Minimum Floor Area for Commodity 1

[Vusal]

Dear NFPA Expers,
Is there any standards for floor area of Commodity (Tire Storage) if required sprinkler protection or not.
Thanks in advance.

 

[cdafd]

Do you have a building code or fire code, that you are designing to???

 

[Vusal]

Dear Cdafd,
Actually, we don't have any local standard in Asia that is why I am trying to comply with NFPA.

 

[cdafd]

How many sq ft are you trying to do?!

NFPA 1 you can look at chapter 25

Have not read it

You can go to NFPA and look at it for free

https://catalog.nfpa.org/NFPA-1-Fire-Code-P1593.aspx

 

[Vusal]

There floor area of Tire storage is 900 m2. At NFPA 1 I could not find any information for sprinkler requirement for commodities. Please help.

 

[cdafd]

Not a designer or engineer, but tires present a challenge

To many variables more than likely for an answer here

Storage hieght

How stored

Etc

 

[LCREP]

See NFPA 13, chapter 18 and NFPA 231D for sprinkler protection design info, also FM Data Sheet 8-3 they are free.

 

[SprinklerDesigner2]

Vusal,

How it was explained to me.

When it comes to sprinklers NFPA #13 is a standard and the standard assumes fire sprinkler are everywhere in a building, except where specifically addressed otherwise, regardless of building size.

According to NFPA #13 if you have a small 100 sq ft rubber tire warehouse it is to have sprinklers.

It is not the standards that tell us in what buildings fire sprinklers need to be installed that is the job of the Building Code. The Building Code is law while NFPA #13 is simply a standard that tells you how to do something when it is required but the standard does not say anything about where it is required by law.

NFPA does have a building code but it has to be adopted by law to be enforceable.