Now this is a good example of something outside a maintenance inspection ;-)
John ...........running for cover -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tom Duross Sent: Friday, January 12, 2007 1:34 PM To: [email protected] Subject: RE: Fire Mains I saw one recently here in Boston where they offset up after the footing and ran close to the slab. This one froze, 10" 100 PSI main and the slab heaved 10' in the air. Wish I had my camera then. Tom Not me At 12:24 PM 1/12/2007, you wrote: >Who DESIGNED it? >Mark at Aero > > >And this comes back to the question being discussed in another >thread, Who approved something like that? > > >I was present when a 10" main running below a building where >manufacturing was more than $1Million per day broke. The break, >under the loading dock, turned out to be 18 feet deep and backhoes >that could reach that deep could not get into the loading dock >because the doors weren't big enough. You don't have to know much >more to know this was a very expensive problem because the >manufacturing operation could not run without fire protection! > >Scott > >Here is a good example why we don't run fire supply mains under building >slabs. NFPA has prohibited this for years but I still Architects and >Engineers design underground fire supply mains under the slab to interior >mechanical rooms. Fire sprinkler risers should always be installed at >exterior walls to prevent what just happened at Sky View High School. Please >pass this along to anyone in your firm who specifics location of fire supply >mains. > _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
