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Clearance Sheet C2020-007158

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	Plans for a preliminary review of a 115,410sf, 2 story assisted living facility with memory care. The building is type VA (V111) and will be provided with a NFPA 13 fire sprinkler system for the building and porte cochere and a fire alarm system. The building is separated on each floor by a 2 hour fire wall which creates horizontal exits, and additionally 1 hour smoke barriers as required by NFPA 101:32.3.3.7. The plans are NOT APPROVED as submitted for the following reasons. Reviewed using FFPC 6th edition effective Dec. 31, 2017. Reviewer: PJ Webb 904 209 1744 To schedule fire inspections please call 827-6842 (automated system). Questions about inspections please call 209-1740x1. Review by the AHJ shall not relieve the applicant of the responsibility for compliance with the Code.
	RESUBMITTING: Please make necessary changes and resubmit the complete permit application package. Response to comments / plans / specifications should be submitted to the Permit Center as a resubmission for the original project unless other arrangements are made with the Fire Plan Reviewer or the Fire Plan Review Supervisor. To help speed the review process you *should* include a written response to comments summary to clarify *and/or* illustrate corrections on plans (bubbling, highlighting, or notations are best). Please use the *Florida Fire Prevention Code 6th Ed.* for all code reference in a response to comments. You are required to remove old pages and reinsert the new pages. The numbered items require a response or plans to be updated to complete the review.
	1) The submittal was preliminary. I cannot approve the plans until a clearance sheet is issued.
	2) Sprinkler Engineering (FP pages) have not been provided. This information must be provided with the building plans. Note the system must be an NFPA 13 system with quick response or residential heads per NFPA 101:32.3.3.5.1. An ENGINEERED sealed Design Criteria for a fire sprinkler system exceeding 49 heads is required to be submitted with the general construction documents. We are unable to approve the plan until this information is provided. *It is not a full set of shop drawing* FLORIDA ADMINISTRATIVE CODE 61G15-32.004
	3) Not less than 15sf per resident (net) must be provided within the corridors, lounge or dining areas and other low hazard areas on each side of the smoke barriers. Show this on the plans. NFPA 101:32.3.3.7.11.
	4) Similar to comment 3 above, 3sf per resident must be provided on each side of the horizontal exits (2 hour fire walls). NFPA 101:7.2.4.2.4. Indicate this on the plans.
	5) Each fire compartment which is credited with a horizontal exit also shall have at least 1 additional exit provided. 2nd floor Zone "B" as indicated on sheet G1.04b must be provided with an egress stair as indicated in NFPA 101:7.2.4.2.1.
	6) Fire extinguishers must be provided in both courtyards. Sheet G1.04E does not show extinguishers in those areas. Ensure that the installing extinguisher contractor accounts for these spaces.
	7) Show the occupant load factors that were used for the occupant load calculations chart on sheet G1.04g per table 7.3.1.2 of NFPA 1. It appears that there are several locations that utilize the 50 factor in the building including the courtyards. Please indicate which factor on the table you are utilizing and the thought process behind it.
	8) The assembly classification for the dining areas is not an accessory or incidental use as indicated in NFPA 101:6.1.14. The assembly classification must be considered in the code analysis and included in the code summary with residential board and care. Identify whether you will be treating it as multiple mixed use or multiple separated use.
	9) Sheet G1.07a requires fire alarm smoke detectors in resident bedrooms, corridors, hallways, living rooms, dining rooms, offices and public or common areas. This is in addition to the requirements of NFPA 32.3.3.4.8.1 which requires smoke detectors to be located in corridors and spaces open to corridors. This will be verified when the fire alarm is submitted. This was not indicated in the FA information contained in these plans.
	10) Demonstrate that illumination of means of egress (normal lighting) will be met, especially in the MC and AL courtyards and the theatre room. NFPA 101:32.3.2.8.
	11) Emergency lighting I do not see emergency lighting indicated on the electrical sheets. Will you be utilizing a life safety generator for this purpose? If yes how will you meet the requirements for circuit failure and accidental failure indicated in NFPA 101:7.9.2.3 (2) and (3). If only certain egress lights will be tied to the generator indicate this on the plans. Note: Emergency light coverage is required in the courtyards as well.
	12) Generator A separate permit is required for the generator. A hold has been placed on the permit for this information and no inspection past insulation will be performed until this is submitted.
	13) Include the courtyards in the life safety plan calculations. Ensure that the path of egress follows the true path around obstructions as indicated on the landscaping plans.
	14) Storage rooms exceeding 50 square feet and less than 100 square feet must be protected by a smoke partition. Storage areas exceeding 100sf must be 1 hour rated. Indicate on the plans that the 50-100 sf storage rooms will meet smoke partition requirements. In addition it was noted that the door for storage room 249 is not indicated as rated on the door schedule. NFPA 101:table 32.3.3.2.2.
	15) Living unit door numbers/identifiers do not appear to be indicated on the plans or the door schedule. Provide this information. Ensure that you indicate the appropriate fire or smoke rating requirements.
	16) Provide specification and details for the M2100 smoke guard doors/curtains that are proposed for the vertical opening between floors.
