C. NOTES:
1. Indicate NFPA 220 and UBC fire resistive rating of the building, NFPA 101
occupancy type, and fire protection code analysis to access compliance with
NFPA 101.
2. Determine type, features, age, reliability, compliance with present day codes,
capacity, zoning, supervision, control panel and power supplies, initiating devices
and circuits, and auxiliary functions for existing fire alarm system. Indicate
manufacturer, model number, voltage, and wiring style of existing alarm systems
and devices. Provide recommendations for the proposed fire alarm work.
3. Provide information to meet JCAHO requirements; e.g. location of all fire
rated barriers, smoke barriers, exit signs, fire extinguishers, manual pull stations,
smoke detectors, and sprinkler flow switches. Show all interim life safety
measures such as temporary systems Fire Alarm, Sprinkler, and Smoke.
4. At DD Submission, add room names, room numbers, door locations and
swings, smoke and fire rated partitions, sprinkler/standpipe risers to floor plans.
Identify psychiatric areas on drawings so areas for institutional type heads are
identified. Add location of all valves (post indicator, sectional) and backflow
preventer if provided.
5. Show new equipment and/or the necessary changes involved if modification
to the existing system is required. Include any recommendations where certain
requirements of VA criteria might be waived, in order to allow the existing
equipment to be reused.
Program Guide, PG-18-15, Volume C
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May 2006
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