No - unless the AHJ just decides he wants it (rare)...that is my EXPERIENCE, not a technical interpretation by a member of a committee, etc. Greg
On Tue, Nov 29, 2011 at 9:33 AM, Steve Leyton <[email protected]>wrote: > Okay, this is ironic. California Seismic Guy has a question about > non-seismic applications. > > I'm sitting in a meeting in Big Spring Texas where a VA Hospital retrofit > is to be undertaken and where the building is not required to be > seismically protected. Do the clearance provisions of 9.3.4 apply if the > buildings not rated for seismic? The section makes requirements in > general terms, which could be interpreted as unilateral prescriptives, but > is in a chapter about protection of piping against earthquakes (obviously). > > The end game on this one is that we don't want to cut large holes in fire > rated walls and can't install flex couplings within a foot of each side. > > Thanks, > Steve L. > > > > -------------- next part -------------- > A non-text attachment was scrubbed... > Name: winmail.dat > Type: application/ms-tnef > Size: 3846 bytes > Desc: not available > URL: < > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20111129/110ef83b/attachment.bin > > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > -- Greg McGahan Living Water Fire Protection, LLC <http://www.livingwaterfp.com> 1160 McKenzie Road Cantonment, FL 32533 850-937-1850 fax 850-937-1852 -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20111129/b324ad3b/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
