Module 14 Fire and Life Safety US-MHR-Managed-Mar 2022
Module 14 Fire and Life Safety US-MHR-Managed-Mar 2022
Module 14 Fire and Life Safety US-MHR-Managed-Mar 2022
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April 2022 | franchised
Table of Contents
chapter organization
• This chapter is a part of an integrated series of Chapters.
• This chapter is a part of an integrated series of Chapters.
definitions
• Design Standard: a minimum requirement to be fulfilled
without exception
• Best Practice: a recommended design guideline, practice or
way to execute a design standard
• Expanded Information: an explanation of a design standard
or best practice
• Reference (internal): a reference to another document /
section within the design standards or to a design strategy /
guide within the brand standards
Exception: Fire Protection & Life Safety Design
Standard references are to external codes only
English is the official and binding language of these design standards. The
translated versions are provided as a courtesy only and are not controlling
and have no legal effect.
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14.1 Guiding Principles
A. Principle 1: Obey the Law. Comply with governing laws, codes and regulations
even if not regularly enforced.
Rationale: Quickly containing and suppressing a fire can largely eliminate loss of
life and significantly reduce property damage and resulting business interruption.
Grease fires in kitchens are some of the most common and dangerous sources
of fires in a hotel. Elements of “firewalls” must resist fire and contain smoke for a
minimum period of time to be effective.
D. Principle 4: Provide adequate egress for fire and emergency situations. Consider
the following critical items impacting egress; the number of exits, travel distance,
dead-end corridors, common path of travel, occupant load, egress capacity,
direction of door swing and door hardware.
Rationale: Even if occupants are alerted of a danger, they must be able to quickly
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exit from the building to avoid the danger.
E. Principle 5: Adequately address the need for effective smoke control to allow
occupants to exit the building. In a fire, exit signs in public areas need to be
visible and egress stairs need to be usable.
Rationale: More people die in fires from inhalation of smoke and toxic vapors
than from being burned by flames.
F. Principle 6: Provide immediate standby power for emergency power and lighting.
Provide emergency lighting throughout normally occupied areas and means of
egress.
G. Principle 7: Provide effective integration of elevator recall functions with fire alarm
systems. When smoke is detected in the elevator lobby, elevator machine room
or elevator shaft, elevators must automatically return to:
• pre-designated levels (those with areas of egress) or
• alternative levels (if the pre-designated levels are affected by the fire) This
prevents elevators from stopping at floors affected by the fire. Thereafter, control
of elevators must be turned over to firefighters for emergency operations. Lastly,
the main power to elevators must automatically shut off when there is risk of
activation of sprinklers in the elevator hoistway or machine room (which can
cause elevators to act erratically).
H. Principle 8: Limit fire risks of building contents. Consider fire resistance ratings of
building materials / components and the flammability ratings of furnishings,
carpeting, curtains and wall finishes.
Rationale: Building contents can serve as fuel for fires and emit toxic fumes and
must be carefully selected.
Rationale: Even the best designed FLS systems do not work if they are installed
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incorrectly.
B. Definitions:
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a. Drawings Scale: Provide drawings at an accurate and easily readable
scale.
b. Submittal Requirements:
• Floor Plans: Show floor areas (m² or ft²) and rooms exiting, exit
capacity, occupant load diagrams, door hardware and fire resistance
ratings.
• Fire Alarm: System diagrams, shop drawings, equipment product
sheets, voltage drop and battery calculations and sequence of operation
matrix.
• Automatic Sprinkler & Standpipe: System shop drawings, hydraulic
calculations, and equipment product sheets, fire pump test curve, and
controller and transfer switch equipment sheet.
• Type 1 Grease Hood & Duct Fire Suppression: Equipment product
sheets and drawings (plan and side views) indicating cooking equipment,
hood and suppression system. See <10>.
• Emergency Power: Plans for emergency lighting and exit signs, and
information on the emergency power provided.
• Smoke Control: System shop drawings, sequence of operations, riser
diagrams and calculations (space volumes, air changes, make-up and
exhaust, fan and equipment flow capacities, and locations).
2. Contact Information:
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14.3 Principle 1 - Obey the Law
A. Laws & Governing Regulations: Comply with governing laws, codes and
regulations even if not regularly enforced. If governing requirements conflict with
MI’s Design Standards, contact FLS for resolution.
B. Application: Current edition of all cited references are the basis for FLS Design
Standards and are applicable to all MI managed, owned and franchised
properties.
A. Standards: IBC, NFPA 13, NFPA 14, NFPA 1142, NFPA 22 and NFPA 20.
B. Automatic Sprinkler, Water Mist & Standpipe System: Comply with code as
written.
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6. Loading Docks and Truck Bays: Provide sprinkler protection. If subject
to freezing, provide dry pipe system.
7. Freezer & Cooler Boxes: Protect with dry type sprinklers supplied from
area wet pipe sprinkler system.
D. Design Requirements:
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5. Check Valves: Provide check valves at floor control valves as required
to eliminate false activation of sprinkler waterflow alarms on other floors.
