I'd chat with the AHJ for a parallel to 13R treatment of the office as incidental to the residential nature of the building, maybe go to .1 for the couple heads, but it smells like making an mountain out of a molehill- until it burns down. And in NY state, that has happened with 13D in group home with multiple fatalities.....
I'm all for keeping the cost of FP down- until we have evidence that what we're doing has killed people when done in the past, and in this case, without knowing the particulars that may or may not parallel the NY incident, there's great potential for disaster that should and can be avoided if it indeed exists. George L. Church, Jr., CET Rowe Sprinkler Systems, Inc. PO Box 407, Middleburg, PA 17842 877-324-ROWE 570-837-6335 fax [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of IPA Sent: Wednesday, May 09, 2012 10:43 AM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 13D - outside of residence. An office inside a structure classified as 13D is a 'home office' in my book. There is no distinction in 13D as you stated. On Wed, May 9, 2012 at 7:02 AM, Todd Williams <[email protected]> wrote: > I am working on a small group home which is allowed to be designed per > NFPA 13D (2007) , per the state Code. On one end of the building has a > 25 x > 15 office. How should this office be treated? Since it is not part of > the residential portion of the building, I thought per NFPA 13, at > least in terms of density and sprinkler spacing, using commercial > heads. However, 13D does not address occupancies outside the dwelling > unit (at least that I could find). Thoughts? > > Todd G. Williams, PE > Fire Protection Design/Consulting > Stonington, CT > 860.535.2080 > www.fpdc.com > > _______________________________________________ > 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/attachments/20120509/f37b0c0b/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
