I'm checking to insure I haven't lost my mind. In a hospital setting what would you if you found bags and boxes of patient clothing being stored in a room that is not a rated room for storage or hazardous room. The room is sprinkled but as I read the Life Safety Code and NFPA standards the...
stookeyfpe, I can not conjugate a sentence of that perportion. There is not plate at the top of the doors. During JCAHO, I might be asked to back up the assertation that the doors did not require a fire resistive rating, point me in the right direction. Also, being that the doors are 13/4" would...
stokefpe, the room will be a chart room where the nurses and doctors will work. It will house a copier, fax and other small business machines. there are no obstrucitons in the room, the ceiling is popcorn treatd gypsm board. it leads into a dayroom where patients will be watching televison etc...
The hospital I work for was constructed in 1968 and none of the bedroom doors or corridor doors have fire rated name plates indicating burn time. Are plates available for these doors (13/4" solid core)?
Under NFPA 13 are there specific square footage requirements per sprinkler heads? I work in a hospital environemnt and the maintenance department is doing some remodeling in one of our buildings. One rooms has only one sprinkler head and is rather large. The buildings were built in 1968. The...
