MECHANICAL & ELECTRICAL WORKS

MEASUREMENT (SBEQ3213)
Week 12 : Fire Fighting System - Hose Reel, Sprinkler & Fire
Extinguisher

Sr. Dr. Sarajul Fikri Mohamed

Faculty of Built Environment

TABLE OF CONTENTS
1. Fire fighting installations: hose reel, sprinkler and portable
fire extinguisher
2. SMM2 measurement rules for fire fighting installations

3. Taking off list for fire fighting installations

4. Heading and description.

FIRE FIGHTING INSTALLATION

Standpipe

Wet
Standpipe

Dry
Standpipe

Hose Reel

Sprinkler

Wet Pipe
System

Dry Pipe
System

Portable

Pre-action
System

- Water tank

- Water tank

- Pump

- Pump

- Pipes

- Pipes

- Sprinkler

- Sprinkler

- Alarm

- Fire Detector
- Alarm

Deluge
System

FIRE ALARM
PORTABLE FE

HOSE REEL

MAIN COMPONENTS
1. Builders Work
2. Hose Reel System
Swing hose- reel, Water storage tank, Electrical duty pump,
Diesel duty pump, Piping: incoming pipe -rising pipe,
distribution pipe
3. Fire Alarm panel
Manual Break Glass, Fire Alarm Bell, Batteries, Batery Charger
4. Brasswork
Air release valve, Gate valve, Check valve, Strainer valve,
Flexible joint
5. Portable Fire Extinguisher
6. Equipment and Ancillaries
Concrete plinth
7. Pipe Support
Pipe hanger
8. Sundries
Testing

LAW AND REGULATIONS : FIRE

FIGHTING INSTALLATIONS
The fire protection system installed are in full compliance and
regulations
1. The British Standards Institution 750 For Fire Hydrant
2. The British Standards Institution 5839 Part 1, 1980 For Fire
Alarm System
3. The Requirements Of The Chief Inspectorate Of The Fire
Services Malaysia.

FIRE ALARM SYSTEM : MANUAL ALARM

COMPONENTS
Fire alarm panel
Manual break glass
Alarm bell

Fire Alarm System : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS

AN ALARM PANEL: monitors the state of all parts (zones) of the

installation.

POINT DETECTORS: individual heat or smoke detection units

which respond to an irregular situation in the immediate vicinity

LINE DETECTORS: a continuous type of detection comprising a

pair of conducting cables separated by low temperature melting
insulation to permit a short circuit alarm when the cable contact.

POWER SUPPLY: These should have primary (normal electricity)

and secondary (battery) power supplies.

Smoke Detector : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS

Fire
alarm
system
is
functioning as a components
which give warning sign to
occupants in a building if it is
burning.
It normally, installed with
detector.
There is 2 type of detector,
passive (Manual break glass)
and active (Smoke detector,
heat detector, light detector).

KELUAR sign and emergency light

Flashing lights

HOSE REEL SYSTEM : WET RISER

HOSE REEL SYSTEM: FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS

Pressurised using 1 unit of electrical pumpset as duty pump

& 1 unit diesel engine pumpset as standby

Designed to operate an automatic mode (Pressure switch) &

manual mode (manual starting from the pumpsets control
panel)

Standard coil length 30m, 36m or 100m.

Specification :Working Pressure : 220Psi (15 Bar)

Minimum Burst Pressure : 696Psi (48 Bar)
Test Pressure : 250Psi

TYPICAL HOSE REEL: FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS

Synthetic Delivery Nose : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
General purpose synthetic
delivery hose. Suitable for
industrial and rural fire brigades
as well as static building
protection.

General industrial, commercial

and civil engineering applications
including water
authorities where a high burst
performance hose is not necessary
Lightweight and flexible
Heat and cold resistant
Anti rot and anti-twist

Branch Pipe and Nozzle : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Branch pipes provide an
adjustable nozzle to allow the
curtain of water to be altered from
a narrow spray to a wide spray.
Nozzles provide a fixed jet of
water. The basic branch pipe
according to BS336 has an 21/2"
inlet male instantaneous and
outlet threaded 11/3" BSP male
for either a plain jet or a
branchpipe adjustable nozzle.
The branch pipe is controlled from
SHUT-OFF through JET and SPRAY
to wide angle CURTAIN by rotating
the annular sleeve.

