Centre Court, Brent Cross shopping centre, North London.
Centre Court, Brent Cross shopping centre
Centre court, forming the intersection of four shopping malls in this 2-storey extensive shopping centre, was previously a sterile area except for a feature fountain, a wall climbing lift and escalators. The developer proposed to remove the fountain and install three retail display kiosks. There were two parts to my work. First, to check that the smoke extract management system would cope with a 10MW fire on the floor below the dome extraction, and this was done using the well-known axisymmetric smoke plume equation. Secondly, the fire consultants had provided calculations for space separation resulting from a black-box computer program which could not be directly checked by building control so I undertook my own calculations for the design fires adopted using the classic configuration factor for a rectangular radiator representing the flame and the implicitly permitted incident thermal radiation intensity (12.8kW/m2) under building regulations. I checked that the fire scenarios were reasonable and used my own spread sheet calculation for checking the incident radiation intensity from the flames.
Client: Building Control Department, London Borough of Barnet, North London
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Client: Norman Jones & Rigby, Southport, 1979.
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Client: Watkins Group Woodgate International, Edgbaston, 1979.
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Client: Building Design Partnership, London
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