ACCESS CONTROL - EXTERIOR AND VERTICAL

●LOCATION - Xinyei district, Taipei, Taiwan Observa vators

●TYPE- Office complex (Taiwan stock exchange + Mall )
●ARCHITECT- C.Y. Lee & Partners
●HEIGHT PRECEDED BY- Petronas Towers
●HEIGHT SURPASSED BY- Burj Khalifa
●CONSTRUCTION- 1999-2004
●HEIGHT- 508 m
●NO. OF FLOORS- 101

The average area of each floor plate in Taipei 101

ranges from 2,500 m2 to 3,000 m2 (26910 t
There are about 11,000 people working in the building
and less than 700 people in the observatory a
2 single-deck, 1,600 kg (24 persons) per deck
2004 Guinness Record fastest elevators in the
world with aerodynamic, with aerodynamic
ACCESS CONTROL- PERSONAL ACCESS pressure controlled cabs, ascend at 1,010 m/min.
VISITOR ACCESS KIOSK SYSTEM (VAKS)
Passenger Elevators
The visitor contacts the tenant using a
10 double-deck, 2,040 kg (31 persons) per deck
telephone at the side of the informa
vators serving the transfer floors
desk. With tenant’s authoriza or
24 double-deck, 1,350 kg (20 persons) per deck,
will receive the proper permits to access the
for access within 6 sub-zones (4 in each sub-zone)
op ally controlled gate.
3 single-deck (various c
The system keeps a complete record and knows
the number of visitors as well as the floors they
ar tes the faults and hassles
Service Elevators Accessibility :
of tr sonal informa
leaks and also prevents unsolicited visitors.
3 single-deck (2×2,040 kg, 1×4,800 kg) 3 Retail, 2 Office

Car Park Elevators Vehicular access -

SMART CARD ACCESS SYSTEM Automa�c payment machines along
6 single-deck, 1,600 kg to tower lobby the barriers charged as per no. of hrs.
Ticket based entrnace,
The elevators and entrance guarding the TAIPEI
101 TOWER is electronically controlled by the Elevator Speed
Smartcard Access System 24 hours a day.
1010 m/min, observa ors can travel from Level B1 to 89 in 39 seconds.
All tenant staff must hold a programmed And descending at 610 m/min (36.6 km/hr).
smartcard in order to access the tower.

On site workers, persons without access cards

or invalid access cards must be checked by official SAFETY FIRE
personnel at the Informa ounter on level 1 to
confirm their iden y be ●Indoor fire hydrants on each floor
allowed to gain accesses to the tower as a visitor. ●Heavily armed professional firefighters
w e 24 hours a day
PASSENGER ELEVATOR SECURITY MODE In case of emergency, an emergency response center
will immediately be set up in this building to allow the
When a tenant or staff member wants to go to his fire brigade to enter the disaster preven ter
office floor a er normal working hours, he must and to set up a disaster preven ommand center.
swipe his card at the Elevator Card Reader to
ate the elevator to arrive at his floor.
. FIRE PREVENTION
Those without access cards need to enquire and
register with the security guard at the informa - Non-flammable materials specified for use for base building and fit-out
desk for a visitor’s pass, and personnel from the work throughout building. The tenants’ interior fit out work must also use
tenant’s floor must come to the lobby to escort non flammable materials.
their visitor to their premises. - Firewalls, shu�ers and protec�ve wall fillings divide building into discrete
fire zones.
- Air condi�oning, automa�cally cut off where smoke detected.
HVAC
Each of its 101 floors was air c our Fire proofing on steel beams
19XR centrifuges, 197 air-c s and 2233
air-convectors. The air supply system was integrated in
the ligh ystem for be er air dis FIRE FIGHTING

HVAC System - Addressable detectors distributed throughout building

The HVAC system consists of the chiller, the glycol chiller con�nously take air samples to detect unusal fog .
and the ice storage tank. - CCTV cameras in tower are also used for fire mo�noring.
HVAC System Operation
- The chiller produces chilled water for night FIRE DETECTION
c
- The glycol chiller precools the glyc - Addressable detectors distributed throughout building
passes through the ice storage tank, to supply day con�nously take air samples to detect unusal fog .
air c - CCTV cameras in tower are also used for fire mo�noring.
- Variable Air Volume (VAV) boxes per floor.
- Individual control provides ability to vary temperature
and wind speed.
- Automa�c sprinkler system throughout building. Basement and mechanical floor
- Separate 24-hour chilled water supply for computer
are equipped with water tanks.
rooms provided upon request.
- The mechanical floor water tank is driven by gravity so that power failure does not
HVAC Supply
interrupt water supply.
To ensure the op orking environment, the
- each floor is quipped with fire hydrants and fire ex�nguisgers, and parking lot uses foam
design of the HVAC system is based on the standards
fire extenguishers
of other world class architectures, the local weather
- Transformer and power generator is protected by CO2 anf FM-200 gases.
pa erns and future opera trategies.

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