I know Mark Richter from the Penn BOC, plus he's 3rd party AHJ on a good bit of our work. My understanding was that the PennBOC group was going to turn down any outside funding to avoid conflict of interest; there was sufficient doubt that the rules covering conflict of interest forbade it, they erred on the side of caution- or at least in the email discussion prior to the trip.
>From our perspective as knowledgeable sprinkler guys, its tough to watch people continue to die in SFDs when we have the ability to stop it. However, its tough for others to believe us when we say its because we believe in protecting life and property from fire with sprinklers that we support residential sprinklers- why would they believe us? Does this mean the home builders believe in people dying in their homes? Don't burnt down homes also create additional work for the builders, so a like doubt should fall on them as well. To add credibility, its imperative that if you're going to speak for residential AS in SFDs, you live in a sprinklered house. Imagine giving the most impassioned and persuasive speech, swaying those you need, and then having the opposing home builder ask if you sprinklered your own house? You'd lose all credibility if you had to say "No. Heck, costs too much and might flood the place." glc -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Terri Leyton Sent: Monday, November 10, 2008 11:51 AM To: [email protected] Subject: RB-64, Home Builders Assn. Letter I've been trying to send a post with attachments and it would appear to be too big for our servers. So, let's try this. Below is a letter from the Home Builders Assn. in Harrisburg. Note the big difference. They offer travel assistance if you share the view that "fire sprinklers should not be mandatory". To my knowledge, the IRC Residential Sprinkler Coalition was very careful not to qualify folks who received travel assistance. Never was anyone asked if they were voting yes or no on any proposed code change. If you want a clean copy of the documents, send me an email off forum. T Terri Simmons Leyton PROTECTION DESIGN & CONSULTING 8849-B Complex Drive San Diego, CA 92123 ------------------------------------------------------------- Ph: 858-751-2930 - ext. 101 Fax: 858-751-2933 Cell: 619-871-8450 "Once every man, woman and child realizes and accepts in daily life the responsibility for simple fire prevention measures, death, injury and destruction by fire will be substantially reduced." Percy Bugbee, NFPA, 1947 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list http://lists.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[EMAIL PROTECTED] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