	17) Fire Rated doors. The doors below appear to be indicated along rated walls that are either missing a rating, door closer or the rating is not sufficient. See below for details: 150- No rating no closer 170- No rating no closer All stair doors indicated as 45 minute. 1 hour required. NFPA 101:table 8.3.4.2 240- No rating 237a- No rating, no closer 249-No rating 248-No rating no closer 210-No rating no closer 211- No rating no closer 201- No rating no closer 203- No rating no closer 205- No rating no closer 201- No rating no closer 215a- no rating 215b- no rating 215c- no rating 219- no rating 220a- no rating 216- no rating 220- no closer no rating
	18) Informational Comment: For ease in identifying rated walls in the building it may help to symbolize the wall with legend in addition to or in lieu of flagging them. There appear to be UL U305 tags throughout most of the project indicating a 1 hour rating which resulted in comment 17.
	19) Records Room Are you intending to apply NFPA 232 "Standard for the protection of records" to the charting and records room 219? The owner is who typically determines whether the records justify protection and if so, which classification they should fall under. NFPA 232 1.1.6 and 1.1.7 2012 edition as adopted.
	20) There are offices indicated along 1 hour rated walls. These doors cannot be propped open to maintain the fire rating. I would recommend considering magnetic hold opens tied to the fire alarm in these locations to allow full flexibility of the space while maintaining the fire rating.
	21) Please take a look at the exit signage for the ALF courtyard. I do not see clear exit and exit access signage on the plan north end of the courtyard. I do see one sign but I am not sure what it is indicating. Sheet EL201b. Also will the accordian doors be used for egress at the north end of the courtyard or will the single side hinged door be used? This will be clarified when comment 13 is addressed. Whichever doors are utilized for egress, indicate on the plans that the doors utilized as egress from the courtyards will not be locked from inside of the courtyard and ensure exit signage is visible from the center of both courtyards.
	22) Egress locking arrangements It is indicated on the plans that there are special locking arrangements being utilized in this project. This information will require a separate submittal (revision) to our office. When submitting provide a clean floor plan identifying locations of any special locks (magnets, keypads, delayed egress, electronic egress etc.). In addition provide all associated material specification sheets and a brief narrative on how each door is intended to operate. Note: there are indications on doors that will have panic hardware that magnets will be used in conjunction. The magnet must be listed for use with the panic hardware for direct release. By looking at the door hardware, it appears that at least the following doors will be included: 101, 150b, 151a, 168a, 176, ST3b, S1, C1, C2, C3, C4. Also provide sheets TS65.01 and TS6.02 with this submittal. A hold will be placed on the building permit for this information. No inspections past insulation will be conducted until this is addressed.
	23) Are you planning to use a wander guard egress system or similar in the memory care side? If so, indicate this when you submit for comment 22.
	24) INFORMATIONAL ONLY NO RESPONSE NECESSARY: The system(s) outlined in this set of plans is conceptual. A HOLD has been placed at insulation inspection (109) until either: a) a permit has been pulled or b) a letter submitted from respective system contractor indicating no work to be done to the existing system: - fire alarm system - fire sprinkler system - fire underground - kitchen hood - kitchen suppression system - Fire/smoke damper inspections - Fire Pump - Locking arrangements - Generator Permit
	25) There are several sheets that contain kitchen hood information (CaptiveAire). One of the following things need to take place to approval of the plans. Remove all of the hood information from the plans. Provide all of the information needed for hood permit including an application so the kitchen hood permit can be processed. Add a note to the hood drawings indicating that the hood submittal will be deferred and submitted as a separate permit. M3.05 detail 5 and CaptiveAire sheets 1-18.
	26) The patio doors cannot lock from the patio side. I do not see the Morning Porch (233) doors identified on the floor plan or door schedule to verify this. Provide this information.
	27) The electrical plans do not indicate smoke alarms as per NFPA 101:32.3.3.4.7 in the dwelling units. If the plan is to provide fire alarm system smoke detectors that function in the same manner as single station smoke alarms per NFPA 101:9.6.2.10.6, indicate this on the plans and show appropriate details when the alarm plans are submitted.
	28) Activities 131 is indicated with a residential style range. Cooking facilities must be protected with a hood and suppression system based upon NFPA 101:32.3.3.8.1 unless permitted by 32.3.3.8.2, 32.3.3.8.3, or 32.3.3.8.4. 32.3.3.8.2 is not applicable because based on commentary it is intended for small appliance reheating such as microwaves, hot plates, toasters and nourishment centers. Take a look at NFPA 101:32.3.3.8.3 and 32.3.3.8.4 and demonstrate compliance with either. If not protection will be required in accordance with NFPA 96 (Hood and suppression system). This applies to any residential range locations that may have been missed.
	29) Sheet FS-1.0 indicates 2 downdraft vent modules. What cooking equipment is intended for use at these locations? The same requirements in comment 28 apply here as well.
	30) Will the building have a piped CO2 system for beverages, or will portable tanks be utilized? If it will have a system, indicate the capacity of your beverage CO2 system on the plans. If the system exceeds 100 pounds of product, demonstrate compliance with NFPA 1:63.3.1.2.4.1 on the plans.
	31) The life safety plan indicates that multiple egress paths utilize the MC dining area for egress from the building. In looking at the proposed furniture plan, there does not appear to be a clearly defined path through the tables in the MC dining room, as there is in the AL dining room. Ensure that a 44" clear path is provided for egress. NFPA 101:12.2.5.8.2
	32) The two stairs indicated on plan right discharge into an area that is flanked on both sides by continuations of the building, which contain windows. Per NFPA 101:7.2.2.5.2.1 the walls within 10 of the stairwell including opening protection must meet the same rating as the stairs. Indicate on the plans that the walls and windows will meet the rating requirements.

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