Control Rooms

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Control Rooms

• Serve as operations centers for
• the control and monitoring of a
• service or process
• Flight control rooms
• Power generation control rooms
• Industrial process control rooms
• Semiconductor fabrication
• Chemical production
• Steel and paper production
• Grain elevators

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Control Rooms

• Motor Control Center Rooms/Motor Control
  Centers
• Motor control equipment and the related control
  circuits to provide automation of production
  machinery

Grain silo MCC
Grain silo MCC
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Computer Rooms

• Computer Room
• A facility established to acquire, analyze,
  process,
• store, retrieve, and disseminate one or more
  types
• of data
• Data Center
• Data processing center/facility
• Electronic data processing (EDP) center/facility
• Information Technology (IT) facility
• Server room
• Contains computers and storage/retrieval,
  transmission
• equipment

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Control/Computer Rooms
Control/Computer Rooms

• Fire Protection Needs
• Class A Class C Fire Hazards
• Electrically energized equipment
• Plastic cables, housings, components
• PVC cabling
• Printed circuit boards (PCBs)
• Storage tape
• Expensive, mission critical equipment,
• Very sensitive to heat and combustion products
• Business continuity often critical

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Control/Computer Rooms Impact of Downtime
FOR A ONE HOUR OUTAGE
  Business Sector Revenue Loss per Hour Productivity Loss per Hour
Financial 9,997,500 3,640
Retail 397,500 2,580
Healthcare 157,500 1,250
Manufacturing 59,930 3,060
Public Sector 0 850
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Control/Computer Rooms

• NFPA 75
• Standard for the Protection of Information
  Technology Equipment
• NFPA 76
• Standard for the Fire Protection of
  Telecommunications Facilities

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Control/Computer Room Protection Automatic
Sprinkler Systems

• Fire Suppression via heat absorption
• Primary design objective Fire Control
• and protection of overall structure
• Confine fire to point of origin
• Control of ceiling temperatures to
• prevent structural damage
• and fire spread

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Control/Computer Room Protection Automatic
Sprinkler Systems

• NFPA 13, Standard for the
• Installation of Sprinkler Systems
• Preaction systems
• Detection
• NFPA 75 - Smoke detector
• NFPA 76
• SFD -Standard Fire detection
• EWFD early warning fire detection
• VEWFD very early warning fire detection

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Control/Computer Room Protection Water Mist

• Fire Suppression via heat absorption
• Primary design objective Fire Control
• and protection of overall structure
• Confine fire to point of origin
• Control of ceiling temperatures to
• prevent structural damage and fire spread

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Control/Computer Room Protection Water Mist

• NFPA 750, Standard on Water Mist
• Fire Protection Systems
• Low, medium high pressure
• Detection
• NFPA 75 - Smoke detector
• NFPA 76
• SFD - standard fire detection
• EWFD early warning fire detection
• VEWFD very early warning fire detection

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Control/Computer Room Protection Clean Agents

• Fire extinguishment via
• heat absorption
• Primary design objective
• Fire Extinguishment
• and protection of
• structures contents
• Rapid detection
• Rapid extinguishment

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Control/Computer Room Protection Clean Agents

• NFPA 2001, Standard on Clean Agent
• Fire Extinguishing Systems
• Detection
• NFPA 75 - Smoke detector
• NFPA 76
• SFD - standard fire detection
• EWFD early warning fire detection
• VEWFD very early warning fire detection

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Control/Computer Room Protection Portable
Extinguisher Requirements

• NFPA 75 Requirements
• CO2 or halogenated type fire extinguishers
• must be provided for the protection of
• electronic equipment
• Extinguishers must be maintained in accordance
• with NFPA 10, Standard for Portable Fire
• Extinguishers
• Listed extinguishers with a minimum rating of 2-A
  
• must be provided for use on fires in
  ordinary
• combustible materials, such as paper and
  plastics.

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Control/Computer Room Protection Portable
Extinguisher Requirements

• NFPA 76 Requirements
• Portable extinguishers suitable for use on
• energized equipment and/or ordinary
• combustible fires shall be provided
• The selection, placement, and maintenance
• of portable fire extinguishers shall be in
• accordance with NFPA 10