6. Water Flow Switches: Provide retardant type. Initiate alarm signal between
30 and 60 seconds.
c. Attic Spaces: Provide dedicated zone for attic spaces, separate from floor
below.
9. Fire Pumps: Locate fire pump drivers, fire pumps, fire pump controllers and
fire pump power supplies (normal and standby) above the 100 year flood
elevation and above the maximum anticipated hurricane / typhoon / cyclone
storm surge elevations.
E. Wet Pipe Sprinkler Systems: Provide for habitable spaces such as guestrooms,
guestroom corridors, public and back-of-house areas.
F. Dry Pipe Sprinkler Systems: Best Practice for Small Hotels (see definition)
1. Design to provide water to the remote inspector test and drain assembly
within 60 seconds.
3. Use steel schedule 40 pipe. Include grooved fittings with cut grooves
with sealing type gaskets. Install piping with a pitch, including heated areas.
4. Dry type sprinklers supplied from the wet pipe sprinkler system may be
provided in small unheated areas.
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ground level.
3. Sprinkler zones with dead end mains or more than one remote end,
provide inspector’s tests and drains at each dead end main and remote end.
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H. Sprinklers:
1. Provide 4.07 lpm / m² (0.10 gpm / sq. ft.) minimum discharge density for light
hazard areas. Best Practice for Small Hotels (see definition)
a. Sprinkler Table
a. Sprinkler Table
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4. Concealed (cover plate) sprinklers are not preferred.
5. Sprinkler Coordination:
3. Sequence of Operation: The hood and duct fire suppression system control
units initiate the following:
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continues operation (unless required by manufacturer to shut down for
proper operation of the system).
1. Provide entire building with a point addressable intelligent central fire alarm
system from MI’s accepted equipment vendors. See the Fire Alarm System
Sequence Matrix. Coordinate with <15A>.
4. Testing: Provide the following at the Fire Alarm Control Panel (FACP) for MI
Managed Properties only:
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C. System Smoke Sensors (Detectors):
1. Guestrooms, Suite Rooms and other Sleeping Units: Provide low voltage
photoelectric system smoke sensors.
a. Provide remote test switch and indicator light accessible from floor
level.
D. Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detectors: Install system type CO detectors that are
listed for life safety use and provide automatic alert tone (four pulse temporal
pattern) in affected area. Connect to the FACP and annunciate as a supervisory
signal.
1. General: Provide in rooms and areas containing fuel burning appliances and
equipment. Including but not limited fireplaces (including wood), kitchens,
main laundry room, boiler/water heater room, pool equipment room,
generator room and fire pump room.
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E. Alarm Notification Appliances: Provide audible notification appliances
(speakers, mini-horns, horns, or sounder bases of system smoke sensors listed
for general and local evacuation) and visual notification strobe lights in locations
according to the following:
b. If audible appliance is not listed for both local and general alarm, provide
audible devices listed for each purpose in each sleeping room and living
room.
a. Arrange strobes to flash in each room or area, within 4.9 m (16 ft)
direct line of sight from bed pillows, and bathroom when the following
occurs:
• System smoke sensors or (CO) detectors in rooms or units activate.
• Building fire alarm notification alarms activate.
b. Strobe Light Rating: 177 candela - within 61 cm (24 inch) from the
ceiling; 110 candela - more than 61 cm (24 inch) from the ceiling.
3. Public Areas, Corridors & BOH: Provide audible and visual notification
appliances (including in public toilet rooms and guest laundry rooms).
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G. Manual Pull Stations: In lowrise buildings, provide at Reception Desk only,
unless required in other locations by applicable codes.
I. Sound and Lighting: Building sound system shall shunt and light dimming
systems in public areas and assembly spaces shall turn on to full brightness on
affected floors upon activation of the fire alarm system. Best Practice for Small
Hotels (see definition).
J. Annunciator: Provide point address to indicate floor, specific location, device and
type of alarm. Provide annunciators in areas monitored 24 hours by property
employees (Security, AYS, PABX room, Reception Desk). Best Practice for
Small Hotels (see definition) if FACP is in a continuously attended location.
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14.6 Principle 4 - Means of Egress
B. Application: Comply with code as written except "horizontal exits" are not
permitted.
D. Assembly Spaces:
b. Exhibit Halls, Restaurant, Lounges & Boardrooms: 1.4 m² (15 sq. ft.) per
occupant
2. Design Requirements:
d. Remote Exits: Two or more remote exits are required from a space
with an occupant load of 50 or more. The distance between the nearest
edges of remote exits is a minimum of one third the greatest diagonal
dimension of the space in sprinklered buildings.
• Two remote exits required for 50 or more occupants
• Three remote exits required for 500 or more occupants
• Four remote exits required for 1,000 or more occupants
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g. Banquet Chairs: Provide a fastening device on banquet chairs to
connect chairs to each other in rows to prevent individual chair
displacement from blocking rows and aisles during emergency egress
from assembly occupancies with more than 200 persons.
