This is usually a situation where I let the owner (who sounds in this case like a major tax payer or at least employer, based on the scope of the project) wave their much larger stick at the offenders bosses and/or people who can make their life as unpleasant as they're trying to make yours. As for section 104, all of it's allowances to the code officials powers to my reading are to either reduce code requirements based on logical input from recognized sources or to remove an undue hardship, or to allow equivalencies. Nowhere does it indicate to me the fire official is empowered to ask for more than the code asks for. Your response always depends somewhat on if/how often you'll deal with them again, but we always stuck to our guns when we knew we were right, and 9/10 people either learn their limitations and know you're not scared of them, or they respect you for always being able to justify. But there's always some people who live in their own world and you can only hope they have a boss that will put them in their place.
Mike Morey, CFPS, SET Planner Scheduler/Designer BMWC Constructors, Inc. 1740 W. Michigan St, Indianapolis, IN 46222 O: 317.651.0596 | C: 317.586.8111 [email protected] | www.bmwc.com ________________________________________ From: Sprinklerforum <[email protected]> on behalf of [email protected] <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, July 18, 2014 1:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Segue to AHJ's from CPVC Underground It's Friday so I figured I'd whine on the forum. To set the stage, prior to the letter I am referring to we had approved permitted drawings from the AHJ. The following is a quote from a letter we received from that same AHJ. "At this time , Blah Blah Blah Fire Protection District is denying said plans and is requesting a re-submittal of new plans that exceed IFC, UFC, and NFPA standards." Nowhere in the body of the letter does he say exactly how we are to "EXCEED" IFC, UFC and NFPA. In the letter they basically outline that what was submitted meets the all of the codes. I was told by the author of the letter at a meeting the day before that he didn't care what the code said because he is the AHJ and per Section 104 of the IFC he can make us do whatever he wants. Then he said "do it my way or there will be no Certificate of Occupancy." We are 4-5 weeks away from a CofO and the change involves increasing the size of two new diesel pumps that are being installed. The fire chief told us to go to the State Fire Marshal if we wanted to appeal. I'm a bit frustrated with AHJ's right now. Ron F _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
