Gaseous fire suppression systems are used in server rooms to extinguish fires without causing water damage to the servers.
For over 100 years, the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has set the standards for fire safety across the country. Newly built server rooms must be airtight enough to hold the gas agent in the room long enough to put out the fire, while still allowing some air to escape and properly vent the air pressure spiking from the gas discharge. The fire code states that the room must pass an Enclosure Integrity Test performed by a Retrotec Certified expert like D.R. Nelson.
As early adopters of Blower Door technology, we bring you the expertise needed to pass an Enclosure Integrity Test. Working alongside your Fire Protection company, we use a Blower Door to measure the total leakage area of the room using the gas fire suppression system. We will manipulate the airflow to identify trouble spots in the room, and work with you to address those leaks. And if you are paying too much to cool your server room, we specialize in targeted air sealing that can drastically reduce your cooling bill.
D.R. Nelson has provided Enclosure Integrity Testing to server rooms, dyno cells, telephone switch rooms, clean rooms, and nuclear power plant control rooms for companies such as Cray, Chrysler, the Department of Defense, Ford Motor Company, General Electric, General Motors, Honeywell, and Westinghouse in Canada, Columbia, Kuwait, Mexico, the Philippines, Qatar, and across the United States.