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Permit Number:	F16-1312
Permit Type:	Commercial Trade Permit - Alteration Fire
Address:	2801 DEBARR RD Anchorage
Location:
Work Description:	New Fire Pump - BWP FOLDER AND PLANS DESTROYED- WAITING FOR REFUND PAPERWORK FROM TAYLOR FIRE -GJS 8/11/2017
Status:	Cancelled
Project Name:	ALASKA REGIONAL HOSPITAL
Review Type:	Fire System
Result:	Correction
Result Date:	12/8/2016 3:32:00 PM

Comments:

	Code Section	Review Comment	Status
1	AMC 23.10.104.9	Deferral of any submitted items shall have the prior approval of the building official. The registered design professional in responsible charge shall list the deferred submittals on the construction documents for review.
Electrical permit required for fire pump controller installation. Submit deferred submittal doccumentation
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Electrical permit required for fire pump controller installation
3	AMC 23.10.104.8.1	Construction documents shall be of sufficient clarity to indicate the location, nature, and extent of the work proposed and show in detail that the work will conform to the provisions of this code.
Provide information on current fire pump and controller that installed at Alaska Regional Hospital
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Provide fire sprinkler hydraulic calculations for all remote areas served by the replacement fire pump. This is required since AWWU water system has lower pressures than when the original fire pump was installed.
5	AMC 23.10.104.9	Deferral of any submitted items shall have the prior approval of the building official. The registered design professional in responsible charge shall list the deferred submittals on the construction documents for review.
Structural plan review required for the mounting of the inline vertical fire pump. Provide plans by a licensed engineer. Submit deferred submittal
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Plans show in comments that the existing fire pump controller is being reused, but in the submitted documentation there is a new fire pump controller listed. What is being installed?
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Current fire pump is a horizontal split case pump. The new fire pump is a inline vertical fire pump. This is not a direct replacement fire pump and must meet all 2012 IBC/IFC code requirements to include the 2010 NFPA 13 and 20 requirements for the upgrade of the fire pump system
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Per Alaska Regional Hospital Chief Engineer JJ there is not secondary water from tank. Please update the drawing or provide location and size of fire water tank that is supplying the fire pump.
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Backflow listed on the plans is a 4 inch Ames 2000SS double check. Back flow that is currently installed is a Reduced Pressure backflow, is this being changed out to an AMES Backflow?
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Provide pipe sizes and take out dimension of all piping in the fire pump room
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Provide a room layout of all the equipment to include piping
12	AMC 23.10.104.8.1	Construction documents shall be of sufficient clarity to indicate the location, nature, and extent of the work proposed and show in detail that the work will conform to the provisions of this code.
Fire alarm permit required to monitor fire pump operations - submit deferred submittal
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All permits must be permitted under a C permit. Who is the General contractor that will be responsible for the obtaining the C Permit?
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Provide automatic relief valve. 2010 NFPA 20 section 4.11.1
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The suction piping shall be sized such that, with the pump operating at 150 percent of rated capacity, the velocity in that portion of the suction pipe located within 10 pipe diameters upstream of the pump suction flange does not exceed 15 feet/sec. 2010 NFPA 20 section 4.14.3.3
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Provide 6 inch suction pipe. 2010 NFPA 20 section 4.14.3.4 The size of that portion of the suction pipe located within 10 pipe diameters upstream of the pump suction flange shall be not lees than that specified in Section 4.26.
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Provide eccentric reducer on fire pump suction 2010 NFPA 20 section 4.14.6.4 Where the suction pipe and pump suction flange are not the safe size they shall be connected with an eccentric tapered reducer or increaser installed in such a way as to avoid air pockets.
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if there is a water tank as a secondary water supply, is there a Vortex Plate as requried by 2010 NFPA 20 section 4.14.10?
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Provide 6 inch discharge piping from the fire pump. 2010 NFPA 20 section 4.15.5 the size of pump discharge pipe and fittings shall not be less than that given in Section 4.26.
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Backflow prevention device must be 10 pipe diameters from the pump suction flange. 2010 NFPA 20 section 4.27.3
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No valve other than a listed OS&Y valve shall be installed in the suction pipe within 50 feet of the pump suction flange. 2010 NFPA 20 section 4.27.3.1, 4.15.5.2
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Provide earthquake protection per 2010 NFPA 20 section 4.28.3
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Provide detail and drawing of pressure sensing lines per 2010 NFPA 20 section 4.30
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Provide electrical drawings that meet the requirements of 2010 NFPA 20 chapter 9 and 10 for review by the MOA Electrical plan reviewer.
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Show what fire alarm connections are going to the fire pump controllers

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