They compete? And I don't see them coming together. NFPA and FM have different interests and priorities. Not vastly different. Can you see QR reduction going away or FM adding it? I don't see it anytime soon as one example.
I hope 30 does not come in. Book is already too big IMHO. I think there should be one book that covers LH, OH, EH, calcs and plans and basics like size and spacing. Another book with NOTHING repeated that covers the specialties like tires, HPS, rolled paper.....Then I might see 30 coming in to that book. Then a third book for ships, lol. Might even take out acceptance and testing and move to NFPA 3 or NFPA 25 or something like that. I was around in the 231C days, not suggesting going back to that but something between the two would be nice. I should say I'm not on a committee, so just my thoughts. Chris Cahill, PE* Associate Fire Protection Engineer Burns & McDonnell 8201 Norman Center Drive Bloomington, MN 55437 Phone: 952.656.3652 Fax: 952.229.2923 [email protected] www.burnsmcd.com Proud to be one of FORTUNE's 100 Best Companies to Work For *Registered in: MN -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bill Brooks Sent: Thursday, January 30, 2014 11:25 AM To: [email protected] Subject: NFPA 13 Future Development Perhaps a question for Roland or other committee members. What is the big picture with regard to the coordination of FM 2-0, 8-9, etc. with NFPA 13? Are we going to see two competing sprinkler standards in a few years? Will the sprinkler requirements in NFPA 30 be merged with NFPA 13 at some point? Bill Brooks _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
