What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
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I've always used it to identify the hydraulically most remote area such as "Northeast Corner of Building" or "Plastics Storage Room" etc because often the hydraulically most demanding area is not the area farthest away from the riser.
I do not think this is for the building address.
Sorry for the silly questions lately but there's no such thing as a silly question. This is what happens when you hire a new layout technician trainee who asks questions you may not have thought about in decades. :)





RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
Travis Mack
MFP Design, LLC
www.mfpdesign.com
RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
I figure I'm not the one to be second guessing Tyco, so all of our calc placards now show the building address in that space.
RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
NFPA 13-2010 24.5.2 The sign shall include the following information:
(1) Location of the design area or areas
Which appears to be separate from 24.6's "general information sign"
(1) Name and location of facility protected
RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
In my NFPA 13 that is the "Summary Sheet" figure, which is a document as opposed to a placard/sign.
Section 25.5 (NFPA 13) addresses the hydraulic signage/placard.
Here is a photo from the NFPA 13 handbook,
http://i.imgur.com/lK4RZUs.jpg
It's hard to read, but on that one they put the building floor and hydraulic area number to indicate location of the hydraulic area the placard is talking about, which is what makes intuitive sense to me (which would be helpful if you have multiple hydraulic areas on your plans)
RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?
"As-built drawings often become lost or misplaced over time. By keeping a permanent record of the design parameters attached to the system riser, as required by 25.5.1, it is much easier and less costly to perform any future modifications or work on the system. The information contained on such a nameplate is also of vital importance in assessing the ability of the system to
control fires as the building’s occupancy changes or the water supply’s strength deteriorates."
So I take that to confirm the theory that the placard/signs sole purpose is to act as replacement hydraulic data in case the as builts become lost. In that case, the physical building address is doing nothing for the designer who has no as builts, as he can just look outside and find the street sign.. he needs to know which floor and which hydraulic area the placard he is looking at (attached to some valve) is talking about.
RE: What do you enter for the "Location" on a standard hydraulic calculation placard?