Not crazy, just someone who knows what he's looking at.  Kudos!

As others have stated, there's a whole number of reasons this could happen.
You can either reject the submittals outright (and make the designer figure
out where he/she went wrong), or spend the time to figure it out yourself.
Either way, it's nice to see a plan reviewer pick-up on something like that.


Ed Kramer
Littleton, CO


 
> Reviewing a hydraulic calc for a 0.58 over 2000 gridded warehouse
> system.
> All seemed OK until I reached the BOR flow of 1143 gpm.  From this I
> assume
> the selected design area isn't correct since there's no way a 0.58 over
> 2000
> system should flow less than 1160 gpm.  I've never heard of hydraulic
> imbalance that results in lower overall flow.  Am I crazy or is there a
> new
> version of sprinkler hydraulics out there?
> 
> Bill Brooks
> 
> William N. Brooks, P.E.
> Brooks Fire Protection Engineering Inc.
>

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