Attendees qualify for a Certificate of Completion.
When a fire ignites beneath a 40-foot ceiling, every second of detection delay matters — and conventional spot detectors are often too far away, too diluted by airflow, or simply too late. In high-ceiling environments like distribution centers, data centers, cold storage, and aircraft hangars, standard smoke detection strategies routinely fall short.
This webinar cuts through the guesswork of protecting these challenging spaces. You’ll learn why height, airflow, plume dilution, thermal gradients, and smoke stratification conspire to keep smoke from ever reaching a ceiling-mounted detector — and how aspirating smoke detection (ASD) is engineered to solve exactly that problem.
We’ll walk through the US codes, standards, and AHJ approval framework that govern ASD design — including NFPA 72, NFPA 75, NFPA 76, NFPA 318, UL 268, UL 268A, UL 864, and applicable FM requirements — plus the US-specific performance terminology (Standard, Early Warning, and Very Early Warning detection) you need to speak the same language as your AHJ. We’ll also flag the upcoming UL 268 requirements raising the bar on airflow supervision, pipe modeling, and transport-time accuracy, so you’re ahead of the curve instead of scrambling to catch up.
From there, we get practical: how ASD systems actually work, how they stack up against spot detection, and where they deliver the biggest advantage — distribution centers, data centers, cold storage, aircraft facilities, cleanrooms, atriums, and other hard-to-reach spaces. You’ll leave with a working understanding of sampling-pipe network design: where to place sampling points, how to route and branch pipe, how to run the calculations that verify performance, and how much design margin to build in for real-world installation.
Whether you’re specifying, designing, or approving fire detection for a challenging space, this session gives you the codes knowledge and design fundamentals to get it right the first time — backed by Kidde Global Solutions’ ModuLaser and MiniLaser platforms