Todd, In MA we can use 2 head design in a 3 decker now and have been. http://www.mass.gov/Eeops/docs/dps/BuildingCode/780009.pdf
Tom Owen, I was at a seminar this week where they said that the MA Building Code might allow 13D systems in some 3 unit buildings in the next revision cycle. It's in the proposal and comment phase and nothing is cast in stone. There are a lot of 3 deckers out in this part of the world, but here the FDCs would be every 75 feet Todd. At 11:23 AM 3/17/2007, you wrote: >Hello, > >How many cities out there allow the 3 unit condo complex to have 13D >system in each unit. Meaning, each unit has its own 1" meter, riser, >and two head calculation? The middle unit has two hour walls from >foundation up through the attic but without the parapet. Redondo >Beach has hundreds of these kind of lots. Since 1991 this >arrangement has been allowed. If other cities have these kind of >buildings but don't allow the 13D how are they protected, 13R? If >Redondo did 13R they would have an FDC every 50' down many streets. >What is reasonable? > >Regards, >Owen Evans >(former plan checker of 7 years, back on the rescue to finish 25 >years (thank God) ) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
