I have a plan submitted for a large addition to a church. In an effort to avoid sprinklers, the architect has provided a fire wall to create two separate buildings. The fire wall extends to the exterior side walls of the existing building with a 1 hour wall 4' back at each corner (one side only perpendicular to the fire wall). The problem is, the addition is 30' wider than the existing building and where the fire wall stops and turns back 4' along the existing sidewalls, the new exterior wall for the addition continues another 15' on each side.
In order to create two separate buildings with a fire wall, does the wall not have to extend to the limits of the wider of the two separate buildings created?
In order to create two separate buildings with a fire wall, does the wall not have to extend to the limits of the wider of the two separate buildings created?