BLD2011-0816 Premier TI 21401 72 W.doc
MEMORANDUM
Date:November 13, 2011
To:Scott Shanks scott@fwdsinc.com
From:John Westfall, Fire Marshal jwestfall@firedistrict1.org
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Subject:Bld 2011-0815 Premier TI 21401 72 Ave W
The Fire Department provides the following comments and corrections in accordance with the 2009
International Fire Code and Edmonds Community Development Code Title 19:
1. A0.1 Deferred Submittals:
a. Halon or clean agent suppression systems for DATA STORAGE requires a permit.
b. Add Fire Protection Footprint (below)
c. Add tenant Fire Safety Plan (LSC 20.7.2.2)
2. A0.2
a. General Notes #1: add “NFPA 101 LIFE SAFETY CODE” & edition
b. Floor plan legend: callout AMBULATORY HEALTHCARE area for tenant.
3. A0.2 & A9.1 Exit access must be provided and maintained from all areas. Door schedule
indicates security locks into ASC areas; e.g. door A117A. Corridor and egress doors must be
free to operate in path of egress without special knowledge or effort. IFC 1014
4. A0.2 Area for OUTPATIENT TREATMENT is 10,684 s.f. If this is AHC area (in excess of
10,000 s.f. per IBC 422.3):
a. call out existing 1 hr wall as “smoke barrier” required to provide two smoke compartments
(IBC 422.3)
b. specify, and show calculations for REFUGE AREA (IBC 422.4), and
c. provide independent egress from each smoke compartment without passing through
adjacent tenant spaces (IBC 422.5)
5. A2.1 Is one hour fire wall across floor plan intended to be smoke barrier for AHC purposes?
6. A2.5 It appears Elev #1 gives no opening through 1 hr fire wall to Corridor A303?
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7. Does tenant intend to install halon or clean agent suppression systems for 2 floor DATA
STORAGE space?
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8. 1 floor medical gas room is not rated and assumed to be designed, protected, and exhausted
as a one-hour interior room (IFC 3006.2.2).
City of Edmonds Office of Fire Marshal
9. Information for tenant: Medical gas room storage requires annual renewable operational fire
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permit over 504 ft quantity. No other action required.
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10. Medical gas maximum allowable quantity for storage and piped use of oxidizer gases is 3000 ft
given sprinkler allowance IFC 2703.1. Callout medical gas system piping capacity and storage
volume to not exceed this limit.
11. MRI installation may impact 800 MHz emergency responder radio coverage. Acceptable radio
signal strength is required in 95 percent for each floor @ -95 dBm into, and -100 dBm out of the
building. Indicate or specify how this will be accomplished with regard to operating MRI (IFC
510).
12. A2.1, A2.3 & A9.1: Doors 300A, A331B, A306A appear to impede business flow in closed
position. Call out automatic closing fire doors, installed per IBC 715.4.8.2.
Attachment: Fire Protection Footprint
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