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Chapter 2 Fire Protection Design |
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1.0
Purpose
This document
outlines the considerations that need to be made to incorporate contemporary
fire-protection standards, while accommodating the unique features of the
accelerator, experimental apparatus, and a variety of associated workplace
environments at Jefferson Lab.
2.0
Scope
This document describes personnel responsibilities,
building fire-safety features, construction practices, fire protection systems
selection, system acceptance, fire protection water supply, existing
facilities, hazard prioritizations and mitigation, fire damage, actual loss
determination, and loss reporting.
New facilities or major renovation of
existing facilities requires a review of any existing fire-protection systems
and features within the affected area by Facilities Management. The design-review process includes reviews by
a Fire
Protection Engineer ([FPE] subcontractor) early in the design phase. These
include reviews at the 30-, 60-, and 90‑percent design phase. These reviews may be conducted on a less
frequent basis, depending upon the size of the design project. Facilities
Management maintains all relevant files for each project, including design
criteria and rationale. Design reviews are also done for projects performed by
in-house staff, with peer reviews performed for each design.
Additional details regarding the design of new facilities are found in ES&H Manual Chapter 3110,
Facility Design and Modification Review.
Equivalent means
of Fire Protection and Exemption from prescriptive code requirements and DOE
Orders are sometime warranted. This document is used to identify existing
equivalencies and exemptions granted by DOE.
3.0
Responsibilities
Note: Management authority may be delegated to a
task-qualified TJNAF employee at the discretion of the responsible manager.
3.1
Fire Protection Engineer (FPE;
synonymous with subcontractor)
· performs
building design evaluations
· reviews
and approves proposed projects and designs at multiple stages in the design
process for compliance with fire protection code requirements and site-specific
fire protection requirements
3.2
Supervisors, Building Managers and Area Work Coordinators
·
monitor
the activities of personnel within affected areas
· prevent any alteration to building
construction features not coordinated with facilities management
3.3
ES&H Professionals
· ensure that space use is consistent with
the fire safety design
·
provide
guidance to line management on limitations of potential space use
· participate, as required, in the planning
processes for renovation and new construction
3.4
Facilities Management Staff
·
ensure fire protection water supply is adequate for design
·
incorporate
all applicable codes, standard requirements, equivalencies, and exemptions into
designs for new construction and renovation projects
4.0
Fire Safety
Design Considerations
4.1
Building Design
Evaluation
Building
designs are evaluated for compliance with the traditional construction codes
and standards. Additional considerations
include:
· International
Code Council Inc. International Building Codes
· Site-specific
requirements for detection, suppression, life safety, and underground-water
distribution described in Chapter 1, Site-specific
Requirements of this Manual.
· Building
features that provide for Highly Protected Risk status or the best-protected
class of industrial risks. This status is achieved through incorporation of
design features contained in FM Global Property Loss Prevention Data Sheets.
·
DOE STANDARD 1066-16 Fire Protection.
4.2
Fire Protection Water
Supply
The
City of Newport News provides water for the TJNAF site. The three water supply
meter vaults at Jefferson Lab are:
· a
4-inch water meter on Hogan Drive (north of the facility),
· an
8-inch water meter on Jefferson Avenue (west of the facility), and
· a
12-inch water meter on Canon Boulevard (south-east of the facility).
With
the exception of the Support Service Center (SSC) Building area, the site
hydrant and fire suppression systems are continuously connected to the Canon
Boulevard and Jefferson Avenue underground 24-inch concrete city mains. This
supply redundancy provides a high level of confidence in a continuous water
supply for most of the site. The SSC area is served by the separate municipal
water supply.
