Understanding and planning for fire alarm systems

This course is essential entrance to understand fire alarm system

In this course the student will learn what is the fire alarm system and , steps of design (considerations of design , preparation for design , devices types and applications , tender design , shop drawing plans , single line diagrams )

The student will get hands on how to plan for fire alarm , prepare tender design and shop-drawings

Also the student learn how to read and prepare single line diagram , and the relation between fire alarm system and the other systems in buildings

Finally shop drawings and single line diagram and integration with other low current and power systems

This course for all who is interested in fire alarm generally whether they are engineers or technicians

This course not requires any special studies and suitable for all levels .

Course main topics :-

1- Fire alarm pre-design considerations

2- Fire alarm general considerations

3- Fire alarm system Designer responsibilities

4- Design stage No.1 ( Talk to the interested parties)

5- Fire alarm Detections levels

6- Define detections and alarm zones

7- Manual call points considerations and design

8- Heat sensors

9- Smoke detectors

10- Beam detectors

11- Alarm zones

12- Fire alarm devices in details

13- Fire alarm shop-drawing plan studying

14- Fire alarm single line diagram

15- Fire alarm cause and effect matrix