A server and a UPS is not an electrical room nor considered "electrical equipment".
"Electrical Rooms" house Transformers, MCCs and Switchgear. The clue is the mention of dry type equipment. You haven't seen any oil cooled computers have you? So technically this doesn't apply but it depends on what you convince the AHJ it means. If they are adamant about not putting sprinklers in the room, the better argument is found in the Fire Code in 903.3.1.1.1 EXEMPT LOCATIONS where you could use exemption (2)"Any room or space where sprinklers are considered undesirable because of the nature of the contents, when approved by the fire code official." Now the room will require the installation of smoke detectors if you omit the sprinklers. Run that by the AHJ and see if it flies. Craig L. Prahl Fire Protection Group Lead/SME CH2MHILL Lockwood Greene 1500 International Drive Spartanburg, SC 29303 Direct - 864.599.4102 Fax - 864.599.8439 CH2MHILL Extension 74102 [email protected] -----Original Message----- From: Sprinklerforum [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of James Crawford Sent: Thursday, November 19, 2015 2:29 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Electrical Equipment room Opinions please NFPA #13 2013 ed section 8.15.11 Electrical Equipment. Room is used as a server room, only the server and the UPS are in the room, the room is 2 hour fire rated. Section 8.15.11.3 Sprinklers shall not be required in electrical equipment room where all of the following conditions are met: (1) Room is dedicated to electrical equipment only yes (2) Only dry-type electrical equipment is used. Yes (3) Electrical equipment is installed in a 2 hour rated enclosure including protection of penetrations yes (4) No combustibles storage is permitted to be stored in the room. yes Based on this can the sprinkler heads be eliminated from this room? Would still have to get it by the AHJ. Thank you James Crawford Phaser Fire Protection Ltd. Phone 604-888-0318 Fax 604-888-4732 Cel 604-790-0938 Email [email protected] _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://secure-web.cisco.com/1zyL-IIfogELwG3Q_nmzTBWVZQNuViT_fQuYwoI05a4DL1fxlpc6ybMm97Qa8tfZSTlzKjSn3Pv38GkPMqgRZRPP8ygUtpi87WN7SJZ25emJTG_VcxyvmhGB5mRoxWdN7rcakv6oPlfa4XkcKIVggNJtZjyGBQBzR9kEqTHWgwywHJIvaY0Zy2DBk07Q7LPSt-8Rczojk3SWFzPjr4mSa-7chtNhTn22s5dxuUjMlhfhitrye1P21e7ID4JpPR2JI-QmVzeiibt4UlRgoW7RFjH-byhNKNrWBQcyQIiPv6_Vx2qS-8CUBnacbTXgV_QW7bJCSfGq-Q5t2pzbI6L5e-7bs-3oxWGuiK84kGsz5IR45s_aQaSNsAntdGchkFrowVQOeWZA2XpecO-zTJLinpBMdnPSjDSLIvp9mPInVJas/http%3A%2F%2Flists.firesprinkler.org%2Flistinfo.cgi%2Fsprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://lists.firesprinkler.org/listinfo.cgi/sprinklerforum-firesprinkler.org
