The Institution of Engineers Malaysia (Southern Branch) - Past Activity: Fire Engineering Services

Engineers in the consultancy field often refer to various standards when commencing design and often these standards had been written with the assumption that the Engineers have already acquired some fundamentals of Fire Engineering. In reality our local Engineers generally are not exposed to these fundamentals. Engineers in the manufacturing sector generally have only the fundamental knowledge of Fire Engineering unless you are involved in an industry where fire hazard is inherent in the operation like a paint manufacturer, in the oil and gas sector otherwise they have superficial knowledge on the fundamentals.

This 2-day course is structured to provide the knowledge of Fire Engineering so that Engineers when reviewing standards relating to fire would appreciate the guidelines and clauses in the standard. For the manufacturing Engineers, you would be more alert of the fire hazards in your workplace, processes and environment hence can take mitigation measures to prevent the start of a fire.

The course contents as follows:

1. Principles of combustion, fire causes, preventions to mitigate losses

2. Fire behavior, static electricity, explosion proof equipment in an explosive environment

3. Occupancy and its hazardous materials, in storage, when handling and when used. Warehouse with high storage is a major potential fire

4. All Passive fire systems and the principles of operation e.g. compartment, fire barriers, fire doors, fire roller shutter, etc

5. All Active fire systems and the principles of operation. Specific cover on NFPA13 hydraulic calculation, NFPA 20 Fire pump selection, NFPA 25 Maintenance, gaseous systems and applications

6. Life safety aspect NFPA101, determine occupant load review, preparedness in an emergency, organize a fire team in the factory

7. Fundamentals of Fluid Laws, hydraulic calculation and yard hydrant hydraulic gradient

8. Insurance survey checklist what they look for in a survey, how Engineers assist their clients in this task. Shortcomings from survey findings

9. Exercises on fire pump selection, verify fire pump flow rate with data collected from Pitot tube readings, yard hydrant flow testing also using Pitot tube.

BENEFITS FROM ATTENDANCE

To some engineers this may be a refresher course whilst others may gather knowledge which would help them carry out their duties confidently. With the introduction of more plastic pipe materials and the usage of these pipes are inevitable due to its ease of installation, light weight and probably cost factor, an understanding the various types would be beneficial especially during project management discussion.

WHO SHOULD ATTEND

Engineers/architect/quantity surveyor/contractors involved in the installation of Plumbing Engineering services. Those without higher education should also attend as the course is more practical type rather than theory. If formulae shown, finding the factors are more important than how the formulae are derived even though these could be explained during the course.

ABOUT THE FACILITATOR

Ir. Gary Lim graduated from Canterbury, New Zealand in Mech. Eng and obtained his Mgt Dip from NZIM. He had over 30 years of working experience involved in the manufacture of chemicals, diaries, confectioneries, plastic bottles, industrial gases and paints. During his 7 years with the paint manufacturer, he was involved in the process piping design and the fire protection system of the factory. In his capacity as the Production Manager with a MNC diary manufacturer he was involved in Clean-In- Place (CIP) design. He spent the last 11 years with an MNC insurer and was sent to IRI Hartford USA for Fire Engineering course related to insurance survey and the evaluation of hydraulically calculated sprinkler system and selection of Fire pump. The Fluid Laws that govern the sprinkler hydraulic calculation and pump selection is similar to that of Plumbing Engineering in many aspects. Gary is a Corporate Member of the Institution of Engineers, Malaysia and is registered with the Board of Engineers of Malaysia as Professional Engineer. He is also an ASEAN Engineer. In order to keep abreast with the development of engineering in the country, he had been a very active member with the Building

Services Technical Division for the past 10 years and is currently the Advisor of the division. He is also a member of the IEM Fire Advisory Board and an IEM representative in the SIRIM Working Group in preparing the Malaysian Standard

on Polypropylene(PP) Pipes & Fittings. Gary had represented IEM BSTD on a number of speaking assignment and received favorable response on his topic and as a speaker.

REGISTRATION FEE:

IEM Member : RM 700.00

Non Member: RM 800.00

CIDB Rebate:

Participants who are holders of a valid CIDB Green Card and have paid their registration fees in FULL are eligible for a rebate of RM100.00 of the registration fees. Please forward clear certified copy of the CIDB Green Card together with the registration form for verification.

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