There we go! In 8.2.4 - I knew it was in there somewhere and that's precisely how they must've got away with the previous buildings. They're all attached, albeit ever so slightly, by an exterior canopy bridging the buildings.
It's still wacky, but oh well... Thanks for the help! On Tue, Jan 11, 2011 at 10:24 AM, Daniel Wilder <[email protected]>wrote: > If the total building areas didn't exceed the limitations of 8.2.1 (13'10 > edition) you could apply section 8.2.4 assuming they are all connected. If > not, 8.2.5.1 would not allow you to unless the AHJ had given approval to do > so. > > Huge issues if ownership is different between the buildings or if the > alarms > are not interconnected, i.e. #4 has a fire, #1-#2-#3 all show a flow > condition. The FD would normally say no to this if the owner just doesn't > want to pay more for some additional underground. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of IPA > Sent: Tuesday, January 11, 2011 9:55 AM > To: sprinklerforum > Subject: One City Tap for Four Buildings > > Hello, > > I've got a project where there is only one tap into the city water supply > and this tap supplies fire sprinkler systems for four buildings. The only > problem is there is not one underground main which branches off to each > building underground. Instead the fire line goes into only one building > (building #1) with it's own riser, feeds the fire sprinklers system for > that > building then goes down the opposite side of the building, underground, > comes up into building #2, with it's own riser, feeds that fire sprinkler > system then goes down underground and continues on to each building. Each > building has it's own riser but if at anytime someone shuts down the riser > at building #1 the entire complex goes down. I hope I made sense. > > From my perusal of 13 and 24 I didn't see anything that forbids this but > wanted to run it through the forum. It seems a little too wacky to me. > _______________________________________________ > 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]<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]<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)
