Thank you Roland. I hate going to the client and telling them they wasted good 
money on poor engineering. Lol. thank you’ll.

Steven MacKinnon
Fire Protection Division
Hartcorn Plumbing and Heating, Inc.
850 South Second Street
Ronkonkoma, NY 11779
Office 631-580-2300  Fax – 631-580-1090


From: Sprinklerforum [mailto:[email protected]] On 
Behalf Of Roland Huggins
Sent: Thursday, June 09, 2016 12:51 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: Re: gridded pipe in a DIPA system

look at section 7.3.2.6 (2013 ed but also older since not new criteria):  
occupancy hazard approach can be gridded for Single Interlock and Non - 
Interlock but not for Double - Interlock.  For Storage no gridded systems for 
any type of preaction.

Roland


Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering
American Fire Sprinkler Assn.       ---      Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives
Dallas, TX
http://www.firesprinkler.org<http://www.firesprinkler.org/>



On Jun 8, 2016, at 10:43 AM, Steve Mackinnon 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:

Just came across a set of fire sprinkler plans for a freezer… The engineer 
wants to install a DIPA with gridded pipe, would this arrangement be allowed by 
NFPA 13, 2007 standards?? I know the good book says a DIPA system is considered 
a dry system for the 30% design area increase, but what about “gridding of 
pipe”? A DIPA system would only have supervisor air… wouldn’t this help the 
water reach the open sprinkler heads similar to a wet system?

Thank you
Steven


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