Considerations for coordinating and interfacing fire protection and life safety systems

Abstract

Fire protection and life safety strategies for modern buildings and facilities are developed to accomplish specific goals and objectives as agreed to by the relevant stakeholders. Effective implementation ofsuch strategies requires not only sound design and installation of the relevant building systems and features, but also the proper integration and coordination of such systems and features. The overall process for properly integrating and coordinating the applicablesystems often requires significant effort and focus as thevarious systems are often designedand installed by different engineering and contracting disciplines, and approved by differentenforcement agencies. As such, it is critical thatthe building system integration and coordination process be appropriately considered throughout the design, installation, commissioning (Cx), and acceptance testing process, as well as during the life-cycle maintenance of the systems.