NIST ran a number of full scale fire tests in hospital patient rooms looking at different sprinkler heads, locations, activation times, etc.
The report is located here: http://fire.nist.gov/bfrlpubs/fire79/PDF/f79004.pdf Rich Pehrson Futrell Fire -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Jay Stough Sent: Monday, May 14, 2007 11:07 AM To: AFSA SprinklerFORUM Subject: RTI Times We have a customer, a VA Hospital, that is trying to justify changing from Standard response to quick response sprinklers. We have discussed the RTI and other factors that make the QR's respond faster, but he is asking if we know of any time differences that are verifiable. What he needs is some idea that QR's respond in X seconds and Standard response respond in Y seconds to show the difference. I have looked in the sprinkler handbooks ( 1999 to 2007) and the Fire Protection Handbook, but only find references to RTI, no actual times. The FM standard lists 1:15 as the time for QR, but I could not find standard response. Any help is appreciated. Joseph C. Stough CET, CFPS Tilley Fire Equipment Co. Tel. 215-345-8066 X22 Fax: 215-345-9357 [EMAIL PROTECTED] _______________________________________________ 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)
