Fire Fighting & Fire Alarm System with Quantity Take-off

Explore fire extinguisher types, their color codes, and suitable fire class applications, plus basic usage steps and the role of hose reels in building safety.

Explore the eight types of firefighting systems: extinguishers, hose reels, hydrants, sprinklers, fire blankets, foam flooding, gas plotting, and FM 200, and understand each type in depth.

Explore the fm 200 fire suppression system, a modern waterless solution that activates with detectors and alarms to release a colorless gas and extinguish fires quickly.

Explore alarm check valve assemblies that control water flow to sprinkler systems. Learn OS&Y gate valves with outside stem and yoke, zone control valves, and four-way breaching inlets.

Learn about fire alarm and voice annunciation systems, including smoke and heat detectors, duct detectors, remote alarm indicators, manual and automatic fire alarm stations, and control modules.

Explore fire alarm architecture with single input riser modules, universal modules, booster power supplies, and circuits for horns, strobes, voice evacuation, end-of-line resistors, and the main control panel.

Learn to perform fire alarm system take-offs by manually counting intelligent smoke detectors, heat detectors, and accessories from drawings, organizing data by description, quantity, and units for Excel.

Learn to prepare fire fighting system quantity take-offs by measuring pipes and fittings, applying a 10% length allowance, and performing rate analysis for total cost estimates.

Install Planswift to perform quantity take-offs for fire fighting and fire alarm systems. Apply the software to support accurate measurements.

Learn to start a PlanSwift project, set metric settings, and open pdf or jpg drawings for quantity take-off in fire fighting and fire alarm system work.

Master PlanSwift basics for fire fighting and fire alarm system take-off, covering scales, linear and area measurements, counting sprinklers, and exporting to Excel.