LAYOUT PROPOSAL BY RJR GROUP

RJR Group received the request to design a firemen training center from scratch.

The purpose of the new Fire Fighting Training Center is to provide high-quality theoretical-practical training but with the advantage of being able to carry out a varied number of interventions by simulating a multiple typology of interventions.

1.       Location Research

The proposed fire-fighting training center area has been spotted nearby the customer’s head offices; it is covering an overall 90.000 sqm. The area designated for the training could be ca 14.000 sqm.

2.       Design criteria

There is in fact an existing structure, consisting of a portion of buildings for daily lodging (sleeping, eating, bathrooms), so this portion will not be changed or redesigned. We decided to start from here, to REDUCE COSTS as much as possible.

The new structure will be used to contain the CLASSROOMS AND SERVICES and we will implement an EQUIPPED TEST FIELD (5,000 m2) to simulate the most varied types of fires and for training in the use of vehicles and respiratory protection.
The didactic and reception area, with nicely furnished classrooms with the most modern audiovisual systems, will have two areas divided for both gender that allow all attendants to wear work clothes and to equip themselves with personal protective equipment

FIRST EXAMPLE OF CLASSROOMS AND TOWER TRAINING LAYOUT

This portion of this structure is completed by the warehouse containing all the equipment needed to carry out the training courses.

The remaining area of ​​5,000 square meters is equipped with a test field capable of offering the professionalism and competence in fire-fighting training.

3.       Training area design

The test field will allow to recreate fires very similar to those that can occur in the most varied practical realities. Training will be on:

• Fire extinguishing interventions on square tanks from a minimum of 4 square meters to a maximum of 16 square meters

• Extinguishing of large fires with the use of foaming liquid

• Extinguishing of pressurized liquid leaking from flange leaks affecting the surrounding area

• Extinguishing of fires on simulators of electrical transformers and electrical substations

• Interventions for extinguishing fires in an indoor environment filled with smoke with the sprinkler system in operation

• Interventions to extinguish three-dimensional fires

• Extinguishing interventions on chemical reactor with loss from process equipment

• Shutdown interventions on industrial piping

• Extinguishing of fires with products flowing on an inclined surface

• Interception of gas leaks under pressure with the formation of a burning cloud

• Interception of burnt LPG leaking from a cylinder

• Extinguishing intervention on the distillation column for vertical fires

• Extinguishing interventions on a burning tanker involving the surrounding area

• Extinguishing intervention on a burning car

• Simulation of forest fire extinguishing intervention

• Crossing of a burning tunnel with fire suits

• Saving of human beings trapped in cars in rivers/lakes

For this last intervention, a small artificial lake (or pool) 20 x 20 x 2m will be built in the area, and a special car wreck will be utilized to simulate the rescue.

There will also be a submerged water tank to simulate the use of fixed hydrants.

Last but not least, a 3 stores building, that will simulate the fire extinguishing process inside a house or apartment, both from outside (truck ladders) or from inside, smashing entrance doors, etc. opposite portion of building will have the pole for fire fighters sliding upon an emergency call. 

Final project layout: Contact RJR Group for Details