Florida Administrative Code › 61 - DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION › 61G15 - Board of Professional Engineers › Chapter 61G15-32 - RESPONSIBILITY RULES OF PROFESSIONAL ENGINEERS CONCERNING THE DESIGN OF FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEMS › Section 61G15-32.003 - Common Requirements to All Fire Protection System Engineering Documents

Current through Reg. 50, No. 138; July 16, 2024
(1) The Fire
				Protection System Engineering Documents shall provide the engineering
				requirements to be used in the preparation of the Fire Protection System Layout
				Documents and to indicate the nature and scope of the work, and to describe,
				detail, dimension, label and define the Fire Protection Components, System(s),
				materials, assemblies, equipment and its structural and utility support
				system(s), insofar as they involve the safeguarding of life, health or
				property.
(2) The Fire Protection
				System Engineering Documents shall specify the applicable requirements for the
				acceptance testing of the fire protection system and components, which shall be
				based upon applicable codes and standards, where available.
(3) The occupancy of the area or description
				of a specific hazard being protected by the Fire Protection System(s) shall be
				shown on the Fire Protection System Engineering Documents.
(4) The applicable code(s) and standard(s) to
				be used in the preparation of the Fire Protection System Layout Documents shall
				be shown on the Fire Protection System Engineering Documents. When codes and
				standards are not available or applicable, and said layout documents are to be
				based on engineering judgment, any reasons and assumptions made to develop the
				fire protection concept shall be identified on the Fire Protection System
				Engineering Documents.
(5)
				Structural support and structural openings required by the Fire Protection
				System shall be shown on the Fire Protection System Engineering Documents and
				shall be referenced on structural engineering documents.
(6) When Fire Protection Layout Documents
				contain material deviation from the Fire Protection System Engineering
				Documents, such Layout Documents are not compliant unless they are accompanied
				by revised Engineering Documents prepared, signed, dated and sealed by the
				Engineer of Record for the Fire Protection System.
(7) Requirements for activation control
				systems, sequence, operating parameters, interlocks, safety related devices,
				indicators and alarms, shall be shown on the Fire Protection System Engineering
				Documents, unless shown on other related documents.
(8) Any information deemed appropriate by the
				Engineer of Record to assist the authority having jurisdiction in understanding
				the owner's intended use and proposed protection of the building or facility
				and to provide sufficient direction to the installation contractor or other
				interested parties regarding the layout of the system(s), shall be included in
				the Fire Protection System Engineering Documents.
(9) Fire Protection System Engineering
				Documents shall additionally meet the requirements of rule
				61G15-30.003, F.A.C.,
				Engineering Documents.
Rulemaking Authority
					 471.008,
					 471.033(2) FS.
					 Law Implemented 471.005(7),
					 471.033(2)
					 FS.
New 5-19-93, Formerly 21H-32.003, Amended 4-2-00, 6-26-01,
					 3-26-09, 7-25-19.