Todd, I am not aware of any either. This brings up a good question though. The AHJ's in our area are hitting NFPA 25 5-year inspections pretty hard specifically obstruction investigations, this kinda poses a problem when the pipe is above a hard lid ceiling, mostly were I see this is in older nursing homes. For present and future projects since AHJ's are looking at this I would think they would require the access panels when hard lid ceilings exist throughout a facility? Any of the AHJ's on the forum have any ideas?
Jim Johnston, P.E. Fire Protection Engineer Inland Fire Protection, Inc 1100 Ahtanum Road Yakima, WA 98903 Phone 509-248-4471 Fax 509-248-1180 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Todd Williams [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Wednesday, July 15, 2009 8:18 AM To: [email protected] Subject: access panel Where are access panels required? I am working on a project where there are a lot of combustible concealed spaces with sprinklers installed. Several of these spaces will not be accessible when the sheetrock is installed. Is there a Code reference as to where access panels are required? I couldn't find any, but that is not unusual. Todd G. Williams, PE Fire Protection Design/Consulting Stonington, Connecticut www.fpdc.com 860.535.2080 _______________________________________________ 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) _______________________________________________ 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)
