Fire Alarm & Detection Calculator

Sizes a fire detection and alarm system: how many detectors, how far apart, where the manual pull stations go, how the building is split into alarm zones and how bright the visual alarms must be.

• Detector count and spacing for each area.
• Manual pull station placement along exit paths.
• Alarm zones for the building.
• The brightness of the visual alarms, and whether the fire station must be notified automatically.
• Follows: RA 9514 (Fire Code of the Philippines), Section 10.2.6.6, manual stations, zoning and notification; NFPA 72, the alarm and signaling standard the Fire Code adopts.
• Ceiling shape, beams and air movement change detector spacing. Treat the count as a starting layout for the fire protection engineer.

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