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S&B Fire Protection
Systems Program
NEWS
FireX carbon monoxide and smoke alarms recalled by Maple Chase due to malfunction (CPSC)
Fire protection systems are not mandated in all new aircraft hangars in Wisconsin, PDF file
Presentations
from the Nov.
2007 Elevator Construction Symposium, including one on elevator fire
alarms
The
Safety and buildings Division teamed
with the Wisconsin Chapter of the Society of Fire Protection Engineers
to host a fire protection symposium for which instructors came from
around the country to share educational presentations and experiences
as related to the installation of fire sprinkler systems.
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Here is a PDF
file of Powerpoint presentation: "Update
on Technical Changes to Fire Sprinkler Requirements (NFPA 13 and IBC
2006)."
- Here is a PDF file of
Powerpoint presentation: "Fire
Pump Controllers."
** In August of 2007,the Madison
Fire Department
conducted a side-by-side live burn demonstration to compare the fire
patterns of a dwelling with
sprinklers versus a dwelling without sprinklers. The
demonstration took place at the top of State Street (at the
State-Mifflin-Carroll intersection) on Capitol Square.
Select
the Photos to Enlarge Them!
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The
controlled demonstration showed a cozy cubicle room without a fire
sprinkler flash into a blaze that left a blackened destroyed
death trap.
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Madison
Fire Department staff constructed the demonstration rooms and then city
Fire Marshall explained to the onlookers that the room on the right had
the needed residential fire sprinkler.
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At
State and Mifflin in Madison, the observers saw the progression of the
side-by-side burns, the one on the left without the sprinkler and the
one on the right where the sprinkler put the fire out.
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Program
Description: The Safety and Buildings
Division Fire
Protection System Program includes fire detection, notification, alarm,
and suppression systems. Rules
are administered pertaining to fire protection systems. There are
credentials administered for automatic fire sprinkler system workers,
according to Comm 5, Credentialing Code.
Fire protection system plan review is offered. See also Fire Prevention
Program,
Fire Department Safety and Health Program,
and Commercial Buildings Program.
1.
S&B
Contacts - Also fire department contact info GO
2. Fire
Protection
Plan Reviews GO
3.
Licenses and Registrations GO
4.
Wisconsin
Building Safety Network GO
Email
technical questions
about fire
protection systems to: fireprotech@commerce.state.wi.us
Fax technical questions about fire protection
systems to:
608-283-7405
Email groups have been set up for some S&B programs. You can sign up to
receive occasional messages from the Safety and Buildings Division
about news that is important to people interested in Fire Protection
Systems.
Contacts
Fire
Protection System Plan
Reviewers/Engineering Consultants are:
Lynne LeCount,
Waukesha, LLecount@commerce.state.wi.us,
262-548-8621;
Mark Gardetto, Waukesha, mark.gardetto@wisconsin.gov,
262-523-3044;
Keith Glaunert, Waukesha, kglaunert@commerce.state.wi.us,
262-548-8604. Lists of Wisconsin fire
departments' contacts and addresses
List
of Wisconsin Fire
Departments' WebSites.
Plan Review
Plan
Review Status Check - You can enter customer ID info and
learn
the status of your S&B scheduled plan review.
S&B has
a page for scheduling
commercial buildings plan reviews, including fire protection
systems.
Fire
Protection Agents: The following municipalities are delegated agents of
the department to perform plan review of fire detection
and suppression systems as prescribed under s. Comm 61.30.
City of Appleton
City of Burlington
City of Madison
Village of McFarland
City of Verona
The City of Milwaukee also has plan review authority. Fire Suppression
and Alarm Plans and Checklist PDF file
Combination water calc worksheet for home plumbing system and
13D fire protection system, SBD-10717 (N03/01) PDF
file, Word
97 file
Credentials
Credential status
checks.
Credential application forms.
Credential prerequisites.
Fire sprinkler credential holder lists, PDF file, Excel file.
Contact the Credentialing Unit, madisoncred@commerce.state.wi.us,
608-261-8500.
Credential program.
WBSN
The
Wisconsin Building Safety Network
is a
new name for a long-standing group of state and local
officials working together to promote safety and health in the built
environment in Wisconsin - since 1915. A
conference was in
June 2007. Suggestions are welcome on what might be
useful
on the new WBSN Web page. |
More
Info: How to
obtain new commercial buildings and fire codes.
Increased
fire sprinkler protection and updated model codes included in
commercial building and fire prevention code changes
A
flexible expansion of fire sprinkler protections in apartment buildings
and an update to 2006 model building and fire codes are features of
Wisconsin commercial building and fire codes changes adopted November
7, 2007, by the state Department of Commerce.
After
several
years of development, with input from people throughout Wisconsin and
review by the legislature, changes to Comm 60-66, Commercial
Building Code, and Comm 14, Fire Prevention Code, are expected to go
into effect on March 1, 2008.
