Dear colleagues, Here is a peculiar question: A pharmaceutical company is planning to build a new plant with laboratories for production and quality control, offices and an underground parking level. The top floor is for HVAC. The main process is waterbased, although, like any other laboratory, there small quantities of flammable liquids present. The flammable liquids will be stored in fire cabinets. We already convinced the company's management that sprinkler is the way to go for the obvious reasons: life safety, preservation of property, continuity of operations, etc. Maybe we advised them too good: Now the management wonders why not all pharmaceutical plants are sprinklered throughout.
I'm composing a list of unsprinklered pharmaceutical facilities with the reason why the decision makers in concern have chosen not to sprinkler. Can you help me with examples of such sites, (parts of) plants or rooms and the reasoning? By the way, this question from our client is not as peculiar as it looks like at first sight. It is just a known method of decision making. It might lead to the decision to protect some rooms or parts of the building otherwise (with gas, pre-action sprinkler e.g.). Frans Stoop TOS architecture & fire protection Netherlands <[email protected]> Tel. +31-24-324 0112 _______________________________________________ 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)
