Fire and life safety are pivotal considerations in today’s building designs. The integration of fire alarm systems, fire protection, life safety, and other fire protection systems into the design of all building types is essential for safety, property protection and code compliance.
Over the past few decades, fire and building safety services evolved to tackle unprecedented new hazards and threatsleads the development of innovative solutions for complex safety challenges.

When starting the design process, your primary goals with a new fire protection system are to safeguard people, reduce recovery time, and protect property.
Here are some steps you can follow to achieve all those goals and get the fire protection system that perfectly fits the needs of your project.

• Achieving Compliance with Codes
• DesigningFADS ( Fire Alarm &Detection system)
• Designing Fire Fighting/ Suppression System

Achieving Compliance with Codes
What's the first thing you need to consider when setting out to design a new fire protection system? Answer is: Being in compliance with code. You can refer prevailing NBC code for updated minimum legal requirements. Apart from NBC, we keep in mind the prevailing local fire body/superintendent’s requirements.
Being "up to code" means you are at least meeting the minimum legal requirements for your facility. You'll find that fire codes vary from one area to the next, so it's necessary to get educated on the requirements in your area before you invest time and money designing a system.

Designing FADS (Fire Alarm & Detection system)
Detection System: which includes Smoke Sensors, Heat Sensors, Beam Detectors, etc. which detects the fire in early stages.
The fire protection system is going to have to provide you with early detection capabilities. The latest technology is enabling modern systems to get much smarter about detection. It's now possible to accurately differentiate between low and high levels of danger.
Investing in a heat detector capable of triggering an alarm before smoke is present will give an even higher level of protection.
The difference between a good detection system and a bad detection system is often the difference between being able to stop a small fire and a small fire growing into something much more damaging.

Notification & Alarm System:
Which include, Manual call button, hooters/ Sounders/ Strobe, GSM Dialler, repeater panels, etc.
A fire alarms is an essential tool in any facility, and it's obviously an important part of your fire protection system. Alarms provide warning to people inside your building, but, just as importantly, they also alert emergency personnel who need to respond to the situation as quickly as possible.
Notification technology allows alarm systems to give vital information to emergency responders, including the location and severity of the fire, so that the proper personnel and equipment can be dispatched exactly where it's needed most. Alarms can help even further by playing recorded messages instructing people in a building to exit in the safest possible fashion.
The alarm systemscan also be able to hooked up to a facility's ventilation system in order to help control smoke.

Designing Fire Fighting/ Suppression System:
which include Wet and Dry Type Fire Protection Systems, Gas Fire Suppression Systems, Fire Pumps & Standpipe Systems, Sprinkler system, hose box, hose reels, landing valve, fire extinguishers etc…
When the alarm system is triggered, it engages a suppression system designed to at least contain a fire until it can be extinguished. Fire Hydrant standpipe system &A sprinkler system is the most common form of water based fire suppression.
For facilities where water is not an option (for instance, if water suppression will destroy sensitive equipment), gas/ chemical suppression systems are an option. Portable Fire extinguishers are common type of gas/ chemical based suppression systems.