Depending on the roofing materials and the location the wall may have to continue through the roof and form a parapet. Depending on the location to truly be a townhouse the property lines may have to run along those walls so that each is an SFD with zero clearance side-lot lines.
On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 7:31 AM, George Church <[email protected]>wrote: > Essentially one family from slab to roof, open on two sides (usually front > and back, doesn't have to be). > I'm sure there's more than that. > > > George L. Church, Jr., CET > Rowe Sprinkler Systems, Inc. > PO Box 407, Middleburg, PA 17842 > 877-324-ROWE 570-837-6335 fax > [email protected] > > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Roland Huggins > Sent: Friday, December 16, 2011 10:06 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: IBC - building separations > > If it meets the definition of townhouse, the IRC is the applicable code > and will have a lower required rating. > > Roland > > > On Dec 16, 2011, at 5:19 AM, Dewayne Martinez wrote: > > > Where is the spot in the IBC that defines what rating a wall must be > > to divide a larger building into two smaller, separate ones? > > > > I remember talk about row housing in San Francisco where one large > > building was subdivided into separate townhomes by use of firewalls. > > > > Thanks, > > > > > > > > Dewayne Martinez > > > > Design Build Fire Protection > > > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was > > scrubbed... > > URL: > > <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/atta > > chments/20111216/9efeba2c/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 > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Technology Bates Technical College 1101 So. Yakima Ave. Tacoma, WA 98405 [email protected] http://www.bates.ctc.edu/fireprotection/ 253.680.7346 253.576.9700 (cell) Member: ASEE, SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA, AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20111216/21cd8b78/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
