Looking Ahead to the 2027 ICC Codes
While the 2024 code cycle with International Code Council (ICC) has ended, NFSA’s Codes and Standards Team (CDT) meets monthly, and that team is already looking ahead to 2027.
Read More
Inspection and Testing of Fire Sprinklers in Healthcare Facilities
If you are involved in the Inspection, Testing and Maintenance (ITM) of water-based fire protection systems then you are most likely familiar with Joint Commission and Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS). This blog will hopefully shed some light on what is required and who is the Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) when it comes to these facilities.
Read More
Residential Fire Sprinklers Save Lives and Money: The 2023 NAHB-IBS Show
While sitting with my co-workers 69 feet above the world enjoying the lunch view and contemplating this year’s National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) - International Builders Show (IBS), one thing is very clear, the landscape of modern building materials is greater than ever before in our history.
Read More
Contractors and AHJs: Are They Oil and Water or Bacon and Eggs
As a sprinkler contractor, you have probably encountered the unreasonable authority having jurisdiction (AHJ). This is the code official who approves the plans as submitted, performs a few rough-in walk-throughs but then waits until the time of the final inspection to tell you that you need to add 120 sprinklers to closets or bathrooms and threatens to hold up the building’s certificate of occupancy until they are installed. Or maybe they like to ignore the adopted codes and standards and enforce their own “cuz code”: “cuz I said so”.
Read More