Interesting story - I have recently had 'discussions' with a
consultant who has undertaken a 'fire engineering study' for an
education dept in England which concluded that sprinklers were not
needed in a new school (despite a presumption issued by the Government
Department responsible for schools which states that all new schools
should be sprinklered). I am minded to suggest that those who choose
to ignore common sense and established principle should be held
financially accountable for their actions and have already suggested
to one of the major school insurers that they should, as a matter of
policy, look for recovery of insurance payouts from consultants and
others who play a role in deleting sprinklers from such projects.
Could be an interesting case !
Happy New Year to all my friends at AFSA
Stewart
On 31 Dec 2008, at 13:28, Tom Duross wrote:
Well said George.
Interesting epitaph at the end of the talking head's video,
The cost of damage as a result of the fire is in excess of
what the installation of sprinklers would have cost.
Now that's a platform.
Tom
Well, at least it was paper that burned, and not the people
mentioned in the
article about "the only things in there that can burn are people and
paper".....
It would be prudent for all of us to contact our congressmen in DC
with a
note pushing for installation of fire sprinklers in our schools as a
part of
the infrastructure investment that the president-elect plans. I
believe
high-speed internet, HVAC and electrical upgrades to improve
efficiency, and
similar items are what he intends to spend money on. It would make
sense to
try to get some of that funding dropped into Life Safety upgrades as
well.
Mention the Green side of sprinklers, you can avoid the chance for the
building to go up in polluting smoke.
Anyone subscribing to this Forum should have the savvy to google their
congresspeople, and send em an email pushing for including
sprinklers. If
you don't, we won't get the funding, and we'll have no one but
ourselves to
blame.
And so long as those email addresses are in front of you, you might
want to
change the topic and send another email protesting the planned
signing of
the Employee Free Choice Act, wherein the Free Choice of a secret
ballot
will be taken away from American workers in favor of a card check by
union
organizers- with no NLRB election. Congress seems concerned we big bad
employers are bullying our workers into not signing up with a union.
They
seem to miss the reality we experienced years ago, when 300 lb
gorillas
trespassed onto sites and vehicles in an attempt to sway our workers
into
being represented by their union.
When was the last time you read about non-union workers performing
acts of
violence and intimidation against signatory workers? It's the other
way
around, and their success rate of representing our construction
industry
speaks for itself- from 80% of construction in the 1960's to less
than 15%
of today's construction industry. And let's face it, they still have
15% of
the market since the government clings to the prevailing wages from
the
1930's in an artificial propping up of their wage rates.
Let's face it, Detroit and Pittsburgh are the poster children of
what the
autoworkers and steelworkers have done to promote a viable industry
here in
the USA. The last thing we need when trying to compete in a global
economy
is less efficiency in our labor.
glc
http://www.wtnh.com/dpp/news/news_wtnh_Shelton_High_fire_200812301825
Todd G. Williams, PE
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