E. Egress Capacity:
1. Stairways: 7.6 mm (0.3 inch) width per person; a minimum width of 1.12 m.
2. Doors, Level Components & Ramps: 5 mm (0.2 inch) width per person.
3. For stairways wider than 1120 mm (44 inch), the capacity may be
increased using the following equation (imperial units only):
C = capacity, in persons
Wn = nominal width of the stair (inches)
F. Multi-Use Exits: Avoid sharing stairs and exit corridors with other properties
(office, retail, residence, etc.). If unavoidable, submit and obtain acceptance from
FLS of alternate facilities that safeguard the property operational and security
integrity. See <1>.
G. Exterior Exit Path: Provide the required width for the exit capacity but not
less than 90 cm (3 ft.), hard surfaced walkway leading to a public way.
H. Exit Discharge: Discharge one half of all exits directly to the building
exterior.
I. Doors:
1. Exit stairwell doors are not permitted to be lockable from either side. Access
control is not permitted.
2. Marked or designated exit doors or exit access doors are not permitted to be
lockable in the direction of egress travel and hardware shall be capable of
being operated with a single motion. Access control is not permitted.
3. In multi-use buildings (office, retail, residences, etc) that share exit stairwells
and exit access corridors where safety is a concern, contact MI FLS.
K. Signage:
2. Means of Egress Signage: Provide egress and exit sign quantities and
locations as follows:
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a. Provide a minimum of two remote exit signs or directional exit signs,
visible from locations in a corridor and in spaces with more than 49
occupants.
a. In larger spaces such as atriums and exhibit halls, increase the air
change rates.
3. Makeup Air: Provide makeup air for each smoke exhaust zone. Provide
mechanical supply air no less than 70% of exhaust rate.
4. Ducted System: Provide hard ducted smoke exhaust from each smoke
zone. Return air plenums and slot diffusers are not permitted for smoke
exhaust systems.
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points to eliminate dead spots and prevent excessive air velocities.
7. Sequence of Operation:
b. Smoke Exhaust Fan: Discharge damper fully opens. The fan starts
and provides 100% exhaust to exterior.
d. Other Zones: Supply, return and exhaust fans for HVAC systems in
other zones remain in normal operating mode.
1. Natural Ventilation:
a. Open stairwells
2. Mechanical Vestibule Ventilation: Ventilate vestibule with not less than one
air change per minute and provide exhaust at 150% of the supply.
b. Fan:
• Type: Provide fan with variable frequency drive. Determine a single set
point during commissioning with all doors closed.
• Supply Damper: Motor operated, low leakage
4. Other Criteria:
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a. Doors: 13.50 kg (30 lbs.) maximum opening force across doors into
egress stairs.
E. Smoke Control Panel: Provide a smoke control panel for manual control of
equipment that is part of the smoke control system with Hand-Off-Automatic
(HOA) and pilot lights to indicate status and fault monitoring (one switch and
lights for each zone).
1. Location: Position the smoke control panel at the location of the main
fire alarm panel.
4. ‘Off’ Position: Shuts down the equipment and returns all dampers to
their normal mode.
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14.8 Principle 6 - Standby power
D. Emergency Lighting: See <15C>. Provide emergency lighting for code required
egress, property operations and safety as follows:
• Administrative common area
• Egress paths and stairs
• Employee Cafeteria / Breakroom
• Employees lockers and toilets
• Engineering / Maintenance Office
• Exit signs
• Exterior exit door discharge
• Fire Command Room (high-rise buildings)
• Fire Pump / Sprinkler Riser Room
• Fitness Center
• Indoor Pool Room
• Kitchens (commercial F&B preparation areas)
• Laundry
• Mechanical, electrical and elevator rooms
• Meeting Rooms, Ballrooms, Exhibit Halls
• PABX & AYS Room
• Parking Structure
• Public stairs and steps
• Reception Desk
• Restaurants, Lounges
• Spa Treatment Rooms
• Security Office
• Telephone Equipment Room
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14.9 Principle 7 - Elevator Recall
C. Fire Resistance Ratings: Fire resistance ratings of walls, doors, shafts, stair
enclosures, floor / ceiling assemblies and flammability ratings of furnishing,
carpeting, curtains and wall finishes shall comply with IBC. See FF&E criteria.
1. Chute Vent: Extend (full size) a minimum of 90 cm (3 ft.) above the roof
line.
2. Loading Door: Protect chute openings with a fire rated loading door,
located within a service opening room (vestibule).
3. Room Enclosure:
• Construct the service opening room (vestibule) with a 1-hour fire rated
enclosure and 45-minute fire rated door.
• Construct the discharge room with a 1-hour fire rated enclosure and 1-hour
fire rated door.
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14.11 Principle 9 - Systems Testing
A. Application: Before a property is occupied, the fire protection and life safety
systems shall be fully operational, contractor tested and certified to the
satisfaction of a Marriott FLS Representative.
C. Type 1 Grease Hood & Duct Fire Suppression: Pretest all coordinated
components by activation of hood and duct suppression system control unit.
D. Fire Alarm: Pretest and operate system without trouble lights exhibited.
3. Stair Pressurization: Test and operate the system, concurrently with the
smoke exhaust system (if provided), to confirm design pressures and door
opening force.
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I. Means of Egress: Facilities for means of egress shall be operational and
unobstructed.
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