Red is the standard color code for all fire fighting and fire protection systems and equipment as far as I know.įire sprinkler pipes, wet riser pipes, hose reel pump control panels, etc are all painted with red color.

In this project the red color has been chosen because these FR cables supplies the equipment of the building’s fire fighting system. I think the manufacturer can manufacture the cables to any color you wish.

You can see in the picture that all the outer sheath of the FR cables are red colored. That is why the cables are of bigger size than those for the lift motor room electrical panel. These include smoke spill fans, staircase pressurization fans, etc. The loads of the fan rooms were mostly electric driven motors that run fire protection fans. The circuit on the left edge of the cable tray was supplying two fan rooms, which were also at the roof level. The LV Room houses all main switchboards (MSB’s) for the building. The copper tape on the right edge of the vertical cable tray is the common earth and it is connected to the main electric grounding bar at the LV Room on the ground floor of the building. The circuit on the right (with the smaller cables) was supplying the lift motor room at the roof level of the building. These cables were taken in a cable riser at a multi-storey building.Īll these cables are single-cores. This picture shows two circuits employing FR electric cables installed on a vertical cable tray. = RELATED ARTICLES: MATV trunking riser | Cable ladder pictures | Electrical conduits and trunking pictures | Electrical panel under water pipes | Electrical busduct installation pictures | Electric conduit installation pictures | Electric trunking installation pictures | Electric Panel Installation Pictures | Multi storey building electric closets | Underfloor trunking pictures | Site-fabricated electrical trunking | Electrical Services Color Codes | Light switch installation pictures | Electrical installation pictures Even though these cables are a direct replacement of mineral insulated copper cables (MICC) for high-rise buildings, the installation here is the same as for normal XLPE or PVC-insulated cables. There is nothing special about the installation of the fire-rated (FR) cables.

The following few pictures show the installation of FR electrical cables.

Cable tray installation pictures