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24X7 DUBAI CIVIL DEFENCE SPECIFICATION FOR LIFE SAFETY ALARM MONITORING
Category - 5
Dubai Civil Defence has made a commitment to enhance Life Safety and National Security in Dubai by implementing a 24x7x365 Remote Monitoring System (RMS).
RMS will detect and report alarms in real time from Fire and Fire Fighting Systems, Lift and Gas detection systems in residential, domestic, commercial and industrial buildings.
The project includes the entire Emirate of Dubai and covers every type of buildings right from Warehouses to high rise buildings. Project will be using state of the art technology (M2M) to automatically send alarm signals in case of emergency. Information including exact details on alarm location and status will be provided to DCD for immediate response.
The buildings/sheds are divided into different categories. The specifications for Buildings/sheds falling within Category 5 are as follows:
Buildings with gross area above 200,000 sq ft with any of the following parameters are specified as Category-5.
· Buildings with twenty one floors and more
· Multiple Room Commercial Establishments.
· Industrial sheds with area of more than 200,000 sq ft.
· Industrial Facility with Hazardous material (irrespective of area)
· A building with no or multiple interface panel. (irrespective of area)
Any Category-5 building may have the following alarm monitoring systems:
· Addressable based Fire Alarm System with minimum floor wise zoning and open protocol connectivity as described in Section 1.4
· Fire Pumps
· Fire Water Tank Low Level
· Lifts
· Gas Detection
Subscriber should provide a single Interface Panel for interfacing to the Dubai Civil Defence monitoring panel. The Interface Panel shall have the following capability.
Ø Common Fire Alarm within the building
Ø Common Fire Alarm System Fault.
Ø One alarm point per floor/zone for fire alarm(In case of fire alarm panel not being able to provide open protocols)
Ø Fire Water Tank Low Level
Ø Individual Lift Alarm
Ø Individual Lift Fault
Ø Individual Fire Pump Run Status
Ø Individual Fire Pump Fault Status
Ø Gas Detection System Common Alarm
Ø Gas Detection System Common Fault.
Ø Common Alarm from specialized Fire Systems.
BMS Requirements Buildings having a BMS should have the provision to monitor the following points in the building:
· Fire Alarm per floor including basement
· Common Fire Alarm system Fault
· Fire Water Tank Low Level
· Individual Lift Fault
· Individual Lift Passenger Alarms
· Individual Fire Pump Running Status
· Individual Fire Pump Trip Status
· Fire Water Line Low Pressure Alarm
· Gas alarm per zone or floor
· Common Gas Alarm System Fault.
· Common Alarm from specialized Fire Systems
The BMS shall integrate to the Dubai Civil Defence Alarm Panel using open protocols as defined below. The BMS shall expose all the above mentioned points as Digital values to the Dubai Civil Defence Alarm Panel using any of the open protocols defined below:
Open protocols:
· Bacnet IP
· Bacnet MSTP
· Modbus TCP
· Modbus RTU over three wire RS485 – Proper Modbus registers to be provided for each monitoring point.
· Lonworks
Important Information
(a) All Contractors/Building Owners to subscribe at DCD counter.
(b) Survey will be conducted within 7 working days of date of subscription.
(c) Building category will be decided after survey.
(d) The subscriber will need to rectify all snags identified during survey within 48 hrs.
(e) Subscriber will make the payments at DCD cash counter.
(f) For multi-tenanted industrial sheds/building with common fire alarm panel, the subscription charges will be borne by the owner. Tenant need to produce the photocopy of the receipt towards payments of subscription charges, duly endorsed by the owner. Owner’s endorsement will be considered as acceptance of owner towards tenant’s area being covered by the centralized fire alarm system.
(g) Individual tenants with their own fire alarm system will pay for the subscription charges as per determined category.
(h) It is mandatory that Industrial sheds with hazardous materials should have a separate panel for the area of the storage.
(i) Depending upon the type of material stored, multi tenanted industrial sheds might be required to install a separate Fire alarm panel and it will be at the sole discretion of Dubai Civil Defence.
(j) It is recommended that all buildings falling in category-4 and above should have an addressable fire alarm system installed covering the entire buildup area.
Note:
This document is only a guideline. Depending upon the size, location and utilities of a property, Dubai Civil Defence has the discretion of advising the systems to be installed for the safety of life and property. Accordingly the property can be treated as Category 5 at the sole discretion of Dubai Civil Defence.
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| Last Updated on Monday, 20 July 2009 05:44 |
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