Anyone who is an NFPA member please go to the NFPA Xchange thread about this and let them know how you feel.
Its pretty pathetic how this worked out, and some of their claims in there are... laughable at best. https://community.nfpa.org/thread/1536 Benjamin Young On Fri, Nov 13, 2015 at 4:34 PM, David Blackwell <[email protected] > wrote: > I mentioned the lack of bars and dots on the forum back in February after > discovering it in the new NFPA 54... and was not pleased to hear that it > was going to affect the other new standards. > I got the impression from my conversations with NFPA staff that it was a > cost cutting move and that they want you to use a different document > version to see the changes. > I have not found any users of these codes that prefer this new format for > the new editions of NFPA standards. > At the time this came up, I did not find that they had changed the rules > in the NFPA Manual of Style but they may have issued a new edition by now. > > Respectfully, > > > David W. S. Blackwell, II, PE, CFPE, CFI I > Chief Engineer > Office of State Fire Marshal > SC Department of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation, 141 Monticello Trail, > Columbia, SC 29203 > Telephone: 803.896.9800 [Office] 803.896.9833 [Direct] > Fax: 803.896.9806 [Office] > Email: [email protected] > Website: http://www.scfiremarshal.llronline.com/ > > > Please note that you can find a lot of information on our website at > http://www.scfiremarshal.llronline.com/ including contact information, > current events, laws, regulations, policies, forms, procedures, and links > to other website resources for further information. > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sprinklerforum [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of David > Blackwell > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 5:26 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: RE: NFPA Track Changes > > I talked to Chris Dubay... he knows my opinion... > > Respectfully, > > > David W. S. Blackwell, II, PE, CFPE, CFI I Chief Engineer Office of State > Fire Marshal SC Department of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation, 141 > Monticello Trail, Columbia, SC 29203 > Telephone: 803.896.9800 [Office] 803.896.9833 [Direct] > Fax: 803.896.9806 [Office] > Email: [email protected] > Website: http://www.scfiremarshal.llronline.com/ > > > Please note that you can sign up to receive automatic information on SC > Division of Fire and Life Safety current events, policies, laws and > procedures by visiting our Web site at: > http://www.scfiremarshal.llronline.com/ > > > -----Original Message----- > From: Sprinklerforum [mailto: > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Fairchild, > Jack > Sent: Friday, February 20, 2015 4:25 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: NFPA Track Changes > > I completely object to this practice and am contacting my committees staff > liaisons. Who else at NFPA do we need to contact? > > Jack Fairchild > > > Just to clarify - the 2013 editions of NFPA 13 do have markings, it's just > that this particular section was missed. > > Roland is correct - I previously found that the newest NFPA 54 edition was > published by NFPA without the markings of changes traditionally found in > their standards as called for by the NFPA Manual of Style, so I called and > got confirmation from NFPA staff that it was intentional and expected for > future editions of NFPA standards. I indicated my preference for > continuing to use notations of some sort that that would help all users > understand when changes have been made. > > Respectfully, > > > David W. S. Blackwell, II, PE, CFPE, CFI I Chief Engineer Office of State > Fire Marshal SC Department of Labor, Licensing, & Regulation, 141 > Monticello Trail, Columbia, SC 29203 > Telephone: 803.896.9800 [Office] 803.896.9833 [Direct] > Fax: 803.896.9806 [Office] > Email: [email protected] > Website: http://www.scfiremarshal.llronline.com/ > _______________________________________________ > 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 > _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
