What is your basis for ignoring the area of coverage criteria and the known impact produced by closely spaced members? Besides the Annex states part of the guidance from 13 is indeed the number of sprinklers which is driven by the allowed area of coverage which is driven by the type of construction.
Roland On Apr 9, 2010, at 4:22 AM, Dewayne Martinez wrote: > I have a 4-family 13R (07ed) building with unfinished basements. > Please > confirm if my logic is on tract for sprinklering these areas. > For most AHJ's here, basements are not considered part of the dwelling > unit so they fall under section 6.8.2 - outside dwelling unit. > Only the design discharge and design area criteria from 13 apply so I > can sprinkler this area as LH with 225sf spacing > no matter the type of construction. IE: I don't have to reduce the > head > spacing to 130sf because of the TJI's 16" O.C. > Sound ok? > Thanks, > Dewayne Martinez > Design Build Fire Protection > New Berlin, WI > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.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 [email protected] http://fireball.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)
