SCHIFILITI ASSOCIATES

The NFPA 72 Technical Committee on Notification Appliances recognized that the effectiveness of the prescriptive and the performance based requirements for visible appliances had not been tested in large volume spaces. The Fire Protection Research Foundation was asked to consider sponsoring a project to address some of the committee's concerns [i]... A two-phased research initiative was proposed. This project represents only Phase 1. In Phase 1, testing was done in large warehouse stores to test the hypothesis that the current performance based approach provides sufficient direct alerting of occupants. The principle goal of this project was to test the effectiveness of strobe systems in large volume spaces designed and installed using the performance based approach of NFPA 72, 2002. A secondary goal was to understand if occupant alerting was the result of direct or indirect signaling. The main objective was to draft text for inclusion in the Annex of the 2007 edition of NFPA 72 that..

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