Siemens has announced Jensen Hughes, Inc., headquartered in Baltimore, as the winner of its fifth annual Engineering Innovation Award for 消防与生命安全 设计. An external panel of industry experts selected Jensen Hughes, which used an innovative 设计 approach incorporating Siemens’ FireFinder®XLS防火面板 into the Quick-Turn-Around (QTA) fueling facility of the new Consolidated Rental Car Facility at Chicago’s O’Hare International Airport.
Once the new car rental facility opens in the fourth quarter of 2018, the three-story QTA building will provide indoor gasoline fueling and car servicing, with each floor measuring approximately 90,²000英尺. The gasoline dispensing system will include 72 fueling nozzle positions supplied via 36 fleet fueling dispensers.
对于这个项目, Jensen Hughes was tasked with developing a performance-based building 设计 that adhered to the Chicago Building Code which prohibits dispensing of Class I flammable liquids (gasoline and windshield washer fluid) inside any building as well as to NFPA 30A, Code for Motor Fuel Dispensing Facilities and Repair Garages, which allows indoor fueling at-grade under very limited conditions.
Jensen Hughes’ proposed 设计 incorporated a multitude of safeguards and protective measures that included deluge foam sprinklers, 高度耐火性, 火分离, 自动火灾探测, 故障安全燃油系统设计特点, 通风特性, 还有很多其他的安全细节. Siemens’ FireFinder XLS fire panel will provide 消防系统 监控, 楼宇住户通知书, and graphic annunciators for critical information to first responders. The fire alarm control panel and system devices serve as a City of Chicago “Class I” zoned general evacuation fire alarm system.
除了, an APOGEE building automation system from Siemens will also be integrated with the O’Hare Communications Center for direct communications with the facility’s various building systems.
“Jensen Hughes had to really think outside of the box to address some of toughest 消防安全建筑规范 在乡下,Brad Haeberle说, 副总统, 解决方案和服务组合, 西门子建筑技术部. “I’m proud that our FireFinder XLS fire panel was instrumental in helping tie it all together. Congratulations on a job well done, Jensen Hughes!”
Siemens would also like to thank the judges for reviewing this year’s submissions: Dr. 詹姆斯Milke, Chair of the Department of 消防工程 and Professor at the University of Maryland; Dr. Albert Simeoni Professor and Department Head at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (Mass.); Andy King, Assistant Chief and Fire Marshal for the City of Franklin, Tenn., and Vice Chair for the International Association of Fire Chiefs (IAFC), Fire and Life Safety Section and for the International Code Council Fire Code Action Committee; and Chris Jelenewicz, Senior Manager for Engineering Practice at Society of Fire Protection Engineers and Technical Editor of SFPE’s 消防工程 杂志.
Siemens’ annual Engineering Innovation Award recognizes consulting specifying engineering firms that have incorporated Siemens 消防与生命安全 technologies into an innovative 设计 that solved a customer’s difficult challenge or advanced the use of technology in this field. Examples of innovation may range from new applications of existing technology, 具有成本效益的设计解决方案, to meeting unique building or construction requirements. 一个外部专家小组 消防 industry selects the winner from the applications received each year. The award is part of Siemens’ EngineeringAdvantage™ program.