Design and Construction Handbook - Los Angeles World Airports

Guide Specification
a) Return system smoke detectors shall not be required where the entire space
served by the air distribution system is protected by a system of area
smoke detectors.
3) Smoke detectors shall not be required for fan units whose sole function is to
remove air from the inside of the building to the outside of the building.
4) Smoke and combination Smoke/Fire Dampers.
a) Duct smoke detectors not required for dampers where the entire space
served by the smoke damper is protected by a system of area smoke
detectors.
5) Remote LED’s w/ test stations shall be provided for all duct detectors located
above ceilings or out of sight.
e. Heat Detectors shall be added as follows:
1) Elevator Machine Rooms
2) Elevator Shafts if required per code.
3) Non-Residential Kitchens with smoke producing equipment.
4) Trash Rooms
f. Sprinkler tamper and waterflow switches shall be individually monitored as follows:
1) Provide one (1) supervisory module circuit for each sprinkler valve supervisory
and waterflow switch.
2) Tamper switches in fire pump room only may be grouped together as allowed
per coded.
g. Vesda LaserPlus Detector shall be provided per plans as required.
3. Notifications Appliances
a. All notification appliances shall be new.
b. Speakers shall be added as follow:
1) Shall be added throughout public and private spaces to achieve 15db above
ambient as needed to maintain intelligibility in all areas during paging and meet
current code requirements.
2) Elevator Cabs and Stairwells for Paging Only.
3) Elevator Lobbies
4) Corridors
5) Rooms and tenant spaces exceeding 1,000 square feet.
6) Public Restrooms for intelligibility during paging.
c. Strobes shall be added as follows:
1) Restrooms and Similar Uses: Public, Staff, locker rooms and dressing rooms.
2) Corridor System and Similar Uses: Public, Staff and Service Corridors,
Vestibules and Passageways.
FIRE DETECTION AND ALARM
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