06/10/2026
🚗🔥 Effective Smoke Ventilation in Enclosed Car Parks: From Design Strategy to Real-World Performance
A well-designed car park smoke ventilation system is about more than simply extracting smoke. It requires a carefully coordinated strategy to manage smoke movement, support safe evacuation, and facilitate firefighting operations.
Key design principles include:
🔹 Activation Strategy: Determining the appropriate system activation delay through RSET vs ASET analysis to balance evacuation safety with effective smoke control.
🔹 Smoke Containment and Zoning: Strategically using jet fans and selected extract shafts to control airflow, limit smoke migration, and confine smoke to the fire-affected zone.
🔹 Firefighting Access: Maintaining a clear and accessible route to the fire location to support fire service intervention and improve operational safety.
🔹 Post-Fire Smoke Clearance: Ensuring effective smoke extraction after fire suppression to facilitate safe access, re-entry, and recovery operations.
🎥 This video is showing these principles for two fire scenarios can be translated into a practical smoke ventilation strategy, demonstrating the importance of coordinated system design and operation in enclosed car parks.
