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I have two ESFR systems that are identical. All the lines are the same minus a few. How do I get autosprink to list them with the same tags? Mains as well? Thank you

Simplex13, thank your your offer. My email address is Shawn.foor@gmail.com. Until I can get my business email up and running.

Thank you all for the replies. I appreciate all the advise and guidance. I am going to give it a go and see where the good Lord takes me. Foor and Associates will be up and running by the end of the month.

I was layed off last Friday. I have been in the fire protection business for the past 18 years. I am thinking about starting my own freelance design company. I am NICET IV in water based and level 1 in special hazards. Anyone else out there start their own design company?

Question: Does the main drain test and the residual psi at bor on the hydraulic data plate have any relation to each other?

We are bidding on a project that has two areas that are going to have grain silos in them. One of them is 150'-0" tall and the other 85'. I have never done a bulk storage application like this and am trying to figure out the requirements for fire protection. Can someone point me in the right...

I always run calcs on all systems in the building. If the systems are the same I will reuse the same nodes and just change the footage of bulk pipe as needed. I recently did a 150,000sqft tire distribution warehouse that three of the four systems were identical minus the bulk pipe footages. I...

I don't think it is required to be a rated wall. It may be option 2 cdafd. I am waiting on a call back from the contractor. Thank you for your responses

Thank you for your responses. The problem I see is its not an atrium. Its just a glass wall separating two offices.

I have a project that is a tenant finish out. The building is fully sprinklered with a portion already having a tenant in it. The existing tenant is a doctor's office/outpatient clinic. The space that we are finishing out is going to be the same occupancy. They are going to put a glass "wall"...

Have a competing bid to put cpvc in a restaurant. We bid black steel pipe. Have never seen cpvc in a restaurant before. Can it be done?

I have a project that consists of one three story apartment building. On the building code sheet it looks as though they took some increases for a sprinklered building. My question is if they took the allowences can you still do a 13R system or does it have to be a full 13?

The only instance where I could see you needing heads above is if they can store things above the ceiling or introduce combutibles some way.

The tanks hold chemicals for cleaning of parts for an aircraft part manufacturing facility.

I have a project that has some chemical dip tanks. The owner does not want us to put sprinklers over the area where the tanks are. What standard do I need to look at to find an alternative. The facility is 60,000 sq ft with the tanks covering around 4000 sq ft. Thank you for your help.