Can be a very plausible story: Our new generation of performance-based building codes allow alternative solutions, this is at least valid UK, Australia, New Zealand.
A frequent cost-saving solution I see being the elimination of horizontal separation in electrical/service rooms in high-rise, by simply fire-segregating the room from the rest of the floor, so we are left with openings on top of each other for the height of the building. And if you have water coming done from 21st floor service opening, it can hit more than one electrical room (including first floor), short-circuit some and start separate fires and activate sprinklers and keep on flooding the building. Cheers Jack C Kilavuz Risk Engineer - Underwriter Munich Reinsurance Group in Australasia 143 Macquarie Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia T +61 2 9272 8078 | F +61 2 9272 8133 | M +61 419-898-365 E mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] CAUTION: This message is intended only for the named addressee. It is confidential and may be legally privileged. If you are not the intended recipient, any disclosure, copying, or distribution is prohibited and may be unlawful. By opening any attachment, you agree that the Munich Re Group will not be liable for any loss resulting from viruses or other defects. Any views in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender expressly and with authority states them to be the views of the Munich Re Group. The Munich Re Group will not be liable for any action taken, or omitted to be taken, in reliance upon the contents of this message -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Todd Williams - work Sent: Tuesday, January 30, 2007 1:09 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: sprinkler accident sets off Seattle electrical fire Now let me get this straight. A single sprinkler was set off on the 21st floor and flooded an electrical room and the water "cascaded" down to the 6th floor, where it shorted out a panel and set off a second sprinkler, then the combined water from two sprinklers flooded a gallery on the first floor, causing tens of thousands of dollars of damage? Wouldn't one sprinkler on the 21st floor and one on the 6th floor have to be operating a long time in order to create the damage claimed? Methinks there is a 'rest of the story'. At 08:51 AM 1/29/2007, you wrote: >Content-class: urn:content-classes:message >Content-Type: multipart/related; type="multipart/alternative"; > boundary="----_=_NextPart_001_01C743AC.9FFBF9D4" > > > >How about this headline? > > > >http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/html/localnews/2003544902_dige28m.html > > > >Scott A. Futrell > > > > >_______________________________________________ >Sprinklerforum mailing list >[email protected] >http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut 860-535-2080 www.fpdc.com _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
