Here in Seattle we apply the requirements from the Fire Code edition that was applicable when the building was originally constructed or substantially renovated. Early fire codes had no electrical monitoring requirement thus there are many old sprinklered buildings with no electrical monitoring to this day. The Uniform Code for many years triggered electrical monitoring when the system had 100 heads or more and the IFC triggers monitoring at 20 heads.
We are not going back to the UBC buildings that had less than 100 heads and retroactively requiring monitoring. Rich Richardson Seattle Fire Department >>> "danarbel" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 06/09/08 11:09 PM >>> Dear all Confusion about electrical supervision of sprinkler control valves: According to NFPA 13, it is sufficient to chain lock the sprinkler control valves. I.E. no requirement to monitor the position of the valves. Other NFPA codes such as 101 and 5000, require such supervision in storage areas. IFC 2006 903.4 requires valves to be electrically supervised. I would appreciate your opinions Dan Arbel No virus found in this outgoing message. Checked by AVG. Version: 7.5.524 / Virus Database: 270.0.0/1490 - Release Date: 08-Jun-08 5:32 PM _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
