The project incorporated a 6-level Retail Mall above an existing parking and transportation structure, with a multi-purpose 5,120 seat concert hall/theatre located at the east end of the Mall (project realization, design stage). The Retail Mall and the Theatre have their own smoke management systems. The project also anticipated future expansion.

SLM analysis defined criteria for the most appropriate smoke management design which minimized smoke spread in means of egress through the utilization of mechanical air-handling system, coupled with sprinklering and effective compartmentation for both the mall and the theatre areas. It enabled evacuation to occur over a longer time period than may be expected in smaller buildings without large floor openings.

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Vilnius Arena (now known as Siemens Arena) was designed as an enclosed, four storey arena building used for the purposes of viewing various sport and concert events. Seating capacity of the stadium is 12,000. The arena building includes various uses that are supplementary to the use of the facility and include building services, concession stands, change rooms, lounges, and a restaurant.

Our role was to indicate the approach for achieving compliance with the applicable requirements of National Fire Protection Association 101 (NFPA 101) for the arena, located in Lithuania, and to outline the principles that formed the basis for applying these fire protection and life safety requirements. Our involvement included meeting with municipal officials to facilitate application of North American code concepts and conceptual design and review of the smoke management systems.

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The Al Maktoum Hospital is a new Health care building to be located in Dubai, United Arab Emirates. Perkins Eastman was selected by the Dubai Health Authority and the Department of Health and Medical Services (DOHMS), to design the most sophisticated Accident and Emergency Hospital of its kind in the UAE. The design creates a facility capable of providing immediate care for minor- to high-level trauma accidents and emergencies. The new state-of-the-art 400 bed facility will be seven storeys in building height with three levels of below grade parking. The building footprint will be approximately 17,200m².

Sereca Larden Muniak Consulting Inc. provided schematic design and design development building code compliance reports which summarized the major aspects of the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101, "Life Safety Code" and regional codes relative to the facility.

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Al-Hamriya Port is a new fishing harbor development in Dubai, UAE. The Port consists of a five-star hotel, leasable offices, four-star hotel and related amenities, restaurants, a Souk, health club, gourmet restaurant, entertainment center, art gallery, flagship stores, hypermarket with flagship store, nautical club and leisure marina, as well as a working fishing port with a dock, marina center, workers’ housing, marina observation platform, and boat yard. The site has been designed to segregate the housing and fishing operation facilities from the retail and tourist portion of the harbor.

Sereca Larden Muniak Consulting Inc. provided a building code and fire protection review of the Master Site Plan for the Al-Hamriya Port. The review consisted of schematic and design drawing reviews, which were detailed in the building code compliance reports. We also focused on preserving the way of life; taking into consideration prayer rooms, and male/female accessibility. SLM was challenged with very tight and almost unachievable time constraints. The complexity of this project made it very interesting and was focused on working with three building code standards; NFPA 101, NFPA 5000 and the JAFZA construction requirements.

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