Not shocked but I believe it is being oversimplified. Even the pipe schedule varied depending on the expected relative fire. Let’s take it off for for any additional exchanges.
Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering American Fire Sprinkler Assn. --- Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives Dallas, TX http://www.firesprinkler.org <http://www.firesprinkler.org/> > On Mar 6, 2015, at 1:00 PM, Brad Casterline <[email protected]> wrote: > > Most sprinkler people are shocked when I tell them that Roland, but it is > true. "had nothing to do with fire", not 'have'. > Early '70s Kansas City, Ks contractor with big 3M projects, lots of 8" pipe. > "What if we make the 2nd piece 1.25" instead of 1"?, could we make the main > 6"? The first calculations were done to compare what a scheduled system > would produce with a low, medium, and high Water Supply, and VOILA!... calcs > are born. Another quote from the same man is "pipe scheduled systems had > worked fine for 90 years at the time", so why bring fire into it? :) > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sprinklerforum [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Roland Huggins > Sent: Friday, March 06, 2015 2:38 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: Beauty Salon/Day Spa > > I'm at a loss in how one could say the curves have nothing to do with the > fire while the definitions are all about fire related variables. Granted > they are not quantified but are relative descriptions of a fire. > > > Roland Huggins, PE - VP Engineering > American Fire Sprinkler Assn. --- Fire Sprinklers Saves Lives > Dallas, TX > http://www.firesprinkler.org <http://www.firesprinkler.org/> > > > > > >> On Mar 6, 2015, at 12:31 PM, Brad Casterline <[email protected]> > wrote: >> >> Actually, if one thinks about it, IBC has as much to do with density as > NFPA >> 13 does in a way, because the density/area curves "had nothing to do with >> fire" according to the first person to use the curves (he invented them). >> NFPA #13 Occupancy Classifications are based on Low, Moderate and High, >> Quan/Comb and HRR, and "example occupancies" are given instead of numbers. >> >> Brad > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
