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For , Section and Table 6. Definitions were added for construction types to assure that these were in harmony with the International Building Code. Another confusing requirement that was clarified concerns the requirements and exceptions to those requirements for placement of Class I standpipe connections at horizontal exits. To that end, Section 7. The intent is that if areas on one side of a horizontal exit can be completely covered by a hose taken from one or more stairwell standpipes, it is not required to install a Class 1 connection on the opposite site of a horizontal exit.

New Section 7. Section 7. This section came into the standard by way of committee reaction to concerns that the practice of using master reducing valves to create zones was becoming more commonplace, but the performance of these valves in the field was inconsistent and entirely dependent on the intensity of inspection, testing and maintenance ITM on the systems.

To assure functionality to the greatest extent possible, redundancy and accessibility are required in Section 7. Many listed reducing valves have a strict range of flows to which they are to be applied, so it is also required that the minimum flow rate of the regulators be considered, which may require a smaller second pair of redundant reducing valves to allow for low flows like one or two sprinklers. The foundation for these requirements was that master pressure reducing valves may not be the best solution, but in most cases is the cheapest.

Where multiple standpipes in a building terminate at different floors, it is not required that the maximum gross building flow with allowances for every standpipe up to the limit be considered on floors where fewer standpipes occur. The classic example is a high-rise tower with two standpipes that rises from a podium base with a total of four or more standpipes.

At the highest and most demanding level of the podium, a higher flow rate — up to 1, gpm for a sprinklered building — must be proven, but the two-riser tower only requires gpm for its most demanding levels. Knowing the content and how to navigate any of the NFPA standards is an important part of what we do in fire protection system design and construction, but with standpipes there is another aspect to the application of the standard that is often overlooked by both industry and fire service: How will this system actually be used in practice?

NFPA 14 serves multiple stakeholders: it must address the designer and installer to be sure, but consideration is also given to responders who will use the system. What type of equipment do they carry? What size hoses and tips? What flows and pressures will they require to bring one or more attack lines forward from a fire hose connection?

What size and configuration of FDC inlets serve them best? To incorporate these variables into a system, the designer must know or acquire such information from the serving fire department.

Chapter 12 Buildings Under Construction In all new buildings in which standpipes are systems that do not have a permanently attached water supply. The standpipes shall be provided with conspicuously marked and readily accessible fire The pipe sizes, hose valves, hose, A.

The standpipes shall be securely edition and earlier editions. The changes in future editions will supported and restrained at each alternate floor. Compliance with all requirements of a future edition could be The standpipes shall be NFPA or other appropriate standards. The authority having jurisdiction The phrase Where In height required by the AHJ. The means for identifying listed equipment Connections. The authority having jurisdiction department connections and hose connections.

An auxiliary drain connection is not a main drain connection and is not intended to be used for testing the attached water supply. An auxiliary Chapter 13 System Testing, Inspection, and Maintenance drain is also not intended to be operated under pressure. A standpipe system installed in accordance with A. Sometimes an area of refuge can also be found in the in accordance with NFPA 25 to provide at least the same level stairwell.

A valve is required only in the stairwell, not on both of performance and protection as originally designed. Examples include Annex A Explanatory Material pressure-reducing valves, pressure control valves, and pressure- restricting devices.

Annex A is not a part of the requirements of this NFPA document but is included for informational purposes only. This annex contains A. A pressure relief valve is explanatory material, numbered to correspond with the applicable text not a pressure-reducing valve and should not be used as such.

This arrangement is accomplished The load due to the internal pressure can be accommodated by means of connections to water supply systems or by means of with a weld that has a conservative weld throat thickness that pumps, tanks, and other equipment necessary to provide an can be calculated as follows: adequate supply of water to the hose connections. Waiting for the manufacturer to there is a factor of more than 5 times the calculated thickness produce fittings on special order can take several weeks.

It is value. To accomplish this, the lation, causing unnecessary delays in the project. The A. Subsection 4. In-place pertain to hose valves located in closets and cabinets. As a building code and fire prevention code. Design of standpipe result, the standard requires that all piping be shop-welded. As designed see 4. Table A. Nominal Pipe A.

The fire pump is 4 0. The fire department b 0. Where exposed to cold, the dry pipe valve should be located in a valve room or enclosure A. It is the intent of the committee to protect the valves from freezing. Air piping should not be attached to the intake an acceptable location. Damage, air reduction, or reduced life expectancy can ing to a suitable location. Usually with a accepted means should be provided where necessary.

In systems with only a manual wet standpipe, of preference: connection to any readily available water source is acceptable. A ing at least 40 ft There is 3 Valves located in risers with indicating posts arranged for no minimum size requirement for this connection.

All valves controlling water supplies for standpipe systems or portions thereof, including floor control valves to sprinkler systems and standpipe isolation valves, should be accessible to 1 in. Permanent ladders, to Pressure Fire Indicating-type floor control gauge valve with supervisory switch Check department Waterflow To connection valve switch sprinkler system.

Header Check in valve valve room. Drain riser. The area of a floor or fire area and exit locations, as well Fire To as the occupancy classification, determines the number and department sprinkler locations of hose connections.

