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Jaber Alhaji

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Kindly I need your Professional Advice for the following inquiry:

Project has an area is approximately 1 million square meters, consists of Apartment, Hotel, Mercantile, and entertainment occupancy. the highest building is 2 story above the ground floor.

gravity tank used for this project to supply the fire hydrant system (no fire pump is using) the inquiry is what is exact fire flow required and requirements for such case and explain if the fire flow related to water tank capacity only or Pumping also.


Think you so much
 
Welcome


Your question has to many variables to answer here.

Plus someone would need to look at plans.

You need to hire a fire protection engineer or similar, to give you the answers.
 
This is a problem for the Registered Design Professional to work out based on required sprinkler density as assigned in NFPA 13 or the applicable standard adopted in your location
 
1 million square meters = 10,763,910 sq. ft. Oh yea get a fire protection engineer involved for a building this large. You may also want to reach out to the property insurance carrier engineering department for what they want.
 
You did not describe where the project is located, so we don't know what building or fire code you would reference for design criteria.
 
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