high temperature lining

Overview

HTL live fire training structure designs offer a logical balance between initial construction costs and long-term maintenance expenses while providing the safest training environment possible. These designs render affordable, yet extremely durable, training structures that include multiple burn rooms on each level. The structures we design are protected throughout with System 203, the best structural protective lining system available today.

Responder Series Training Structure

Rescuer Series Training Structure

We also protect existing structures. To the left is a shot of the interior of Harrisburg Area Comm. College, which presented a real challenge to our craftsmen.

We have customers all over the United States, as well as in other countries. Therefore, even though we are licensed general contractors in many states, it is impractical for HTL to act as the general contractor on most new burn buildings. Why send crews from Virginia to build a building in Nebraska? In such cases, HTL will assist the customer in designing and budgeting their entire project, including the great details we have developed over the years. The structures are then constructed by local contractors. We find that this local participation in the construction process makes sense economically and politically while delivering a first-class training facility to our customerss.

HTL provides the labor to install our advanced lining systems, like System 203. We also furnish and install temperature monitoring systems and firebrick floors. Finally, we manufacture refractory lintels to be installed by your masons over burn room doors and windows.

HTL does act as the general contractor on most renovation projects, self performing concrete repair work, masonry work, and the installation of doors, windows, etc.

When assisting in the design of a live fire training structure, HTL anticipates the following:

• Burns will be conducted throughout the structure
  
• Fire loadings will vary to some degree and fire is not always controllable 
  
• Standard operating procedures may be violated on occasion Fires will not be confined to the rooms containing the fire loading
  
• Fires often extend to adjacent rooms or out of windows and doors
  
• Maintenance money is hard to come by and unscheduled down time is unacceptable
  
• Training evolutions will likely increase annually due to logistical demand
  

Per standard operating procedures, after a fire is ignited, it is fed with additional Class A materials to increase its intensity.

Wood pallets and straw or hay are just some of the items used in Class A fire evolution training.

Our designs include the following:

• System 203 throughout the structure
• Multiple burn rooms on each level
• Temperature monitoring systems (TMS) throughout
• Durable doors and window shutters that can be easily replaced
• Ventilation simulator props
• Forced entry simulators
• Fire brick floors throughout to prevent spalling and burned knees
• Optional garages, commercial spaces, stair towers, etc.

Doors/Window shutters

Ventilation hatch

Fire brick floor