Car Parks | Smoke Control & Louvres

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Car park ventilation

Colt International car park ventilation systems can provide effective smoke clearance and smoke control in underground and enclosed car parks, assisting safe evacuation, supporting firefighting operations and providing day-to-day ventilation.

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Our car park smoke ventilation systems

Through our dedicated in-house design team and leading range of solutions, Colt International can develop tailored car park smoke control, smoke clearance and ventilation systems which protect and enhance your asset. Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) modelling, we can develop systems that are fully optimised for your car park and ensure compliance with the regulatory requirements for these spaces.

Smoke clearance systems

Our car park smoke clearance systems can quickly remove smoke after a fire has been extinguished, limiting potential damage to cars, the building structure and other assets. By combining specialist products (such as our Jetstream impulse fan) with CFD modelling approaches, we can avoid the need for additional ductwork and mechanical extraction, lowering installation, maintenance and running costs.

Smoke control systems

Our smoke control systems can help support the safe evacuation of car parks and allow firefighters to reach and tackle the fire more easily. These systems help to control the flow of smoke within the space, providing an alternative to compartmentation approaches, and extracting the smoke and hot gases from the car park.

Day-to-day ventilation

In addition to providing smoke control and clearance, we can also design our systems to maintain air quality within the car park by removing exhaust gases and drawing in fresh air, preventing the build-up of carbon monoxide and ensuring the building complies with car park ventilation standards.

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Using louvres in our car park projects

Our single, double and triple banked louvre systems offer a durable and low-maintenance solution for car park facades, providing simple aesthetics, natural ventilation and rain defence.

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Maintaining smoke control systems in car parks

With a UK-wide network of highly experienced and trained engineers, Colt International can help to keep your car park's smoke ventilation system fully serviced and maintained. We are happy to service any system, regardless of who installed or manufactured it, and can make recommendations on where improvements can be made to enhance the performance of existing systems or even realise more spaces in your car park. All our service work is conducted to SFG20, ensuring full compliance with the latest standards and best practice, and we support our engineers with an extensive spare parts service to allow rapid repairs. With 24/7 365 call-outs and priority response to emergency issues, we can keep your car park operating safely and compliantly.

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Ceiling-mounted ventilation system in a parking garage with metal ducts and a red control box, under fluorescent lighting.

Working with Colt

Colt can support you from the initial design stages through to long-term maintenance to keep your facility operating efficiently.

Design

Our in-house team uses the latest CFD modelling approaches to accurately simulate how smoke and air will flow through your facility. This allows us to carefully tailor the system for both new and existing car parks, ensuring the optimal placement of smoke control and/or smoke clearance technologies to provide a fully compliant system and best value for money.

Manufacture

All components are manufactured to exacting standards and we can carefully coordinate and schedule delivery with site teams to meet agreed timelines.

Installation & Commissioning

Our experienced installers can handle the installation and commissioning of your system, ensuring all elements are performing as expected before handover.

Maintenance

We operate a network of service engineers across the UK and can carry out regular service and maintenance on your system to extend its lifespan and ensure it is performing correctly.

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FAQs

What are the car park ventilation standards?

Car parks’ smoke control and ventilation systems are subject to a range of regulations and standards. These include guidance documents which support the Building Regulations.

For fire:

For ventilation:

Approved Document F (England and Wales)
Technical Handbook 3 – Environment (Scotland)
Technical Booklet K (Northern Ireland)

In addition, specific industry standards and guidance which also apply include:

Can the Colt team work on underground car park ventilation?

Yes, Colt International can design, manufacture, install and maintain underground car park ventilation and smoke control systems. With decades of experience, we can develop systems which ensure full compliance with the latest standards, supporting the safe long-term operation of your car park.