- Author
- Klote, J. H.
- Title
- Field Tests of the Smoke Control System at the San Diego VA Hospital.
- Coporate
- National Bureau of Standards, Gaithersburg, MD
- Report
- NBSIR 84-2948, November 1984, 18 p.
- Distribution
- Available from National Technical Information Service
- Keywords
- air movement | hospitals | interstitial spaces | pressurization | smoke control | smoke detectors
- Abstract
- The Veterans Administration (VA) has sponsored a project at the Center for Fire Research of the National Bureau of Standards to study smoke control in VA hospitals and to develop new design approaches and methods of acceptance testing. This paper is one report of this ongoing project. It presents the results of a field test on the San Diego VA Hospital.