For new
construction, a
significant increase in the multifamily buildings provided with fire
sprinklers was modified by phasing in the new fire sprinkler
protection.
The phase-in will
provide sprinkler
installation in 2008 for new construction of multifamily buildings of
more than eight units, and will be lowered in 2011 to new multifamily
dwellings of three or more units. (See Section 68 in adopted draft
for phase-in.)
The
new rules will provide adjusted sprinkler coverage for three- and
four-unit dwellings
not served by municipal water systems or private community
wells.
Such buildings will be able to have systems conforming with NFPA 13D, a
standard for dwellings that allows lower water usage while protecting
lives from fire. (See Table 62.0903 and following and Section
74
in adopted
draft.)
Sprinkler
protection changes will not affect existing buildings or new one- and
two-family homes. Existing buildings coverted to residential
use
may require sprinkler protection.
Building
construction plan submittals made before the code change effective date
to the Department of Commerce or delegated plan review municipalities
will be reviewed under the old/current code.
Submittals
after the effective date will use the new code provisions, with a few
vital exceptions dealing with initiated, ongoing projects.
(See
Sections 29m, 30, and 30m in adopted draft
for extensions of review.)
New
printed copies of the Wisconsin commercial building and fire prevention
codes are expected to be available from state Document Sales in
February.
The 2006 versions of the
adopted national model codes can be obtained from the International
Code Council, http://www.iccsafe.org/
and the National Fire Protection Association, http://www.nfpa.org,
respectively.
There
will not be a new "Enrolled Code," which has been a printed combination
of the Wisconsin and model building codes. Instead, the Safety and
Buildings Division will put code insert pages on the Internet in early
2008. The pages will be designed to fit Wisconsin code
provisions
into the loose leaf versions of adopted model codes.
The adopted draft
of the code changes is available on
Commerce's Safety and Buildings Division Website.
People
wishing to follow the process of bringing the code changes into
fruition can become part of the S&B commercial buildings, fire
prevention, or fire protection email groups, http://commerce.wi.gov/SB/SB-DivEmailSignup.html.
The
same announcements that are sent to the email groups for interested
parties will be on the S&B commercial buildings, fire
prevention,
and fire protection Web pages,
http://commerce.wi.gov/SB/SB-CommercialBuildingsProgram.html;
http://commerce.wi.gov/SB/SB-FirePreventionProgram.html;
http://commerce.wi.gov/SB/SB-FireProtectionSystemsProgram.html.
How to obtain
Wisconsin Commercial Building and Fire Prevention
Codes changes in 2008
In
November,
2007, Wisconsin adopted changes to the Wisconsin Commercial Building
and Fire Prevention Codes. The changes are expected to go
into effect
March 1, 2008. The Commercial Building Code, now numbered
Comm 60-66,
adopts the 2006 editions of the International Building Code, the
International Energy Conservation Code, the International Mechanical
Code and the International Fuel Gas Code. The Fire Prevention
Code,
Comm 14, now adopts the 2006 edition of the National Fire Prevention
Code, NFPA 1.
The 2006 ICC codes and commentary can
currently be
purchased from www.iccsafe.org.
S&B recommends getting the 3-hole punched format.
The
Safety and Building Division intends to create
special 3-hole punched
pages intended to be inserted into the ICC codes. These pages
would
have the relevant Wisconsin sections and will be numbered for insertion
in the appropriate places in the ICC codes. More information
about
those pages should be available in late January. Watch the
S&B
WebSite Home Page
for the news or subscribe
to the commercial buildings email group. The 2006 NFPA 1 is
available from http://www.nfpa.org.
In
recent years, ICC and the Safety and Buildings Division have created
and printed an "Enrolled Code" containing both the adopted ICC code
sections and the Wisconsin Commercial Buildings Code sections.
There
will NOT be another Enrolled Code created to reflect the 2008 changes.
It
is expected that the regular format Wisconsin code version of Comm
60-65 and Comm 14 will be available in February 2008.
Wisconsin codes and update services can be purchased from
the Document Sales and Distribution
office of the Wisconsin Department of Administration. Document Sales
does offer an update service, for a fee, to provide copies of any state
code revisions during a subscribed period of time.
- You may telephone Document Sales, 800-362-7253, or 608-264-9419.
- You may purchase from the Document Sales office, 202 South
Thornton
Avenue, Madison, 7:45 a.m. and 4:30 p.m., Monday through Friday. Map of Document Sales location.
- Through the mail (with an order form) using a check,
money order, or
Visa or MasterCard credit card. The order form is available by calling
800-362-7253, or 608-264-9419, or from the
Document Sales Web site.
- By fax, 608-261-8150, using the order form along with a Visa or
MasterCard credit card.
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or 608-267-3606
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