Fire Protection (Finding Your Piece of the Rock)
Fire Sprinklers in Condos. The host for this show is Abe Lee. The guest is James Merrell.
Jim Merrell discusses the 2017 Marco Polo Fire – tragic loss of four lives, over 200 units destroyed in a 572-unit building, over $107 million dollars in losses leading to Honolulu County requiring approximately 350 existing residential buildings to perform a Fire Life Safety Evaluation (FLSE) by a certain date. HFD wanted every building to be required to install Fire Sprinklers, so the FLSE is a compromise situation.
FLSE has been around for a while. It is an engineering study that identifies and quantifies the safety of the building in a fire for occupants as well as for FIRE FIGHTERS.
Installing fire sprinklers in an existing building is very expensive. The Marco Polo did it to a tune of $5,000,000 dollars, that’s $8,741 average per unit.
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