It's in Appendix B of IFC and is definitely in the realm of A/E team. Fire flow, hydrant spacing etc.. Is required for building permits (usually) and the fire line size should have been determined well before a sprinkler contractor was involved.
Sent from my iPhone > On Dec 22, 2015, at 1:46 PM, Brian Harris <[email protected]> wrote: > > Can someone please put into laymen's terms the difference between doing a > fire flow demand calc for the underground and the hydraulic calc's for the > sprinkler system? We have been running into some projects lately where the > civil engineer tries to pawn sizing the underground off onto the sprinkler > contractor. I try telling them that's their responsibility not ours but I'd > like something more definitive to have on hand. > > Brian Harris, CET > BVS Systems Inc. > Sprinkler Division > bvssystemsinc.com<http://bvssystemsinc.com/> > Phone: 704.896.9989 > Fax: 704.896.1935 > > _______________________________________________ > 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
