This is one of the issue where we were pushing the rock up the hill because it made no sense to limit it to an opening on one side. SO to poke a hole in Kyle’s approach, common sense said “do what” but the standard was quite explicit in it’s requirements. As such, it requires an open minded AHJ to consider an equivalency.
Roland Huggins, PE - Senior VP Engineering American Fire Sprinkler Assn. Dallas, TX http://www.firesprinkler.org <http://www.firesprinkler.org/> Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives > On Apr 16, 2018, at 9:56 AM, Ed Kramer <e...@bamfordfire.com> wrote: > > It appears the 2019 edition of 13 will delete the “on only one side” part of > 8.15.23.3 (renumbered as 9.3.14.3). Assuming the change makes it through the > process, that gives me a much better comfort level to go to the AHJ and ask > for a variance. Thank you to all who responded. > > Ed Kramer > Bamford Fire > >
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