Morphdesigns
Sawhorse
Thank you all for the comments you have made on my other post in this forum.
Here is a 2nd question for all of you gurus.
For this project, I have 3 rooms that require spill control and containment. A Mixing rm, a Distiller room, and a Storage rm. Per IFC, I need to provide containment for 20 min. of sprinkler going off + largest container size. Each one of these rooms require a 25,000 gal containment.
The original method I was designing is a room containment, which is the thread I started before. Each room would need to be designed to hold 25k gal of water.
After a discussion with the builder, we are looking at other options. Per 5004.2.1, another method available for containment is to provide drains to a remote collection tank. If I do an tank, do I need a tank for each one of these rooms, so (3) 25,000 gal tanks, or do I just need (1) 25,000 gal tank because only 1 or the other room sprinkler heads would be going off, not both at the same time. Plus these rooms are separated by a 2 or 3 hr fire resistive cmu wall.
I have discussed this with our design-build sprinkler company we are using for this project, and they agree that only 1 tank is required, from their interpretation of the code. I just would like to make sure if others have done a project similar and give their opinion.
Thank you all.
Here is a 2nd question for all of you gurus.
For this project, I have 3 rooms that require spill control and containment. A Mixing rm, a Distiller room, and a Storage rm. Per IFC, I need to provide containment for 20 min. of sprinkler going off + largest container size. Each one of these rooms require a 25,000 gal containment.
The original method I was designing is a room containment, which is the thread I started before. Each room would need to be designed to hold 25k gal of water.
After a discussion with the builder, we are looking at other options. Per 5004.2.1, another method available for containment is to provide drains to a remote collection tank. If I do an tank, do I need a tank for each one of these rooms, so (3) 25,000 gal tanks, or do I just need (1) 25,000 gal tank because only 1 or the other room sprinkler heads would be going off, not both at the same time. Plus these rooms are separated by a 2 or 3 hr fire resistive cmu wall.
I have discussed this with our design-build sprinkler company we are using for this project, and they agree that only 1 tank is required, from their interpretation of the code. I just would like to make sure if others have done a project similar and give their opinion.
Thank you all.