design of a filling station 2

[bandaradmk]

Im a senior architect/Pkg manager in Qatar who needs to design a filling station in a govt institutional complex with 1.8 million sq meters. Could I know the info or any relavant web site for me to receive detail to design this building.
Appreciate your advise.
Bandara

 

[Ron]

Are you kidding? There is no such site. Get some help from someone who has done this before. It is too complex to learn from a website.

 

[bandaradmk]

im not kiddding. there are standards, design basis related to the designing of petrol station like other entities. if you have such info the design provisions, no of pumps, fuel tank capacities etc can be considered in the design as per the probable demand, function and no of petrol diesel vehicles. pls make a note that i meant more advance answer than your ordinary generic one.

 

[bridgebuster]

Since it's a government facility I guess you're not putting in a convenience store with it?

Why don't you ask your client has much gas they pump each day or anticipate pumping then you can size your tanks; perhaps assume there's a delivery every three days. Is it just to pump gas or will there be service bays for repairs? You need to ask your client about how they envision this facility being used.

Gomer Pyle and Goober Pyle are retired so they're not available as potential filling station employees.

 

[LittleInch]

You don't actually give us much info here - 1.8 million sq meters of what? Desert? Housing? Factories? Kind of makes quite a difference.

I can't quite believe that you are being asked to work out whether your filling station should have 20 filling pumps or 2 without the client giving you some sort of info about number of vehicles, types of vehicles, people, is this the only one there etc.

Then you can try and work out peak numbers of cars filling at the same time, volume of your tanks, area of the facility and so on.

what are you designing - the building or the whole facility?

My motto: Learn something new every day

Also: There's usually a good reason why everyone does it that way

 

[bridgebuster]

Maybe Wawa or Sheetz would be interested in developing the site.

 

[chicopee]

Cronyism at work in Qatar.

 

[oldestguy]

Look up other government agencies, such as Building Inspection Agency and see if they have published their standards on their web site. In the states, many states have design manuals on web sites. What this means you have to do some looking. Perhaps do searches for "Design manual hazardous materials buildings, etc."

 

[sam74]

Try googling this "military fuel filling station design guidelines"

You should find a few Whole Building Design Guideline (WBDG) documents at the top of the list. These documents are generally a compilation of military guidelines which would be another good place to look. Places like the army corps of engineers website for technical manuals and such.

 

[boo1]

Link to QCS:

http://www.moe.gov.qa

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