HOSE REEL SYSTEM: DRY RISER

Dry Riser & Inlet Breeching: FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
System for dry riser
This range includes:
inlet breechings
inlet and outlet
cabinets
outlet valves
standpipes, bars and
keys.

Dry Riser Components: FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
DRY RISER
Designed to house inlet
breechings and landing
valves
Georgian wired glass
panel and spring cylinder
lock with key
Manufactured from zintec,
epoxy polyester powder
coated - Red

FIRE FIGHTING SYSTEM

MEASUREMENT RULES

SECTION Q
PLUMBING AND MECHANICAL
ENGINEERING INSTALLATIONS

19

Section Q: MEASUREMENT RULES

Q.1 Information
Q.2 Clasification Of Work
Q.3 Location of works
PIPEWORKS
Q.7 Generally
Q.8 Pipe and Fittings
Q.9 Special Connection, etc
Q.10 Labour
Q.11 Sundries
Q.12 Pipework Support
Q.13 Connection

EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLARIES

Q.19 Generally
Q.20 Antivibration and sound
insulation
Q.21. Equipment support
Q.22. Jointing
Q.24. Identification plates
BUILDERS WORK
Q.31 Generally
Q.32. Particularly

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.2 Clasification of Work
D.Fire Fighting Installation

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
GENERALLY
Q.1 INFORMATION
FIRE FIGHTING INSTALLATION
Generally
Q.1.
Information
1 Particulars of the following shall be given :
a)
Regulation, etc.
b)
Kind and quality of material.
c)
Gauge, thickness or substance of material.
d)
Any tests, etc.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS

Q.1.2 Assembling and jointing together the component

parts of composite units and providing any necessary
connecting flanges and jointing materials shall be deemed
to be included with the items concerned. Where composite
units are supplied by the Employer, particulars shall be
given of the assembly work involved.

Q.1.3 Patterns, moulds, templets and the like shall be

deemed to be included with the items.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS

Q.1.4 Priming and painting off-site and proprietary

finishes or surface treatment applied as part of the
production process shall be described stating whether
applied before or after fabrication or assembly.

Q.1.5 Except where otherwise stated the method of fixing

and the provision of nails, bolts, nuts, holes, screws, plugs,
shot-fired pins and the like shall be given in the description
of the work.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.1.6 The nature of the background to which work is to be
fixed shall be given in the description. Any necessary
drilling of the backgrounds shall be deemed to be
included. Backgrounds shall be classified as follows :
a) Building-board which shall be deemed to include
hardboard, compressed cement sheet, plasterboard,
fibreboard and similar materials which do not grip
woodscrews.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.1.6 The nature of the background .

b) Timber which shall be deemed to include

softwood, hardwood, blockboard, plywood and
similar materials which will grip wood-screws when a
lead-hole has been drilled.
c) brickwork, concrete or stone work
d) plain metal
e) glass

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.1.7.

deemed

Temporary work shall be so described. Removing

temporary work and making good after shall be
to be included with the item.

Q.1.8.

Connecting to existing services shall be described

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
GENERALLY
Q.2. CLASSIFICATION OF WORK
Q.2.1 Work together with its metalwork, supports and the like
(unless associated with more than one installation) shall be
classified as follows and given under an appropriate
heading :
d)

Fire Fighting Installation

SETS OF FIRE FIGHTING EQUIPMENTS

Fire alarm

Portable FE
Hose Reel

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.3. LOCATION OF WORK
Location of works :
a. Internally
b. Externally
c. In plant rooms

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
PIPE WORKS

Q.7 GENERALLY

1. Purpose-made pipes and purpose-made pipe fittings shall

be described.

2. Pipes and pipe fittings which are wrapped, coated or lined

by the manufacturer shall be so described stating the type of
treatment.

