Inner City North State Secondary College

One of the first ‘high-rise school’ projects in Queensland, WalkerBai was engaged by Hutchinson Builders on behalf of the department of Education and training to provide the fire engineering for the first stage of the redevelopment of the Inner City North State Secondary College. The project involves the construction of three new buildings; Building 1 (a 6 storey specialist and learning building), a Performing Arts Centre and a Sports centre. Numerous Performance Solutions have been employed to provide a robust fire Safety Strategy for each building and the site as a whole. One particularly challenging aspect of the fire engineering for the school has been the extensive Computational fluid Dynamics modelling conducted using Fire Dynamics Simulator has been undertaken, particularly for Building 1, to provide in-depth analysis on fire scenarios and the resulting egress capabilities.