If NFPA is silent on the subject and FM has a Standard which address the hazard you are going to disregard the FM info and do what?
In the Industrial realm I deal with there are a lot of times where NFPA has no specific guidelines for some of the special hazards where FM does. I have applied the FM data and submitted it to the AHJ's and other insurance people without one rejecting it. This is because the data is recognized by the industry as being validated. If you just come off the wing with some design criteria what will you base it on, research, calculations, actual field testing? If you use the FM data just qualify it on your design documents. Plus NFPA Standards in most every case I've read allow for alternative designs. More often than not an AHJ will accept an industry standard over "sumthin that sumbody just thunk up". Craig L. Prahl, CET Fire Protection Specialist Mechanical Department CH2MHILL Lockwood Greene 1500 International Drive PO Box 491, Spartanburg, SC 29304-0491 Direct - 864.599.4102 Fax - 864.599.8439 [email protected] http://www.ch2m.com -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Jim Johnston Sent: Monday, November 23, 2009 1:41 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Design Criteria Forum Members: Got a question regarding design criteria: Can a project be designed utilizing FM Global standards although FM is not involved? Got a project where the design is outside the scope of NFPA 13 however FM Global has a criteria for the hazard. My answer would be no you can't use the FM Global criteria since they (FM) aren't involved, any thoughts on this? Jim Johnston, P.E. Fire Protection Engineer Inland Fire Protection, Inc 1100 Ahtanum Road Yakima, WA 98903 Phone 509-248-4471 Fax 509-248-1180 [email protected] _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.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) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.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)
