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Relocated IT room in an existing medical office building that is fully sprinkled NFPA 13
The architect wants to install a Clean Agent System in the IT room and remove the 2 water supplied sprinkler heads. 904.2 states an alternative fire extinguishing system has to be approved by the fire code official. We have approved a few of them with the condition the water supplied sprinkler heads where installed/remained. We allow them to install high temp heads to avoid the water discharging before the Clean Agent System has time to work.
The architect and his client are adamant about removing the existing heads.
Question
Are we being overly cautious by requiring a back up system in case the first one malfunctions or is over run? Any history of system failures?
The architect wants to install a Clean Agent System in the IT room and remove the 2 water supplied sprinkler heads. 904.2 states an alternative fire extinguishing system has to be approved by the fire code official. We have approved a few of them with the condition the water supplied sprinkler heads where installed/remained. We allow them to install high temp heads to avoid the water discharging before the Clean Agent System has time to work.
The architect and his client are adamant about removing the existing heads.
Question
Are we being overly cautious by requiring a back up system in case the first one malfunctions or is over run? Any history of system failures?