Consultancy Services: Fire
Client: CDHB
Christchurch Hospital consisting of Parkside, Riverside, Clinical Services, Oncology and Food Services buildings require significant upgrading to comply with the current NZ Building Code requirements. This predominantly involves smoke detectors and an analogue alarms network to also meet preferred staged evacuation objectives. Christchurch Hospital is the largest Hospital facility in New Zealand and as such the fire upgrade work involved is quite extensive.
Cosgroves has completed site surveys, and compiled the contract documentation plus budget estimates for this work. This includes both active and passive fire protection elements. Cosgroves is currently acting as the contract engineers for the first phase of the improvement work, namely the installation of the analogue addressable network throughout. This is in conjunction with three other major Departmental upgrades that also involve Cosgroves engineers.
Key Design Features
- Design and documentation of full analogue alarms network system including smoke detectors, EWIS, RDU's, graphic displays, and intelligent evacuation sequencing for all interconnected buildings,
- As contract engineers staging work to suit budget limits and operational constraints,
- Establishing an acceptable evacuation scheme for a multi-use, multi-level, high public occupancy, facility housing seriously ill patients in a 24 hour per day, 7 days per week facility,
- Organising cost budgets and support information to address the complete fire protection upgrade requirements.
