Steyning Grammar School
When Steyning Grammar School completed the expansion of its boarding facilities earlier this year, the number of student places rose from 70 to 124. As well as the usual study rooms, common room, and living accommodation, the new build also provides kitchen and dining facilities for the Sixth Form students.
Pupil and staff safety has been an influencing factor in all decisions taken regarding the expansion programme, none more so than how best to ensure protection against possible fire risk in the new kitchen.
With a commercial kitchen it’s not just the hot oils and naked flames that cause the high fire risk. Research has shown that in many cases problems can exist in the kitchen extract systems and ventilation ductwork. It’s often the situation that grease and other residue will build up within the system and this will lead to the coating igniting with the consequence of a much larger fire breaking out. The result can lead to the endangering of lives and substantial damage to property.
According to recent reports, insurance companies are increasingly rejecting fire damage claims because protection of the extraction system is often a condition of their policies.
The answer to this potential problem for Steyning Grammar School was to fit a fire suppression system specifically designed for commercial kitchens that protects both the cooking area and the ductwork on a permanent basis. Designed by Nobel Fire Systems, the K-Series is the only system on the market that takes into consideration the risk beyond the entrance to the duct. Only the K-Series provides fire risk cover from the last nozzle at the extract plenum downstream along the entire length of the ductwork to the extract fan and/or point of extract to the external environment.
