University of South Florida, Judy Genshaft Honors College Building

SGH collaborated with the architectural team to address complex fire life safety conditions. Highlights of our work include:

• Reviewing the proposed design for code compliance and identifying areas needing special consideration
• Performing computational fluid dynamics analyses for the multi-story atrium and optimizing atrium exhaust and supply quantities to accommodate architectural and mechanical constraints
• Preparing the smoke control rational analysis required for the atrium and providing guidance for commissioning the smoke control system
• Developing a series of fire modeling simulations to evaluate the performance of the atrium’s smoke control based on as-built exhaust and supply capacities