burns down.
- Life safety for occupants of impacted spaces or adjacent spaces in case of a fire or explosion in an area adjacent to your space (think sprinklers). The FPR provides an additional level of protection from smoke spread from adjacent areas and should allow occupants time to exit safely if there is a fire/explosion within your own space or another area near yours that has not been separated with an FPR system installed correctly
Fire partition rooms are designed to contain a fire within a certain time period, typically 30 or 60 minutes.
This allows people on one side of the wall to escape even if there is a fire in the other space. Fire partition doors will also help prevent fire spread in the event of an attack by containing it within the affected room.
Fire partition rooms will keep smoke from spreading between spaces, thus allowing people on one side of the wall to escape even if there is a fire in the other space.
Smoke curtains are a very effective way to keep the spread of smoke from one space to another. They can be used for:
- Separating rooms: Smoke curtains can completely separate rooms, allowing people on one side of the wall to escape even if there is a fire in the other space.
- Sealing off stairwells: Because smoke rises, smoke curtains should be installed at the head of each flight of stairs so that they seal off air movement between floors.
- Sealing corridors: If your building has multiple corridors or hallways connecting different areas together, you may want to consider installing a smoke curtain between each hallway or corridor so that it prevents fires from spreading between these areas.
- Sealing elevator shafts: Fire doors at every floor level should also have an opening at least 4” open at all times for proper ventilation and safety reasons (elevators need fresh air). This opening must be protected with manual shutters or automatic dampers during an alarm condition (i.e., when there is smoke inside). If this isn’t done correctly, then there could potentially be serious consequences because noxious gases may build up in unventilated spaces such as elevator shafts where occupants might pass through them while going down stairs during an evacuation (in order not get stuck inside).
Fire partition doors will also help to prevent fire spread in the event of a fire by containing it. Fire partition rooms are designed to contain a fire within a certain time period, typically 30 or 60 minutes.
Fire partition rooms can be critical when a building is under attack. They are designed to contain a fire within a certain time period, typically 30 or 60 minutes. Fire partition rooms will keep smoke from spreading between spaces, thus allowing people on one side of the wall to escape even if there is a fire in the other space.
Conclusion
It’s important to note that fire partition rooms are not a substitute for smoke alarms. They should be used in conjunction with a fire alarm system, which is triggered when the temperature reaches a certain level.
