Smoke Control Design Standards made Simple
Do you spend costly project time complying with Smoke Control and Airflow Standards? With the overlapping requirements of Code, Governing Jurisdictions, and Industry Standards, ensuring that your system design is in compliance can be time-consuming. Ventus saves you time by giving you the modeling and analysis tools you need to make this process a breeze, allowing you to focus your time on the engineering decisions that matter.
Smoke Control Standards
We designed Ventus to assist you in complying with a wide range of Smoke Control standards, including:
| Region | Standards |
|---|---|
| European Union | EN12101-2, EN12101-3, EN12101-6, EN12101-7, EN12101-8, EN12101-13, IBC |
| United Kingdom | BS7974-2, BS7974-3, Approved Document B Vols. 1 & 2, IBC |
| United States | NFPA 92, NFPA 101, IBC |
Each of these standards requires careful design considerations to ensure that systems provide the safety necessary during emergency scenarios. Engineers have resorted to opaque spreadsheets or 2D tooling that hide the complexity of real structures, and make the design choices harder than they need to be.
Stairwell Pressurization - Closed Doors
Many Smoke Control standards require the analysis of Stairwell Pressurization systems. With its clear 3D modeling, short simulation time, and clear analysis tooling, Ventus makes your modeling of these systems easy.
Closed door studies are particularly straightforward. The clear data tables in Ventus allow you to quickly analyze your system's compliance with your selected standard. You can easily see whether there are any Flow Paths that exceed your differential pressure requirements. And if you need to adjust your system, the live update feature of Ventus' data tables makes it easy to quickly modify your system, re-run the simulation, and view the updated results in seconds.
Stairwell Pressurization - Open Doors
Open door studies in Ventus are just as easy. With 3D flow visualizations, transient results playback, and clear 2D plotting utilities, Ventus makes the modeling of these scenarios a breeze. Easily determine if your system meets minimum flow requirements when a door opens, and determine how long it takes for that flow to stabilize, using Ventus.
Communicate with your project stakeholders
The visualization and analysis tools in Ventus are powerful allies when crafting reports and communicating key concepts with projects stakeholders. See how Ventus can take your reports to the next level.
Seasonal Temperature Scenarios
Many Smoke Control standards often include requirements to simulate systems with a variety of thermal conditions. With its Weather and Zone Temperature Schedule eiting features, Ventus handles all the work of generating your scenarios. Simply define your temperature requirements, and Ventus will create, run, and load results for all Scenario combinations you specify.
Door State Modeling
Do you need to model a door that opens or closes midway through simulation? With its Multiplier Schedule editing feature, Ventus makes this type of analysis easy. Easily control when a door opens or closes, and quickly plot the flow through the door.
Contaminant Modeling
Modeling smoke and other contaminants in Ventus is easy. Simply inject the contaminants into a Zone in your model, and let Ventus handle the rest. With the Zone Data table visualizations and transient results playback in Ventus, you can easily view concentrations of contaminants in your Zones. By analyzing these concentrations, you can easily see how contaminants flow through your model and make changes to control these flows.
Stairwell Pressurization
Our Stairwell Pressurization tutorials walk through an example Performance-Based Design Analysis and showcases how you can use Ventus to improve your projects.
Contaminant Transport
Our 2 Zone Contaminant Transport tutorial walks through the basics of setting up and analyzing a Contaminant Transport problem in Ventus.
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