IMHO, uprights are most definitely required. As someone else said, you might not need to put sprinklers actually in the panels, presuming you can meet provisions for alleviating obstruction, but you definitely need a full complement at the deck. Because of the economy and massive bond measures up and down the state of CA, we do a LOT of schools work and the trend in schools and community colleges is to employ all manner of cloud ceiling elements, acoustic panels suspended below decks, and on one current project we also have art panels. Consensus solution for some time has been to sprinkler the space above such obstructions in its entirety ...
Steve L. -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bobby Gillett Sent: Tuesday, October 11, 2011 6:40 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Architectural Panels We have an area with Architectural Panels (aluminum) hanging from the ceiling at 12'-0 above finish floor; the building is concrete deck on I-beam construction w/the top of steel at 17'-4. The panels vary in length and width - most of them are 3'-0 wide and less with length ranging from 8'-0 and less. There are two rows of them hung together with soffit going around the perimeter of the area; there is a 1'-0 space between them in all directions including between them and the soffit. The bottom of the soffit is even with the panels (12'-0 AFF) the architectural plan is saying it is 40% open. The engineer wants the pipe hung above the panels and has chrome pendent's coming down in the 1'-0 spaces between the panels with the deflector just below the panel (approx. 11'-11) and is saying uprights are not required. Wouldn't uprights still be required above the panels? Wouldn't the pendent's need to be in the architectural panels, not in the 1'-0 open space between them? Thank you, Bobby Gillett Sr. Project Manager Key Fire Protection, Inc. (731) 424-0130 office (731) 424-9285 fax (731) 267-4853 cell <http://www.keyfireprotection.com> www.keyfireprotection.com -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attach ments/20111011/7051805e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
