The IFC requires as part of changing the use or occupancy that the sprinkler system be evaluated for adequacy. The rub is whether the owner permits the change and whether the municipality enforcers/inspects their area.
Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering American Fire Sprinkler Assn. --- Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives Dallas, TX http://www.firesprinkler.org On Feb 4, 2014, at 10:12 AM, Brad Casterline <[email protected]> wrote: > Talk about 'shadow areas' :) one of the things in 13 that used to jump out at > me was Sprinklered Throughout because for control mode if a fire got too much > of a head start it might overwhelm the Control aspect. I have had the > privilege of helping PEs prepare Code Modification Requests. In no case have > these CMRs been able to show that no sprinklers is equivalent to sprinklers, > if fact they have been the other way around as in beef up the sprinklers and > some other life safety aspect might be relaxed. 13 is supposed to provide a > reasonable minimum though and it has been pointed out that we are all in this > to make money. Sprinklering everything throughout is easier to understand > than the contingency that if a pool area changed occupancy we would have to > sprinkler it-- what if it was converted to an ice- skating rink? _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