4.3
Equivalencies and
Exemptions
4.3.1 Equivalency: Common Path of
Travel for Injector Area, Approved April 8, 1998 to exceed the maximum 100
ft distance for common path of travel (in an area protected by automatic
sprinkler systems) by 15 ft for the injector area of the tunnel enclosure
4.3.2 Equivalency: Manual Pull Stations, Beam Enclosure,
Approval letter from Barbara Morgan to Bill Rust dated April 21, 1995,
permission to deviate from stations @ 200-foot intervals to stations @ 600-foot
intervals
4.3.3
Equivalency: Fire Sprinkler
Protection for Experimental Halls A,B,C, Approval
Letter: September 27, 2010
Compensatory
Action Required
· Implement a comprehensive and rigorous Combustible
Control Program: On
February 8, 2011, Chapter 11, Combustible
Loading, was created (and added to this manual) to develop a method to
actively control the accumulation of transient combustible material in the Experimental
Halls and the Accelerator Tunnel. Weekly inspections are conducted and
documented (both electronically and in hard copy) by the FPE.
· Install flammable gas detectors at locations where
flammable gases are used: Currently in the process of evaluating the most
up-to-date VESDA gas detection equipment to install in line of the existing
VESDA piping.
· Maintain existing active and passive fire protection
features, more specifically, fire barriers, fire doors, sprinkler systems,
VESDA, fire alarm and smoke removal systems: Inspections are conducted per NFPA
throughout the site by outside contractors.
· Continue to have a qualified FPE serve on the
experimental planning committee: Both the Fire
Protection Program Manager and the Fire Protection Engineer review all
operational safety procedures as well as serve on the experimental planning
committee.
4.3.4 Equivalency: Request (NFPA 101) Equivalency, Accelerator
Tunnel Ramps, Approval Letter: February 4, 2008
Compensatory
Action Required
·
Proposed design
and facility operations shall include additional engineered and administrative safety
controls listed below.
Engineered
o
Fire Detection
system for early warning: VESDA has been
installed in the tunnel extension
o
Fire Suppression
System: Dry sprinkler system has been installed
throughout the tunnel extension
o
Non-slip surface
on the ramp: Concrete floor was left in rough surface
condition
o
Lifting eyes in the
ceiling above the ramp to aid in material handling along ramp: Lifting eyes have been installed throughout
tunnel extension
o
Emergency Lighting: Emergency lighting has been installed per
NFPA requirements
Administrative
o
Restricted access
to able-bodied personnel: CANS will be
installed for access control
o
Posted exit signs: Exit signs are installed throughout the
tunnel per NFPA
o
Personnel training: SAF-113KD (Hall D Conduct of Operations)
training incorporates Hall D and the tunnel extension into its program
o
Task hazard
analyses of activities in the tunnel extension: Task hazard analyses are conducted and
approved before work moves forward in the tunnel
·
A change in the
facility operations from the proposed scope of work voids the equivalency
approval.
No plans at the present time to alter
the scope of work
·
A change in the
hazard classification within the specific area voids the equivalency. No changes in the hazard classification in
the specific area anticipated
· Future revisions of the facility FHAs are to maintain
a copy of the TJSO equivalency approval documentation and supporting JSA
information within an attachment.
All FHAs from this point forward will have equivalency documentation
incorporated into the FHA package.
5.0
References
· National
Fire Protection Association (NFPA) Codes and Standards, Current Editions
· International
Building Codes
· DOE
STANDARD 1066-2016, Fire Protection
6.0
Revision History
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0.4 |
triennial review; added – ‘subcontractor’ to the
FPE reference; Note: to section 3.0; removed ‘Provide further evaluation…’
bullet from 4.3.3; updated 5.0; made general edits and format updates |
05.19.2022 |
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0.3 |
periodic review; removed reference to Chapter 6730, Water Quality
Management (no longer exists) |
06.02.2016 |
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0.2 |
added
equivalencies paragraphs 4.3.1. and 4.3.2; updated links |
09.17.2013 |
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0.1 |
added “Equivalencies and Exemptions”
considerations |
11.21.2011 |
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initial document |
09.28.2009 |
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05.19.2022 |
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