To give it some perspective, I'm currently designing the water supply for a two storey storage building. The stored water will supply the building sprinklers and a dry fire hydrant for the fire department. The water is to be stored in an underground tank outside the building and pumped out using a vertical turbine fire pump. The capacity of the tank is 100,000 US gallons. The building is within city limits, but in the outskirts, so no municipal supply.
Tony ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reza Esmaeili" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Friday, June 27, 2014 11:03:45 AM Subject: Re: Water Tank is so Big! Dear all, Thanks for all the comments, here I answer some of the questions: - There is no necessity to follow any cods in Iraq, there is no national code for fire. - The AHJ is Fire Department, they don't have any knowledge about fire sprinklers and they let us design as we wish. - There is no central monitoring. - I suppose that in case of fire, it takes about 15 minutes for fire departments to come. In the US public water supply is adequate for fire protection in most of the big cities and you never have to consider such a big water tank for every office building. While our public water supply is not enough and only available 5 hours a day and doesn't have the pressure even to go to the first floor! Regards, Reza Etalon Security, Erbil - Iraq _______________________________________________ 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
