# Facility: Security and Site Systems What the plant needs beyond the production machinery. Access control, CCTV, and whole-factory HVAC control are set requirements; the rest of this list is what a plant of this profile definitely needs, to be refined during site design. ## Climate control: whole-factory HVAC The entire factory runs under continuous HVAC control, covering temperature, humidity, and particulate matter (PM). This is a set requirement, not an option per room. - **Temperature and humidity**: the process spec already demands 20-26 °C at 35-60% relative humidity for pressing; the same conditioning extends to the whole building so materials, masters, packaging stock, and electronics never sit outside controlled conditions. PVC compound and paper packaging are both humidity-sensitive. - **Particulate matter**: filtration for the whole plant, with stricter tiers by zone. Dust in a groove is an audible defect, so the cutting room and galvanics clean room run at the tightest spec with positive pressure; pressing and packaging run cleaner than ambient; offices and logistics at a baseline tier. Northern Thailand's burning season (roughly February to April) brings some of the world's worst PM2.5 episodes, so intake filtration and building tightness must be designed for those peaks, not for average days. - **Continuous monitoring and alarms**: temperature, humidity, and PM sensors logging in every zone, with alarms on excursions, tied into the plant monitoring below. - **Energy design**: conditioning a whole factory in a tropical climate is a major electrical load on top of the process cooling (up to ~650 kW for the five presses), and it must be included in the solar PV and battery sizing from the start. Heat recovery from the press hall (steam, hydraulics, and hot PVC all reject heat) and from compressors should feed the design rather than fight it. ## Physical security - **Access control**: zoned, not just at the gate. Minimum zones: general production, galvanics clean room (controlled access is already a safety requirement), chemical storage, master/stamper archive, server/IT room, finished goods and shipping, and the visitor corridor. Badge or biometric, with logs. - **CCTV**: entrances, perimeter, loading dock, production floor, chemical storage, archive. Retention policy to be defined; Thai PDPA (personal data protection) applies to camera footage of staff and visitors. - **Intrusion alarm** with monitoring, covering off-hours. - **Perimeter and lighting**: fencing appropriate to the site, lit approaches and parking. - **Visitor management**: sign-in, escort rules, no unaccompanied access to production or galvanics. Tours run through the glazed visitor corridor ([crane, workshop and tours](crane-workshop-tours.md)), which keeps visitors out of noise, dust and plating air and so needs no PPE; anyone who goes onto the floor itself is escorted and issued PPE at entry as before. ## Protecting the irreplaceable - **Master and stamper archive**: fathers and mothers are unique metal parts; a destroyed father can mean re-cutting and re-plating a release. The archive room needs fire-rated construction or safes, climate control, access logging, and an off-site strategy for the most critical masters. - **Client audio**: pre-release music is a high-value leak target, and labels ask about it before they send masters. Isolated storage for client files, encrypted transfer and at-rest storage, strict need-to-know access, and a written policy the sales team can show clients. - **Chemical inventory**: silver nitrate is valuable and regulated; nickel salts are hazardous. Locked storage, inventory tracking, and controlled issue to the galvanics team. ## Fire and life safety - **Fire detection and alarm** throughout; suppression matched to each zone (hot PVC and hydraulic oil in pressing, chemistry in galvanics, paper and cartons in packaging/finished goods, and the boiler room). - **Boiler room safety**: the steam generator (10 bar, 180 °C) needs its own room, safety valves, fuel shutoff interlocks, and inspection per Thai boiler regulations (Department of Industrial Works requirements, licensed boiler operator). - **Emergency equipment in galvanics**: eyewash stations and emergency shower at the plating line, spill kits, and neutralizing agents. - **Emergency lighting, marked exits, assembly point**, and first-aid coverage on every shift. ### Suppression design position: zoned, not full-building gas A full-building gas suppression system is ruled out: gas agents only work in sealed volumes that can hold concentration, which a ventilated production hall with people and loading doors cannot, and CO2 flooding is lethal in occupied spaces. The design position is