Building Design for Bangladeshi RMG Industry with Built in Fire Safety System
Imon Biswas Shuvo, Ripon Kumar Prasad, Md. Moshiur Rahman, Sraboni Dey, Sadia Alam
Email: rkprasad@duet.ac.bd
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Abstract
This paper shows a building design especially for the RMG industry of Bangladesh with built in fire safety system. Due to heavy traffic jam in the road, it takes a long time for fire service and civil defense to reach in the accidental area. This built in fire safety system can helps to extinguish fire and helps to reduce the loss of asset due to fire accident until the arrival of fire service in the accidental area. Data is collected from literature review, case studies and informative interviews from key person of fire service and civil defense authority for understanding the background of this research. Finally an AutoCAD drawing is shown for the proposed building design with necessary equipment’s. This design consists a large tank with automatic watering system for water storage at the roof top of the building. Water is supplied from water tank to each floor through the water pipe when the chain is dragged by someone such as security guard or other employee. An emergency chain dragging system is available in the management room which will be operated in urgent situation such as governmental holidays or at night. An extra motor facility will be added in this system which ensure watering system in the tank and this power line is taken directly from governmental line because there will be no electricity connection in the factory when fire accident occurs. For the sustainability issue, rain water storage facilities were available in this system. Fire extinguisher ball will be kept in each floor nearest to the various electronic equipment which helps to extinguish fire when fire accident is caused by E type fire. This building design for RMG industry has not need huge amount of cost. On the other hand, this system will be added to the existing building without hampering the productivity.