A friend and I are volunteers at a summer camp for developmentally disabled children and adults. The camp is getting ready to build bunk houses.
The contractor tells us that fire sprinklers are required in the bunk houses. The well water supply doesn't have adequate volume for sprinklers, so a $100,000 pump system from the lake would appear to be necessary.
Is there a fire resistant building design that would eliminate the need for sprinklers and the expense of this pump system while meeting code? My career was as an engineer on merchant ships, and the accommodations are all fire resistant following U.S. & international requirements. No sprinklers. The only wood is in the pencil in my pocket. Bedding and personal belongings are the only flammable items. (In the older ships the wall paneling was compressed asbestos(!) with melamine cladding on both sides.)
And, at the camp, there is only one electrical distribution supply line. Might the fire suppression water pump at the lake require a standby generator set?
Many thanks in advance.
The contractor tells us that fire sprinklers are required in the bunk houses. The well water supply doesn't have adequate volume for sprinklers, so a $100,000 pump system from the lake would appear to be necessary.
Is there a fire resistant building design that would eliminate the need for sprinklers and the expense of this pump system while meeting code? My career was as an engineer on merchant ships, and the accommodations are all fire resistant following U.S. & international requirements. No sprinklers. The only wood is in the pencil in my pocket. Bedding and personal belongings are the only flammable items. (In the older ships the wall paneling was compressed asbestos(!) with melamine cladding on both sides.)
And, at the camp, there is only one electrical distribution supply line. Might the fire suppression water pump at the lake require a standby generator set?
Many thanks in advance.
