Poole Fire Protection served as the qualified fire protection engineer performing fire modeling, and smoke and exit travel time study for the Tractor Supply Distribution Center warehouse and new office area totaling approximately 800,000 sq. ft. of space in Casa Grande, AZ.

Services provided for this building was a Smoke and Exit Travel Time Study consisting of two sets of FDS models and FPE Tools calculations.  In this study, Poole Fire Protection compared the time it takes for building conditions to be untenable in the event of a fire (available safe egress time – ASET) and the required safe egress time (RSET) to exit the facility.  The fire protection methodologies intended for use are developed by the International Code Council (ICC), Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE), and The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).