* Submit, as a minimum, a single line layout for at a scale not less than 1:100 (1/8
inch). Submit a complete double line layout of areas of critical importance, at a
scale of 1:50 (1/4 inch) including equipment.
** Submit minimum 1:100 (1/8 inch) scale floor plans, new and renovated,
incorporating all of the revisions required by comments from schematics.
*** Submit fully dimensioned, complete, and coordinated 1:100 (1/8 inch) scale
floor plans, incorporating all revisions required by comments from the design
development phase.
G. 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. Show entire plan on one sheet, drawn at the largest scale possible. 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 temp systems
Fire Alarm Sprinkler, and Smoke;
4. At the Level 2 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; and
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 E
May 2006
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