Risk mitigation rather than loss adjustment: Active fire prevention in the world's biggest high-bay freezer warehouse

摘要

WAGNER has provided an active fire prevention solution for the world's largest high-bay freezer warehouse in Richland, WA, USA. With doing so, WAGNER stride a new path as it is the first building in the US being protected by an OxyReduct® active fire prevention system. Conventional sprinkler technology, which is still the norm in the US, would have been pushed to their limits with the company's impressive figures: three protected areas with a total volume of over 1.05 million m3, 35-meter-high shelving systems and 117,000 pallet storage spaces. The warehouse stores and unloads around ±900,000 tons of frozen food per year -primarily French-fries - with an order volume of over US $100 million. OxyReduct® was therefore selected as the fire protection solution with the system being active by suppressing fire before it chance to become established, in an environment that sprinkler systems andfirefighters would be ineffective.