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<br />Fire Marshal Report <br /> <br />November 29, 2004 <br /> <br />Appeal Request #04-003 <br /> <br />Requested by: <br /> <br />Melissa L. Centanni, ALA Vice President (Architect for United Methodist Church) <br /> <br />Requested for: <br /> <br />Appeal to Fire Code Review Board to ensure that the new family life building can have an <br />occupancy load over 300 people without requiring the installation of an automatic fire <br />sprinkler system perNFPA 101, 1997 Life Safety Code section 8-3.5, exception no. 2, and <br />Appendix A <br /> <br />Location: <br /> <br />9601 Fairmont <br /> <br />Project Hx: <br /> <br />The Fire Code Review Board on October 20th, 2004 approved an appeal from SLI & <br />United Methodist Church for the construction of their new family life building without an <br />automatic fire sprinkler system. This appeal was based upon an email indicating that a <br />sprinkler system was not needed, and that the building would not exceed an occupant <br />load of 300 people. <br /> <br />Building Information: <br /> <br />"This project involves construction of a one story family life building (11,010 S.F. First <br />Floor Only) 7,270 square feet consist of a concrete tilt wall building with a concrete slab <br />on grade foundation and steel bar joist roof framing. The remaining 3,740 square feet <br />consist of a wood stud frame building with brick veneer, composition shingle roof, and a <br />prefabricated wood roof trusses. The new building and the existing building are <br />separated by a four-hour concrete masonry unit wall except where the 7 1/4 "thick <br />concrete tilt wall serves as part of the four hour separation this fire wall will be built 18" <br />above the existing building gable and the new building roofs." <br /> <br />Analvsis: <br /> <br />Ordinance amendment 603.15.9 states: In addition to any other fire and/or building code <br />requirements, the following occupancies shall be totally equipped with a sprinkler <br />system. Section 1. (A) All Class A assembly occupancies. <br /> <br />The adopted NFPA Life Safety Code 1997 ed. A-8-1.4 states: "Assembly occupancy <br />requirements should be based on a room-by-room basis, a floor-by-floor basis, and a total <br />building basis. The requirements for each room should be based on the occupant load of <br />that room and the requirements for each floor should be based on the occupant load of <br />that floor, but the requirements for the assembly building overall should be based on the <br />total occupant load. Therefore, it is quite feasible to have several assembly occupancies <br />with occupant loads of 300 or less grouped together in a single building and that <br />building would be an assembly occupancy with an occupant load of over 1000. " <br /> <br />Note: Assembly occupancies with 300 or greater load requires a sprinkler system _ <br />ifthe occupant load was to go over 1000 the type of construction would be reviewed. <br /> <br />United Methodist Church <br />Fire Review Request <br />