Kinda like Craig said I think just about everything plus clean agent (all 76 - lol) is common. All depends on how much the owner wants to spend and whether there is live offsite backup.
Chris Cahill, PE* Senior Fire Protection Engineer, Aviation & Facilities Group Burns & McDonnell 8201 Norman Center Drive Bloomington, MN 55437 Phone: 952.656.3652 Fax: 952.229.2923 ccah...@burnsmcd.com www.burnsmcd.com Proud to be one of FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For *Registered in: MN -----Original Message----- From: sprinklerforum-boun...@firesprinkler.org [mailto:sprinklerforum-boun...@firesprinkler.org] On Behalf Of craig.pr...@ch2m.com Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 3:48 PM To: sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org Subject: RE: IT Datacenter applications Of the ones we've designed they have been Wet with spot smoke detection, wet with VESDA, Preaction in all three flavors, No protection at all other than portable extinguishers, etc. The underwriter, owner and client user of the data centers all played a key role in determining the extend or type of protection once it was determined whether code required it or not. So pick one. No water mist. Craig L. Prahl, CET Fire Protection CH2MHILL Lockwood Greene 1500 International Drive Spartanburg, SC 29304-0491 Direct - 864.599.4102 Fax - 864.599.8439 CH2MHILL Extension 74102 craig.pr...@ch2m.com -----Original Message----- From: sprinklerforum-boun...@firesprinkler.org [mailto:sprinklerforum-boun...@firesprinkler.org] On Behalf Of J.P. Merlino Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2012 4:09 PM To: sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org Subject: IT Datacenter applications Forum members: I would like to know if anyone has dealt with extinguishing installations for big IT datacenter rooms, and what was the application used (wet/dry sprinker, water mist, etc.) We are talking of datacenter room similar to the one portrayed in http://www.switchnap.com/pages/all-things-switch/switch-mod.php. The area of the datacenter is around 6500 sq ft and room height is 25 ft. Best regards J.P. Merlino -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/private/sprinklerforum/attachments/20121205/dee89070/attachment.html> _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list Sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list Sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list Sprinklerforum@firesprinkler.org http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum
