Width, per nfpa 13, is the shorter of the two dimensions.
On Thu, Aug 20, 2015 at 10:55 PM, å... .... <[email protected]> wrote: > Your self-storage building feature a hallway-cloud design with financially > inconvenient prescriptive sprinkler implications. > > What about the "width" as measured n the direction parallel with the > hallway? The obstruction length in that direction exceeds 4 feet. Though > stored goods in quantity should not be in the hallway for substantial > amounts of time, and if a fire were to occur in > hallway-located-combustibles, the fire likely would not advance into the > storage rooms (liquid fuels being the exception, but even then there are > sprinklers in the storage rooms). If I were writing the specification for > bid on this project, I would have declared that sprinklers cover the > 60-inich wide hallway at the lower cloud level before they covered the > hallway at the obstructed ceiling level. > > > Scot Deal > Excelsior Fire/Risk Engineering > _______________________________________________ > 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
