I tried to make the same case with an engineering firm who was reviewing my plans and they insisted on OH. Seeing how noncombustible porte-cocheres aren't required to be sprinkled at all it would only make sense that if the construction does require them to be sprinkled then it would be light hazard - either way it's not considered "automobile parking" since the vehicles are transient. I think you can make a case from the code for LH.
On Fri, May 18, 2012 at 12:24 PM, Bob <[email protected]> wrote: > Forum, > Hope everybody's day is going well. With a drive thru Porte cohere is the > density light hazard or OH1? 13 says that the cars should not be > considered > storage, that being the case there is no storage beneath. Light hazard > would seem appropriate at this point. > > Thanks, > > Bob Knight, CET III > 208-318-3057 > www.firebyknight.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/20120518/6c915d6b/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
