Automatic Sprinklers Versus Direct Applied Fire Protection: Can There Be Trade-offs?

GT Anderson

doi:10.1520/STP31899S

SYMPOSIA PAPER Published: 01 January 1983

STP31899S

Automatic Sprinklers Versus Direct Applied Fire Protection: Can There Be Trade-offs?

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Trading off one form of fire protection for another is becoming a common place occurrence in construction today. On both a national and local level, building codes are allowing direct substitution of one form of fire protection for another. The objective of this paper is to question the justification of this concept as it applies to automatic sprinklers versus direct applied structural steel fire protection. It is important to keep in mind that structural steel fire protection is intended to maintain structural integrity in a fire while automatic sprinklers are a mechanical extinguishing system. The end result is that both systems complement each other and were never intended to replace one another.

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Anderson, GT

W. R. Grace and Company, Cambridge, Mass.

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Developed by Committee: E06

Pages: 130–139

DOI: 10.1520/STP31899S

ISBN-EB: 978-0-8031-4890-1

ISBN-13: 978-0-8031-0214-9

Automatic Sprinklers Versus Direct Applied Fire Protection: Can There Be Trade-offs?

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