SYNOPSIS

Underground Car Park Smoke Control Design
Modern fire of synthetic nature generates large amount of smoke particles on top of high heat release rate. Car fire in underground car park should it happened deals not only with synthetic fire but also potential explosive environment. Vehicle fire in enclosed environment posed a problem for evacuation as well as search and rescue operation not to mentioned location of fire source of origin with rapid heat and smoke propagation. This training session look at the danger of car fire in underground basement car park and implication for evacuation, the design Codes and Standards, UBBL requirements, appropriate smoke extract systems, advantage and limitation of types of smoke attract systems and compatibility between smoke extract system and sprinkler systems, full-scale fire investigation on jet fan.

For underground car park smoke extract system, the objective and fundamentals should be clearly defined in order to achieve the desired result of live safety for both public and firefighters.
All systems designed should also have clear criteria for validation to ensure system function to meet design objectives. Paper will also look at design principle of “Ventilation”, “Smoke Extraction”, “Dilution” and “Smoke Layers”.

All design consultants, smoke extract design engineers, system suppliers are encourage attending.  


SPEAKER

Mr. Hao-giang Tay FIFireE
Deputy President
The Institution of Fire Engineers (UK) Malaysia Branch

Mr. H.G Tay is a qualified and experienced Fire Engineer. He is a graduate of Heriot-Watt University and a graduate of University of Edinburgh, Scotland with a Master of Science Degree in Fire Safety Engineering.

As the principal fire consultant of Fire Safety Engineering firm, he has vast knowledge and over 34 years of experience in fire engineering. His firm provides advice and consultancy service to corporate clients with a holistic approach to sustainable fire safety engineering and business continuity. He is also involved in performance-based fire safety design. His specialties lies in practical modern fire engineering concept and design in terms of fire risk assessment and management; fire protection engineering, life safety and mass evacuation design; mitigation of fire hazards and fire risks, emergency response planning and management.

Mr. HG Tay is the Deputy President of The Institution of Fire Engineers Malaysia Branch, Past International President and a member of the Board of Directors. He is an active member of LinkedIn professional network promoting the Institution as well as sharing fire safety engineering knowledge and experience with all fire professionals in the world.

Actively involved in Malaysian Standards development for more than two decades, his technical committee has developed series of performance-based National Standards for the Malaysian fire industry. He co-authored the technical reference book “Guide to Fire Protection in Malaysia” which is an explanatory guide to Malaysian Building Regulation. Guide to Fire Protection in Malaysia is now an official guide for fire officers, professional engineers and architects, developers, contractors, building owners, students, etc.

On the personal level, he has conducted many studies to establish the way forward for sustainable fire engineering concept and published these findings. He is one of the panel CPD lecturers for Fire and Rescue Department Malaysia, The Institution of Architects Malaysia as well as The Institution of Engineers Malaysia. He has also been invited for IEM and ACEM seminars and conferences.

He has been invited as an International speaker at Fire conferences in countries such as United States of America, Australia, Hong Kong, Singapore, Philippines, India, Taiwan, United Kingdom, Scotland, South Africa, Netherland, Republic of Ireland and U.A.E. His latest paper “Integrated Fire Safety Engineering – The Way Forward” was delivered at the Europe Fire Advisory Forum 2013, Prague, Republic of Czechoslovakia.

He is not only a learned fire engineering professional but also a good lecturer and presenter.