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FPE 1st Quarter 2006
Currently, the warehouse and distribution industries are faced with some major challenges that are impacting the typical way that business is being done.
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Chapter 12 of NFPA 13, Installation of Sprinkler Systems1 contains extensive information regarding the design of automatic sprinkler systems for storage occupancies.
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History shows that many advances in warehouse fire protection were derived from the lessons learned during the investigation process after catastrophic or otherwise significant fire losses.
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A fire protection engineer designing sprinklers for a storage/distribution or "big box" retail facility is faced with a bewildering array of new sprinkler types and models from which to choose.
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Big Box retail facilities have been a growing part of the retail environment for the last 15 years. These types of facilities have created some unique fire protection challenges.
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Does duct smoke detection really work? Is it worth the cost? Is the potential
for false and nuisance alarms worth the added protection? The universal answer
to all fire protection questions is: It depends.
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From an owner's perspective, there is a myriad of concerns relative to protecting a storage facility. The expectation is that the fire protection engineer will aggressively attack a design problem and come up with the right balance to adequately address life safety and property protection.
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Performance-based design is typically implemented in one of two methods: (1) as a means to determine equivalency to a prescriptive code or standard, or (2) as an approach to achieve broadly defined fire safety goals and objectives.
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