Covered Mall Fire Protection
Covered Mall Fire Protection
(OP)
Greetings,
I have a three story covered mall with a combined standpipe system. It's in Puerto Rico so the governing codes are NFPA and UBC with the approval of the AHJ. As far as I know, the building should be sprinklered throughout, yet the unoccupied tenant spaces are not. They were left with a 4" capped provision to allow the future tenants to install their own sprinklers system with individual control valve. The lease contract requires the tenant to do so, so at 100% occupancy the building should be sprinklered throughout. Is this allowed by code, or must the owner install sprinklers in the unoccupied tenant spaces and then require the tenant to modify the layout as necessary?
Thanks for your time.
I have a three story covered mall with a combined standpipe system. It's in Puerto Rico so the governing codes are NFPA and UBC with the approval of the AHJ. As far as I know, the building should be sprinklered throughout, yet the unoccupied tenant spaces are not. They were left with a 4" capped provision to allow the future tenants to install their own sprinklers system with individual control valve. The lease contract requires the tenant to do so, so at 100% occupancy the building should be sprinklered throughout. Is this allowed by code, or must the owner install sprinklers in the unoccupied tenant spaces and then require the tenant to modify the layout as necessary?
Thanks for your time.





RE: Covered Mall Fire Protection
Sounds like they are allowing it
Should not be that way
RE: Covered Mall Fire Protection
RE: Covered Mall Fire Protection
When a tenant moves in it's their responsibility to modify the sprinkler protection based on the requirements in NFPA 13.
RE: Covered Mall Fire Protection
As far as NFPA goes it only indicates that building must be sprinkler throughout but the AHJ can always supersede the code or standard.
RE: Covered Mall Fire Protection
RE: Covered Mall Fire Protection
Ethnicity never asks if the building is involved in fire. You sir are wrong in your interpretation of the model building code.
RE: Covered Mall Fire Protection
I know what you are saying. What I meant is that being puertorican I worked in the island in the past and never seen such set up.
It amaze me that AHJ did not required what the current building codes and national codes requires.