Ferrari Mailing List: Re: NFC: I'm a P.E.!!

[Paul Bennett (pbennett]

>> Congratulations, what exactly does a Fire PE do?


You left out DBS  Designated BarBQue Starter.





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>
>A Fire Protection Engineer can do numerous things...the PE exam tests for
>minimal competency in all of the following areas, but typically most FPEs
>specialize in one or two of these tops.
>
>1) Design sprinkler systems for buildings - anywhere from normal office
>spaces to complex and high hazard warehouses and aircraft hangars. Also
>included is fire pump specifying/sizing, fire hydrant marking, water
>supplies.
>
>2) Design fire alarm systems for buildings - my specialty. Smoke detector
>placement, speaker and strobe placement among other things.
>
>3) Conduct risk analysis for the insurance industry - Chubb, XL Global, etc.
>
>
>4) Life safety - egress calculations and specs for buildings. This includes
>minimum corridor and stairwell widths, occupant loading, travel distance
>limits.
>
>5) Design special hazard suppression systems - gas suppression like we
>talked about a few days ago like Halon, FM-200, Inergen....Carbon Dioxide
>systems, Foam Systems, etc.
>
>6) Specify fire resistance for building construction - walls, ceilings,
>doors, fireproofing of beams and columns.
>
>7) Design smoke control systems - pressurized stairwells, atrium exhaust,
>engineered smoke purge systems.
>
>8) Explosion prevention - Pressure relief of rooms to prevent
>deflagrations/detonations.
>
>9) Flammable Liquid Storage - Specifying what quantities and how much of
>them can be stored together in close proximity.
>
>10) Fire Dynamics - this is more of the science aspect.....calculating
>flashover points in a compartment, ceiling jet temperatures, plume
>widths...basically the behavior of fire.
>
>11) Human Behavior - Occupant speed, typical human behavior in fires,
>response times to fire cues, etc.
>
>There are a few more areas, but these are the topics that one has to be
>somewhat familiar with to pass the exam. No one FPE is an expert in all of
>these areas....too broad. Also, a few of the areas above are done by
>mechanical and electrical guys...there's overlap.
>
>I'm not a purist FPE in the sense that I work for a firm that does all of
>these things like a Rolf Jensen Associates, Arup, Schirmer Engineering. I'm
>an EE by degree who got into fire alarm design along with building
>electrical systems...I could have taken the PE in electrical but found fire
>to be more interesting.
>
>There's only one school offering a B.S. in FPE in the US, and that's the
>University of Maryland. It's still a rather new profession.
>
>FG
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