My final thoughts on this. (I Promise!) When you see spec.'s in Div 15 for fire sprinkler it's a good indication that they don't know fire sprinklers, or haven't updated their spec since 1986 when Fire Sprinklers moved to Div. 13. (That's right you've been seeing the same "Canned" spec that is at least 23 years old. Possibly older than some on this forum.) When you see a spec. in DIV. 13, but you local code is NFPA 13 2007, know that Fire Sprinklers were no longer in Div. 13 when 2007 was adopted, and may not include all its changes and provisions. (In 2004 Fire Suppression was moved to its own DIV. 21)(Alarms are in DIV 28)
By the way for those few of you that don't know where the Div. in your bid doc's come from, it's the "Construction Specification institute http://www.csinet.org/s_csi/index.asp Thom McMahon, SET Firetech, Inc. 2560 Copper Ridge Dr P.O. Box 882136 Steamboat Springs, CO 80488 Tel: 970-879-7952 Fax: 970-879-7926 -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Mark Sornsin Sent: Tuesday, January 06, 2009 4:12 PM To: '[email protected]' Subject: The Engineering Problem (RE: another fire - this will be interesting) Amen, Thom! As a member of the engineering community I completely agree. _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
