Try this one on for originality. The great City of Phoenix is set to amend the requirements of all the NFPA standards regarding FDC's. They will now require an industrial complex supplied by a fire pump taking suction from the city main, to have an FDC on the pump discharge and in addition, an FDC on every individual sprinkler riser or manifold fed from the underground supply from that pump, because there are sectional gate valves (in roadway boxes) in the underground yard mains that are not locked or monitored! So a 300,000 sf single building will now have up to 10 separate FDC's scattered around the facility. FYI, the only hydrants available for use in pumping into these FDCs are fed from the private fire pump. ?? Is anyone else around the solar system experiencing this level of micro-management? Comments, feedback? Frustrated in paradise. Mark at Aero
----- Original Message ----- From: Roland Huggins [mailto:rhugg...@firesprinkler.org] Sent: Monday, May 13, 2013 08:45 PM To: sprinklerforum@lists.firesprinkler.org <sprinklerforum@lists.firesprinkler.org> Subject: Re: Exposed threads Just like the velocity limit of 32ft/s rule. Never was valid but often enforced with great zeal. Roland Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering American Fire Sprinkler Assn. --- Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives Dallas, TX http://www.firesprinkler.org On May 13, 2013, at 1:34 PM, John O'Connor <jocon...@nfspk.com> wrote: > It is amazing > how some rules get hatched and live forever, only to be expanded upon as if > the original came down from Mt. Sinai. > John O'Connor _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list Sprinklerforum@lists.firesprinkler.org http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list Sprinklerforum@lists.firesprinkler.org http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
