Fire Sprinkler System

SECTION 10.2.6.8 STANDPIPES

A. The design, installation and maintenance of standpipe systems shall be in accordance with NFPA 14,
Standard for the Installation of Standpipe, Private Hydrant and Hose Systems.

B. Wet Standpipes

Wet standpipe system extending from the cellar or basement into the topmost storey shall be required
in the following:

1. Assembly occupancies with an occupant load exceeding one thousand (1,000);

2. Educational, healthcare and detention and correctional, business and mercantile, industrial, and
hotels and apartments occupancies, four or more storeys in height, and

3. Hazardous storage and business and mercantile occupancies having a floor area

exceeding one thousand eight hundred sixty square meters (1,860 m²) per floor.

The following assembly occupancies with occupant load of one hundred fifty (150)

persons or more shall be protected throughout by an approved, supervised automatic

sprinkler system:

a. bars with live entertainment;

b. dance halls;

c. discotheques; and

d. assembly occupancies with festival seating.

Buildings containing assembly occupancies with occupant load of more than three hundred (300)
persons shall be protected by an approved, supervised automatic

sprinkler system:

a. throughout the storey containing the assembly occupancy;

b. throughout all storeys below the storey containing the assembly occupancy;

c. in case of an assembly occupancy located below the level of exit discharge,

throughout all storeys intervening between that storey and the level of exit discharge,

including the level of exit discharge.

3. The provisions of paras 1 and 2 above shall not apply to assembly occupancy with all sides open and
places of worship at the level of exit discharge with sufficient means of egress.