3. Pipework required to be temporarily fixed in position,

dismantled for chromium-plating or other special finishing
and subsequently refixed shall be so described.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.8 PIPE AND FITTING
1.
Pipes (measured over all pipe fittings, short running
lengths and branches) shall be given in metres stating the
type and the normal size.
Purpose-made pipe shall be so described and given
separately. Curved pipes shall be so described stating the
mean radius.
Joints in the running length shall be given in the
description stating the method of jointing.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.8 PIPE AND FITTING
3. Flexible pipes and extensible pipes (measured as fully
extended) shall each be so described.
4. Pipes laid or fixed in ducts, trenches and chases or embedded
in in-situ concrete or screeds shall each be so described.

Pipe Fittings: FIRE FIGHTING INSTALLATIONS

PIPING INSIDE SWITCH ROOM

HEAT DETECTOR

CONDUIT

HOSE REEL PIPE

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.9. SPECIAL CONNECTIONS, ETC.
1.

Special connections and special joints in pipes shall

each be enumerated separately (except where given in
the description of another enumerated item) stating the
nominal size and kind of pipe concerned and the method of
jointing. Classification shall be as follows :
a) Connections between pipes of differing materials and
differing grades of the same material.
b) Connections between pipes and appliances or
equipment.
c) Connections to existing pipes.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.10.LABOURS

Labours on pipes (e.g. made bends, made springs, made

offsets, beaded ends, ornamental ends, etc.) shall be deemed
to be included with the pipes on which they occur.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.11 SUNDRIES
6. Pipe-sleeves through walls, floors ceilings shall be
enumerated stating the type, lengths, the nominal size and kind
of pipe passing through and the type of packing
required, and
if to be supplied for fixing by other trades, this shall be so
described.
7.
Wall, floor or ceiling plates shall be grouped together
as plates and enumerated stating the type
and
size.

PIPE-SLEEVES

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.12

PIPEWORK SUPPORTS

12.1

Standard pipe supports shall be given in the description

of the pipes stating the type and spacing of the supports.

12.2.

Non-standard pipe supports shall be described and

enumerated (no).

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.12 PIPEWORK SUPPORTS
12.1

Standard pipe supports shall be given in the

description of the pipes stating the type and
spacing of the supports.

12.2. Non-standard pipe supports shall be described

and enumerated (no).

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.12 PIPEWORK SUPPORTS
4. Components or assemblies of components (e.g.
clips, saddles, pipe-hooks, holderbats, brackets,
rollers, chairs and hangers or black-plates and girderlugs) used to fix supports for more than one pipe shall
be enumerated separately stating the type and size of
components. Spring compensated components shall
be so described stating the loading and movement to
be accommodated.

Pipe Supports: FIRE FIGHTING INSTALLATIONS

PIPE SUPPORT

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Q.13 CONNECTIONS
Connections to public mains, making good public
highway and any other work which may only be carried
out by a Public Undertaking or Local Authority shall be
given as a provisional sum.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLARIES
Q.19 Generally
1. Unless otherwise stated, equipment such as
boilers, generators, heaters, water treatment plant,
tanks cylinders, calorifiers, pumps, coolers, airhandling unit, fans, refrigerator equipment, meters,
sanitary fittings, etc. and ancillaries such as soot
doors to boilers, valves and cocks, gauges,
automatic controls etc. shall be enumerated and
related to the specification referred to in clause
Q.1.1.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLLARIES
Q.19 Generally
2.

Shall be described in conjunction with a

manufacturers detailed specification (Q.19.2)

3.

Any limiting dimensions on the size shall be

given. (Q.19.3)

4.

Electrical connection shall be given in

accordance with section R . (Q.19.4)

Electrical & Diesel Pump: FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS

Main pump is fully operated by

electricty

Standy by or back up pump when

the electrical pump can not
function due to electricity shut
down

135 main flow, 40 m pressure and

2900 rpm

Equipment and ancillaries, Q.19.

and measured in NO

Water Storage Tank: FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
Equipments and
ancillaries
Clause Q.19.
Unless otherwise
stated, equipment
such as tank shall be
enumerated (no).

