Sorry, for the wrong heading for the original post. The building is a laboratory. So there are hazardous substances. I still need to check what gets collected in the pit. The maintenance guy told me it is for storing rain water.
Assuming it is rain water (till I check it out) would this pit have to be sprinklered? If it is for containment of spills of chemicals, would it have to be sprinklered then? Tony -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bruce Verhei Sent: April 20, 2012 5:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: Water testing volumes Tony Are there hazardous materials in the building? Is this "secondary containment" per IFC/IBC? Bruce Sent from my Motorola ATRIXT 4G on AT&T -----Original message----- From: Ron Greenman <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Fri, Apr 20, 2012 21:06:59 GMT+00:00 Subject: Re: Water testing volumes Tony, You just described open grate flooring. See NFPA 13/2010 8.5.5.3.1. Note that nothing is said about what's under the grated floor being relevant. Earlier versions have, if not exact, similar language. On Fri, Apr 20, 2012 at 12:26 PM, A.P.Silva <[email protected]> wrote: > > In an industrial building there is a concrete storage tank below gound > level. It is about 19'x7' and 10 feet deep and covered with an open > grated steel panel. Top of the steel panel is level with the adjacent > ground floor level. Someone said it was to collect rain water but I > need to get that confirmed. It could even be that the other floor > drains drained into this tank and was pumped out. Anyway, this space > is non-combustible, but could collect debris that would fall through > the open grate panel. The question is, does it have to be sprinklered? > I would say NO, but is there anything in the code to justify that > position? > > Tony > > _______________________________________________ > Sprinklerforum mailing list > [email protected] > http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum > -- Ron Greenman Instructor Fire Protection Engineering Technology Bates Technical College 1101 So. Yakima Ave. Tacoma, WA 98405 [email protected] http://www.bates.ctc.edu/fireprotection/ 253.680.7346 253.576.9700 (cell) Member: ASEE, SFPE, ASCET, NFPA, AFSA, NFSA, AFAA, NIBS, WSAFM, WFC, WFSC They are happy men whose natures sort with their vocations. -Francis Bacon, essayist, philosopher, and statesman (1561-1626) -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachment s/20120420/c64c113e/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachment s/20120420/05a52655/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
