Because Ron, a gold badge or a basic engineering degree legally declares someone smarter. Nuff said.
Craig L. Prahl, CET Fire Protection CH2MHILL Lockwood Greene 1500 International Drive Spartanburg, SC 29304-0491 Direct - 864.599.4102 Fax - 864.599.8439 CH2MHILL Extension 74102 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Ron Greenman Sent: Thursday, March 15, 2012 12:42 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Latest act of stupidity Funny. Did you point out that this was a life-safety system designed to provide life-safety only protection in a structure built to and designed as a typical stick-frame building with typical residential room contents and furnishings, not standard strip mall construction with business layout and furniture configurations? Why do these guys become smarter than the experienced committee members as soon as the Wizard gives them a gold badge or a basic engineering degree? On Thu, Mar 15, 2012 at 7:43 AM, Todd Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > I got a call from a client who works in a state with no formal state code. > The local Fire Marshals pretty much make up what they want. A 24 hour > walk-in clinic is moving in to an unsprinklered shopping center. The FM > said that it needs to be sprinklered because it is open 24 hours but he is > only asking for a 13R system fed from the existing 2" service. He put it in > writing and I am in process of obtaining copies. 0.16 is looking pretty > good right now. > > Todd G. Williams, PE > Fire Protection Design/Consulting > Stonington, CT > 860.535.2080 > www.fpdc.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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/20120315/01edb8be/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
