RESEARCH ABOUT THE SAFETY AGAINST FIRES IN THE SPANISH HOSPITALS: CURRENT SITUATION AND PROPOSED SOLUTION

Abstract

In this paper it has been developed the topic of the safety against fi res in the spanish hospitals. It is studied the current situation in Spain, analyzing on the one hand the code against fi res of obliged application and on the other one, realizing studies in the own buildings, which allows to come to real conclusions about the existing situation. The previous analysis discovers notable lacks of the code in its application to hospitals, which imply that the current existing situation in these buildings is not the suitable one since, in case of fi re, they do not have at their disposal any means for the protection of the occupant in the building, forcing to make a vertical evacuation that should never be considered to be possible. As a response to the described situation a solution based on the integration of technologies of passive protection before fi res and of active control of the smoke is justifi ed. To sum up, it is a question of offering a solution to the protection against fi res in hospitals that solves the existing problems at the present time, incorporating the new opportunities offered by technology, at the same time that a greater effi ciency is achieved in the used resources.