Fire Safety Consulting: March 15th, 2012 Deadline Approaching for New ADA Standard

Posted by on Feb 29, 2012 in Fire Safety & Fire Code Consulting | 0 comments Just a reminder that the new ADA standard for fire alarm systems is set to take mandatory effect on March 15th, 2012. If you haven’t taken a look at the new standard yet, it is available for download from www.ada.gov. Meridian Integrations is excited to take note that finally we will be permitted to utilize earlier standards of NFPA 72 to establish strobe brilliance and spacing. However, we...
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Fire Safety Consulting: Many Clean Agent Suppression Concentrations Increasing

Posted by on Feb 10, 2012 in Fire Safety & Fire Code Consulting | 0 comments With the release of the new NFPA 2001 (2012 edition) there are now new rules for the calculation of the minimum effective design of clean agent suppression concentrations. These new rules mainly impact the minimum concentrations for class A fires and a higher minimum concentration for class C fires. Meridian’s research has revealed that not all manufacturers are recommending the same minimum...
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Fire Safety Consulting: Should HVAC Shut Down Upon Clean Agent System Discharge?

Posted by on Jan 24, 2012 in Fire Safety & Fire Code Consulting | 0 comments Meridian has been asked by several companies recently to answer some fire safety code questions and anytime good questions come up, we always like to share what we have found with everyone else. A fire safety question that has come up more than once over the last month is when a space protected with a clean agent suppression system is equipped with a self-circulating HVAC unit, does that unit have to shut down in the event of an agent discharge?
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New legislation requiring the use of CO detectors in schools.

Posted by on Aug 12, 2011 in Fire Safety & Fire Code Consulting | 0 comments Meridian is always looking ahead at upcoming changes in codes and legislation that can impact the fire protection and life safety industry.  We have already spent some time talking about upcoming provisions in the ADA standard.  Today, we would like to acknowledge the first legislation to be enacted on a statewide level to require newly constructed educational use group structures to be...
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New Accessibility Standards (Part 2 of 2)

Posted by on May 13, 2011 in Fire Safety & Fire Code Consulting | 0 comments Following up on our earlier entry about the new ADA standard to take effect in 2012, we’d like to talk about one of the drawbacks we see in this new standard.  First, to remind everyone the new standard is available for free download and distribution at www.ada.gov.  Again, the 2010 standard is set to take mandatory effect on March 15th, 2012, but if you want to use it now, you may. So what...
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