Depends on how your State's social services department defines assisted living, or how your building code defines it, or both. assisted living is not universally defined anymore than nursing home or group home is. The social services department typically will determine how many and what assortment of need can be defined as a particular category such as (and I'm just pulling a number out of my ....) a maximum of twenty with up to four having some sort of dementia. Exceed either criterion and the facilities licensing requirements change as does the definition of the facility. The definition determines level of staffing, security, etc. in addition to fire protection.
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Jay White <[email protected]> wrote: > Good morning everyone, I have an assisted living facility with less than 16 > persons. It was a large residential home turned into assisted living. It is > a group R-4 occupancy per IBC. Is the design based on NFPA 13? Could design > be based on NFPA 13D? > > Jay White > Estimator/Design Manager > Dynamic Fire Protection > 1807 Hwy. 25 South > Starkville, MS 39759 > Phone: 662-324-1550 > Fax: 662-324-1545 > Cell: 662-312-2426 > > > _______________________________________________ > 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) > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Bates Technical College 1101 So. Yakima Ave. Tacoma, WA 253.680.7346 Member: AFSA, SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, NFSA, AFAA, ASEE, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) _______________________________________________ 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)
