Standard practice in most large industrial and some commercial that I've had experience with. Most of the time looking at a stand alone building located in an advantageous location with respect to the water supply (tank, reservoir, municipal) and other factors. Doesn't typically make senses to bring a set of larger undergrounds to and from a protected building to locate the pump there since you are supplying other buildings through a private fire main system. I have seen the pump(s) in one of the protected buildings in older industrial in more urban settings with very limited yard space and in more urban commercial where again there is limited yard space for a stand-alone pump house.
As others have stated, this is typically a single owner scenario. I have been involved with industrial sites where buildings/property was sold to a different owner and fire protection water supply remained with the larger industrial complex. Generally that's a problematic arrangement from what I've seen, but I've seen AHJ/water purveyors sign off on it to promote re-development of older industrial sites. Those are the arrangements where you spend more time with lawyers then with the fire protection aspects of the project. Richard Malek [EMAIL PROTECTED] -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Bobby McCullough Sent: Friday, May 04, 2007 7:47 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Single Fire Pump Serving Multiple Buildings Is there something in the IFC or IBC 2006 or NFPA 20 which would prohibit a booster fire pump from supplying multiple buildings on the same property? Would it make any difference if the fire pump was in a stand alone building or inside a two hour enclosure of one of the protected buildings? The scenario is a developer with three detached 200K sq ft spec warehouse buildings with ESFR systems, all on one property, a good public water supply but not quite good enough. All buildings are supplied from a single tap to the public water system with a DDC device in a vault. NFPA 13-07 8.2.5 refers to "systems" or "risers" and I don't see the intent for it to include a booster pump supply. Bobby McCullough _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field) _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
