Greg, IBC references each of the documents you mention as the applicable installation standard for defined occupancies. For instance there are different classes of R Occupancies where one of the NFPA standards is the appropriate model. I don't have an IBC at home so I'm going to use numbers that I know aren't in it. Let's say a high rise condo is an R 50. NFPA 13 will be refenced. A R60 is a hotel type. If over four stories 13 will be referenced and if four or less 13R. We'll make a R80 an SFD type V and 13D will be appropriate. Then the IBC has some additions to NFPA such as the requirement for heads over balconies and ground floor patios in an otherwise 13R application. Your state can then amend IBC (if it isn't a mini/maxi state) to the extent of requiring all buildings to be 13 and then even amending 13 to a higher level (like increasing densities across the entire chart). You then may have local amendments to deal with so "throughout" can be a moving target. So watch out for any single document's definition. Work your way through all the levels of jurisdiction. Although where Jack quotes, "A building is considered sprinklered throughout when protected in accordance with the requirements of this standard," he is correct, that standard, or the code that drives it, may have been modified at a state or local level
On 8/29/07, Greg McGahan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Does any one have a definitive definition of the term "protected > throughout by an approved, supervised automatic sprinkler system" means > in relation to 13 vs 13R vs 13D? I believe there is something in the IBC > commentary about this. > > > > Is a building NOT protected "throughout" if the heads in allowable > bathrooms and/or closets are omitted? > > > > Thanks for the help, > > Greg > > > > Living Water Fire Protection, LLC > > 1160 McKenzie Road > > Cantonment, FL 32533 > > 850-937-1850 > > Fax: 850-937-1852 > > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > > To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) > -- Ron Greenman at home.... _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
