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Car Park Fire Protection and the Electric Vehicle Risk
BYKHY thresholds for enclosed car parks (600 m² sprinklers, 2000 m² smoke extraction), the LPG rule, drainage and the new risks from electric vehicle charging.
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Escape Routes and Fire Stairs: The Design Logic
What counts as an escape route, the two-way escape principle, exit capacity, protected stairs and pressurisation, emergency lighting and the most...
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Fire Protection in Schools and Dormitories
Evacuation drills and escape design in schools, the sleeping occupant risk in dormitories, laboratory and workshop hazards, and choosing sprinklers and...
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Fire Requirements for High-Rise Buildings in Turkey
The high-rise definition, pressure zones, protected stairs and pressurisation, firefighting lifts, the fire control centre, and what changes in...
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Fire Safety Management, Drills and Records
The elements of fire safety management, team structure, drill scenarios, hot work permits, impairment management and the records that must be kept.
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Hose Reel and Hydrant Systems
BYKHY Articles 94 and 95: where hose cabinets are required, 30/45 m spacing, 100 and 400 l/min; above-ground hydrants, min. 1,900 l/min, 700 kPa, 50–150 m spacing.
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Hospital Fire Protection: Horizontal Evacuation and Continuity
Why hospital fire strategy rests on horizontal evacuation, compartmentation, the special cases of theatres and intensive care, medical gases and...
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Shopping Centre Fire Protection and the Atrium Problem
Atrium smoke control in a shopping centre, hazard classification inside units, the risk created by tenant fit-outs, and the special cases of cinemas,...
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The Fire Design Approval Process in Turkey, Step by Step
What stages a fire design goes through, when the fire authority opinion is obtained, which documents are asked for, how revisions are managed and how...
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TSE, CE, UL, FM, LPCB and VdS: The Difference Between Approval Schemes
Whether CE marking is the same as product approval, the difference between UL listing and FM approval, where LPCB and VdS sit, and which certificate to...
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Which Buildings Require Sprinklers in Turkey? A Decision Tree
The criteria that decide whether sprinklers are required, the effect of occupancy class and height, how area thresholds work, and reasons to fit...
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Which Standard Applies in Turkey? BYKHY, NFPA 13 and EN 12845
BYKHY Article 96(5) requires sprinkler design to TS EN 12845; how NFPA 13 and FM Global are handled as an added layer for insurers and investors.