{"id":69636,"date":"2004-01-05T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2004-01-05T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news-draft\/uncategorized\/engineering-firm-ryan-center-meets-or-exceeds-national-fire-safety-standards\/"},"modified":"2004-01-05T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2004-01-05T00:00:00","slug":"engineering-firm-ryan-center-meets-or-exceeds-national-fire-safety-standards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.uri.edu\/news\/2004\/01\/engineering-firm-ryan-center-meets-or-exceeds-national-fire-safety-standards\/","title":{"rendered":"Engineering firm: Ryan Center meets or exceeds national fire safety standards"},"content":{"rendered":"
\n\t\tMedia Contact: Dave Lavallee, 874-5862
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\nKINGSTON, R.I. –January 5, 2004 — The 溏心vlog免费B站\u2019s Ryan Center meets or exceeds national fire safety and protection standards, according to Fire Protection and Code Consultants Inc.
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\n\tThe Kansas City engineering firm, which specializes in fire code compliance around the world, played a key role in developing the Ryan\u2019s Center comprehensive fire safety features. The company\u2019s findings are part of a full 溏心vlog免费B站 response to questions raised by the state Fire Marshal\u2019s Office.
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\nIn addition, J. Kevin Culley, the University\u2019s director of safety and risk management, said the building, which opened in the summer of 2002, has design, fire protection and communication features unmatched in any public arena in Rhode Island.
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\nCulley addressed the center\u2019s fire safety features during and following two reports last week by Channel 10 about the building. “This is probably one of the safest arenas of this type in the northeast,” Culley said on camera.
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\n\tThe building is designed, constructed and operated to high safety standards, and the certificate of occupancy under which it is presently operated was executed by the State Building Commissioner\u2019s Office and the State Fire Marshal\u2019s Office, demonstrating its safety for occupancy.
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\nEven before a shovel went into the ground, 溏心vlog免费B站 hired HOK Sport, the world\u2019s leader in architectural design for major sports and event venues, to design the Ryan Center. One of the HOK principals is an expert on national fire protection issues. HOK has designed more than 150 indoor arenas around the world in the last two years. Gillette Stadium in Foxboro and the Olympic Ice Arena in Salt Lake City are just two examples of its work along with arenas at colleges, universities and municipalities very similar in scale and capacity to the Ryan Center.
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\n\tThe Ryan Center has advanced fire protection systems extensively employed in large assembly facilities in the country, including:
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\no A smoke evacuation system, which is backed up by an emergency generator system. The generator, which is tested weekly, also backs up all other electronic components of the fire protection system. Engineering studies commissioned by the University in the planning and construction process state that the longest it would take someone to get out of the building is 7.6 minutes. The smoke evacuation system maintains fresh air to a level 8.5 feet above the building concourse for a period of 20 minutes, more than double the amount of time audiences would need to exit the building safely.
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\no Smoke, heat and carbon monoxide detectors
\noThe latest in communications systems used by the 60 event staff, five
\nfirefighters and two emergency medical technicians on hand for sold-out
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\no A supervised alarm system that would pinpoint the location of a fire
\no A sprinkler system.
\no Finish materials in the building have the highest fire safety rating
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\nThe University has responded completely and publicly, issuing a comprehensive report that cites findings of the firm Fire Protection Code Consultants. It says that the Ryan Center exceeds national standards for safe evacuation. As part of the public process under way at this time, the University and the State Fire Marshal\u2019s office have approved the engagement of Howe Engineering Fire Protection and Life Safety Code Consultants of West Falmouth, Mass.
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\nThe third-party engineering firm will conduct a peer review of the University commissioned engineering study of egress in relation to the fire protection systems and features of the building. Those results will be submitted to the fire marshal\u2019 s office.
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\n\t“This is not a question of building safety; it is a question of completing the process initiated by the Fire Marshal\u2019s Office,” Culley said.\n\t<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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