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Civil construction

Fire safety and smoke control, stairwell pressurization, thermal comfort, ventilation and air conditioning, and pollutant dispersion, with fire department approval.

Visibility in meters 3,600 s after the start of a fire in an exhibition hall, computed with CFD.
Visibility in meters 3,600 s after the start of a fire in an exhibition hall, computed with CFD.

Engineering with simulation

In buildings, simulation shows what prescriptive codes cannot: how smoke spreads, how long escape routes stay visible, where air does not reach and where pollutants go. ATS applies to buildings and construction the same CFD engineering it uses in aerospace, with studies accepted by the São Paulo Fire Department.

  • Fire DepartmentCFD studies accepted and approved in São Paulo
  • 3,600 sof fire simulated to release an exhibition hall whose construction was halted
  • 150+processor cores in the ATS in-house cluster

Five fronts in civil construction

  1. 1

    Fire and smoke control

    Fire and smoke spread, smoke extraction and visibility along escape routes, for design and approval.

  2. 2

    Stairwell and room pressurization

    Pressure differential between floors and stairwells to keep smoke from spreading.

  3. 3

    Thermal comfort

    Temperature and ventilation in buildings, warehouses and hangars, against heat exposure limits.

  4. 4

    Ventilation and air conditioning

    Air distribution, temperature and humidity in process rooms and controlled environments.

  5. 5

    Pollutant dispersion

    Air quality and emission dispersion with AERMOD, for environmental licensing.

“ATS4i carried out several CFD studies in fire engineering, with results accepted and approved by the technical staff of the São Paulo Fire Department.”

Carlos Cotta Rodrigues, CEO, Carlos Cotta Engenharia Translated from Portuguese.

Services for civil construction

Fire safety partnership

For fire, smoke and thermal comfort work in civil construction, ATS works together with Carlos Cotta Engenharia, a specialist fire-safety engineering firm.

Carlos Cotta Engenharia

Carlos Cotta Engenharia has over 25 years in fire-protection design, approval, installation and testing (AVCB/AVS). Its technical work is recognized by São Paulo’s Fire Department (Corpo de Bombeiros), where it has lectured and analyzed projects for the department’s technical commissions, and by the Instituto de Engenharia, where Carlos Cotta Rodrigues has served as a counselor since 2018. ATS’s CFD analysis for fire, smoke and thermal comfort is applied together with Carlos Cotta Engenharia’s fire-safety engineering.

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