"4 stories and 19,000 sf per floor" And a couple hundred gallons of water and a pool pump as a water supply with unsupervised power.....brought to you by the ICC that writes most of the building codes we work under and rely on to make sure we and our fellow citizens are safe. Wasn't so bad when they just made us sprinkler porch roofs in 13R.
PEOPLE COULD DIE!!!! 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: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 11:46 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 13D - outside of residence. It's certain that the NFPA 13D TC does not think it should be applied by just looking at the scope. The ICC is the one that expanded it application. The amusing part is that it is not restricted to "small" group homes. There are no restrictions at all so for type II construction, it can be 4 stories and 19,000 sf per floor. Ain't that a kick in the head. It wasn't until the 2012 edition of the IBC that it's required to have a hydraulic design sign on the riser, electrical supervision, and ITM as if it were a 13R system. Roland On May 9, 2012, at 7:55 AM, Ron Greenman wrote: > If you look at the title of the document it says one and two family > dwellings. That I believe is presuming one or two nuclear families > under one roof. A group home does not really fit that definition and > should be at least a 13R. That said many jurisdictions allow 13D for > small group home type occupancies. If that's the case I would presume > they allow the office to also fall under 13D as just another occupied > space as the elusive IPA suggested. Not being on the committee I > certainly can't speak to intent but nothing about 13D suggests to me > that it was ever intended to be used for group homes despite it > happening. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20120509/1b9869bd/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