Local building codes influence connection system types of systems, classes of systems, and locations of hose Fire hose valve connections. Pipe sizing is dependent on the number of hose connections flowing, the quantity of water flowed, the required To drain Grade level residual pressure, and the vertical distance and horizontal Drain valve distance of those hose connections from the water supplies.

For typical elevation drawings, see Figure A. See Chapter 7 with ball drip Waterflow switch for general system requirements. See Note 2 Pressure gauge A. Sprinkler floor assembly in accordance with NFPA 13, supply sprinklers.

This could require the use of two devices Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems. Because the issue addressed by the height limits has always been maximum pressure, pressure limitations are a more direct method of regulation and allow A. For Class I standpipes, a pressure-regulating device should The maximum system pressure normally is at pump churn.

The psi 24 bar limit was selected nents, including fire hose and fire nozzles of the responding because it is the maximum pressure at which most system fire suppression company, are rated for the anticipated static components are available, and it recognizes the need for a and residual pressures, subject to approval by the AHJ.

Due to reasonable pressure unit. Design residual inlet and outlet pressures for the If the standpipe is equipped with pressure-reducing hose connections identified above: valves, the valve acts as a check valve, prohibiting pumping into Design static pressure and design system demand the system when the valve is open.

Pressure gauge Pressure gauge. Drain valve Drain valve High zone HZ. Float valve. High zone pump can be arranged to take suction directly from source of supply.

Paragraph 7. Only single sprinkler on a combined system. These should also be one standpipe is necessary to serve the roof regardless of the arranged such that the failure of a single device does not allow travel distances in 7.

The approach to locating hose connections with respect to See Figure A. These arrangements make it possible to use Class II system hose streams promptly in case the stairway is filled with people who are escaping at the time of fire. To fire Pressure department gauge connection Normally Normally closed closed. Drain valve Normally Normally Normally Normally open open open open. Water flow Note: FDC required downstream of pressure-regulating device but not switch required immediately adjacent thereto.

Pressure gauge Hose connection. Location of Hose Connections in. In such cases, such outlets are unlikely to be utilized, since there would not be a staging area for fire fighters to use when accessing the hose connection. Therefore, ate landings. The intermediate landing is usually located in additional hose connections, where provided to meet distance close proximity to the top of the stairwell.

Such connections departments with the authority to require additional hose also should be located as uniformly as possible from floor to connections outside of or away from locations required in floor so that fire fighters can find them easily during a fire.

In those cases, such outlets are unlikely A. One arrangement that fighters to use when accessing the hose connection. Therefore, might be found in certain residential buildings is that two additional hose connections, where provided to meet distance remotely located exit stairs provide the occupants two distinct requirements, should be located in 1-hour fire-resistive exit means of egress. This section allows a single hose connection to corridors wherever possible, to provide a degree of protection be located anywhere between the exit stairs, provided the exit for fire fighters accessing the connection.

Such connections stairs are open and are located within 75 ft 23 m of each also should be located as uniformly as possible from floor to other. Access could also be a permanent departments with the authority to require additional hose ladder, permanent ladder rungs, or a pull-down stair with a connections outside of or away from locations required in roof hatch. These additional hose connections could be needed to allow fire fighters to attach a fire hose in a reasonable time A.

Hose valve Capped wrench head valve control or wall-type indicator post Open Roof stairs. Pipe sleeve Escutcheon plates. A Square rod. A single hose Special valve is permitted coupling anywhere between A and B. Interconnection should occur as close to the source of supply ies as possible. Open Standpipe systems in separate buildings or structures fed by stairs the same water supply are not required to be interconnected. In those cases, such outlets are unlikely remote hose connection, the pressure loss in the hose valve to be utilized, since there would not be a staging area for fire should be considered.

Such connections NFPA should not be used for standpipe operations also should be located as uniformly as possible from floor to because many of these types require a minimum of psi 6. The bar of pressure at the nozzle inlet to produce a reasonably ft 61 m distance allowed for sprinklered buildings could effective fire stream. In standpipe operations, hose friction loss necessitate additional hose lengths in order to reach the most could prevent the delivery of psi 6.

Many fire departments use combination fog and straight stream nozzles requiring psi 6. J K I L Some departments use 50 ft See Table A. See also NFPA Manual standpipe systems are designed sized to provide psi 6. It is the intent of Section 7. When standpipe systems are subdivided to eliminate or because the definition of horizontal standpipe includes the idea avoid the use of pressure-reducing valves, such subdivisions that the pipe feeds two or more outlets.

Lateral runs of pipe, should not constitute a standpipe system zone. For the system shown in A. Calculation Valve Outlet Flow No. B, and C]. The second would need to prove that the system can deliver psi 6. The procedure at points D, E, F, and G].

The procedure for determining the hydraulic characteristics of fire apparatus supplying a standpipe A. The common supply piping should be at the level of design specifications set forth in NFPA These are the standpipe system. Therefore, a gpm A.

Residual supply pressure on the A. To perform a hydraulic design, one should determine the A. Such equipment is the basis through system piping to each water supply, accumulating for the pressure selected in accordance with Section 7.

When considering fire apparatus as a water supply, flows are A. Otherwise, the piping design or the water A. Given the requirement in 7. You may delete a document from your Alert Profile at any time.

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