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLLARIES
Q.20 Anti-vibration and sound insulation
Anti-vibration mountings for plant shall be
enumerated stating the type and the size. Antivibration material and sound-insulating material in
plant bases shall be given in square metres stating
the nature of the material and the thickness.

Anti Vibration Material: FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLLARIES
Q.21 Equipment supports
1.
Equipment supports shall be enumerated and
described.
2. Particulars of the method of fixing shall be
given in the description in accordance with
clauses Q.1.5-6.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLLARIES
Q.22 Jointing
Particulars of the method of jointing shall be given in
the description of the equipment.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
EQUIPMENT AND ANCILLLARIES
Q.24 Identification Plates
Identification plates shall be deemed to be included.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
SUNDRIES
Q.30 Generally
1. Draining and refilling existing system shall be
given as a provisional or prime cost sum.
2. Disconnecting, setting aside and refixing
equipment for the convenience of other trades shall
be given as an item stating the relevant particulars.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
SUNDRIES
Q.30 Generally
3. Temporarily operating each installation (except
for testing) shall be given as an item stating
any
required qualifications of the attendant, the duration of
the operating period in hours and the purpose
and
particulars of any special insurance cover required by
the Employer. Provision of solid fuel, liquid fuel, gas
and electricity for power and lighting
shall
be
deemed to be included with the item

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
SUNDRIES
Q.30 Generally
4. Testing each installation shall be given as an item stating any
required qualifications of the attendant, the number of stage
tests in addition to the final, the purpose of the tests, the
instruments and appliances required to be provided and
particulars of any special insurance cover required by the
Employer. Provision of solid fuel, liquid fuel, gas and
electricity for power and lighting shall be deemed to be
included with the item.
5. Preparing plans or diagrams of the installations as fitted shall
be given as an item stating the kind of information required to
be shown and the number of copies of each drawing required
to be provided.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
BUILDERS WORK
Q.31 GENERALLY

1.

2.

Unless otherwise stated, all items of builders

shall be given in accordance with the appropriate
section.
Builders works in connection with plumbing and
mechanical engineering installations shall be
grouped together under an appropriate heading.

Measurement Rules : FIRE FIGHTING

INSTALLATIONS
BUILDERS WORK
Q.32 PARTICULARLY
1. Excavating trenches for pipes not exceeding 55mm
nominal size shall be given in accordance with
clause D.12.9
2. For pipe over 55mm shall be given in accordance
with clause V.2
3. Cutting away for making good after M&E
works

TAKING OFF LIST

Taking off Lists: FIRE FIGHTING INSTALLATIONS

1.Hose Reel System
Swing hose reel
Water tank
Electrical duty pump
Diesel standby pump

3.Brass Works
Ball float valve
Strainer valve
Stop valve
Flexible connection
Check valve
Gate valve
Pressure gauge

2.Pipe Works
Incoming pipe
Distribution pipe
Rising pipe
Painting to pipe

4.Fire Alarm System

5.Portable Fire Extinguisher
6.Builders work
7.Testing

TAKING OFF LIST

Preamble
Hose Reel System

Swing hose reel - NO

Water storage tank - NO
Electrical duty pump - NO
Diesel standby pump - NO

Piping Works
50 mm Diameter incoming pipe - M
50 mm Diameter rising pipe M
50 mm Diameter distribution pipe - M

Brasswork

50 mm Diameter air release valve NO

50 mm Diameter gate valve NO
50 mm Diameter check valve NO
50 mm Diameter strainer valve NO
50 mm Diameter flexible joint NO
25 mm Diameter gate valve NO

TAKING OFF LIST

Fire Alarm System

Control gear NO
Junction box NO
Manual break glass NO
2 x 2.5 mm cable M
50 mm Diameter conduit M

Portable Fire Extinguisher

9 kg Fire extinguisher - NO
Hydrant Hose Cabinet NO

Lighting Installation
Keluar sign - NO
5A Emergency light NO

Testing
Allow for testing the foregoing fire fighting system ITEM

Builders Work
Excavate trench to receive pipe - M

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