Fire Protection, Life Safety and Physical Security

What you'll learn

• Identify the building and fire codes and standards that govern data centres in Canada, classify occupancies, and apply fire compartmentation, fire-stopping, power disconnection and egress requirements
• Explain fire chemistry, heat release rate and t-squared growth, estimate fuel loads and flashover, describe smoke and corrosion damage, and carry out a fire risk assessment
• Explain fire development and detector types, adjust detection for high airflow, design aspirating smoke detection, and define staged alarm responses and system integration
• Describe fire alarm system architecture and signals, design audible and visible notification for noisy data halls, coordinate alarm and clean agent release sequences, and prepare a fire safety plan
• Compare wet, dry and pre-action sprinklers and clean agent and water mist systems, calculate clean agent quantities, and apply enclosure integrity, pressure relief and safety requirements
• Calculate sprinkler discharge, friction loss and system demand for a pre-action design area, compare demand with a water supply curve, and select a fire pump
• Explain lithium-ion thermal runaway, off-gas and explosion hazards, the relevant standards and tests, and the layers of protection for battery rooms and rack-level batteries
• Explain how electrical faults cause fires, interpret thermographic surveys, reduce arc flash incident energy, and provide and separate life safety power
• Design layered physical security with access control, mantraps, surveillance, perimeter protection and procedures, and explain the audits customers rely on
• Engineer access control, video and intrusion detection systems, analyse security logs, and manage the cyber-physical risks of networked building systems
• Plan inspection, testing and maintenance programs, relate test intervals to reliability, conduct integrated testing, and manage impairments and hot work
• Apply performance-based design with design fire scenarios and ASET and RSET analysis, and develop an integrated fire, life safety and security strategy for a data centre