I am working in an HVAC/plumbing consulting firm. The question is if there is a summery sheet available for building water demand per NFPA for various scenarios based on building size (number of system risers), occupancy, type of fire suppression system (wet/dry), building fully sprinklered or...
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If I want to size DCW for an office building with 10 water closets with flash tank and two urinals with flash valve what would be the criteria for pipe sizing? Should I go all the way down to meter considering a system with flush valves and corresponding oversized pipes or I need only...
Currently I am working on a one family 4-story dwelling project. The design has to comply with 13D 1999. I only have 13D 1996 handy. Are these two any different in terms of residential sprinkler spacing and locations. Can you please highlight the differences?
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Thanks for your reply and feedback. I am aware of that part of code dealing with offsets in soil/waste stacks. However, what I am addressing is an arbitrary short offset in a stack actintg as a bumper just to reduce vertical velocity and associated noise. I am wondering about its...
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Although this forum is dedicated to HVAC and Refrigeration, however, I think all who are involved in design of building mechancial systems, including plumbing, cross here. So I dare to post my inquiry here.
Have you ever heard or seen of any requirement (as per code or good engineering...
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I am sizing a pressure tank for domestic cold water supply system in a multi-story building. I have come to the point that I need to decide what should be the maximum permissible booster pump motor cycle for a safe and long lasting operation. whould you please give me an advice or a rule of...
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I just installed a demo version of lisa finite element analysing software which is a vb based program. as per developer's instructions before installing the core program I installed 3 runtime files in order (vb40032a, vb500a, vb500b). Now, whenever I launch the program I get "rutime error 7...
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Thanks for all feedbacks. I am still shopping around. For those who are looking for a freebie there is one called wintopo. you can download it from www.wintopo.com.
Of course a demo of its pro version is also available, but I have not tried yet.
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