zoned suppression: - **Clean agent gas** (FK-5-1-12, sold as Novec 1230, or inert gas such as IG-541) only in small, sealed, high-value rooms: the server/IT room, electrical switchrooms, PLC/control cabinets (in-cabinet micro systems), and above all the master/stamper archive, where sprinkler water would destroy lacquers and paper records and corrode the metal parts even in a minor event. - **Water** (sprinklers, or water mist where equipment matters) for the large spaces: production, warehouse, and packaging/finished goods, where paper cartons are the largest fire load in the building. The press hall's specific risk is a hydraulic oil spray fire (200 L at 180 bar); water mist handles oil fires well and is gentler on machines than deluge. - **Battery stack (BESS)**: gas does not stop lithium thermal runaway. Per NFPA 855 practice the stack needs off-gas and early-smoke detection, electrical isolation on alarm, physical separation from production (ideally its own enclosure), and deflagration venting. Detection and containment over suppression. - **Galvanics**: low fire load (aqueous baths); local clean-agent protection for rectifier cabinets is sufficient. ### Fire water supply Sprinklers, water mist, and hose reels are only as good as the water behind them. Mains pressure and flow in Mueang Chi cannot be assumed adequate for a sprinkler demand, so the site carries its own reserve and pumps. - **Stored reserve: ~200 m³**, in a dedicated fire water tank (planning figure: 9 m diameter × 4 m, roughly 204 m³ usable above the pump suction). Basis is an Ordinary Hazard Group 2 sprinkler demand of about 1,100 L/min over the design area, plus a 950 L/min hose-stream allowance, held for 90 minutes. **This is a planning estimate, not a fire-engineering calculation** — the real number comes out of the hydraulic design. - **Dedicated, not shared**: the reserve is not drawn on by process or sanitary water, and the tank refills automatically. - **Fire pump set**: duty pump, standby pump, and a jockey pump holding ring-main pressure, in a pump house beside the tank. The duty pump needs a power path that survives a plant trip (diesel drive, or a supply ahead of the main breaker) — the BESS is not a substitute. - **Ring main and hydrants** around the building, laid out so an appliance can reach any elevation, with the yard kept clear for access. - **Siting**: the tank stands in the front yard between the road and the building, reachable directly from the frontage without entering the production yard. At 4 m tall it sits well below the building's 7 m low eave, so it never shades the roof PV. **Warehouse racking height drives the real number.** If finished-goods storage goes above roughly 3.7 m, the commodity classification and sprinkler design change, and the stored volume grows with them. Fix the racking height before the fire design is frozen, not after. The [Payap scenario model](site-candidates.md#payap-scenario-model-october-2026) draws the 9 m × 4 m tank with its pump house at the front. It also draws 6 m warehouse racking and about twice the floor area this figure was based on, a paper store among it, so treat ~200 m³ as a floor there, not as the answer. The property insurer will drive much of the final specification, so involve them before the design is fixed. The archive gas system and the BESS detection affect room layout and belong in the site design brief early. ## Plant systems and monitoring - **Utility monitoring and interlocks**: fume-extraction interlocks on the galvanics line (no extraction, no plating), steam and compressed-air pressure monitoring, leak detection, and safe-shutdown sequences. - **UPS and controlled shutdown** for the IT room, access control, alarms, and the press PLCs (a power cut mid-cycle should never leave a press in an unsafe state; the battery stack can carry critical loads). - **Lightning protection and grounding**: northern Thailand has intense storm seasons; the PV array, steel structures, and electronics all need a proper LPS and earthing design. - **Environmental monitoring**: the whole-factory HVAC monitoring above (temperature, humidity, PM in every zone), with the archive and clean room as the most tightly alarmed spaces. ## Compliance anchors (Thailand) - Factory license (Ror.Ngor. 4) and Department of Industrial Works requirements for the machinery classes and chemical quantities involved - Boiler registration and licensed operator requirements - Hazardous substance registration for the plating chemistry - PDPA compliance for CCTV and personnel data - Local fire codes and building permits during construction All of this belongs in the site design brief, so contractors quote it from day one rather than retrofitting it.