March Adams provides fire protection engineering services that include risk assessment, hydraulic design, specifications, and detailed piping drawings. Our staff is proficient in the interpretation of NFPA codes and their compliance and insurance underwriters’ requirements.
The Lupton Fine Arts building was a renovation of an existing six-story building at the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. A new 75 hp, 1,000 gpm rated fire pump was installed in a newly built pump room for supplying a combination standpipe/sprinkler riser and three additional standpipes with hose connections up to an elevation of 75 ft. This project was designed as an NFPA 13, 14, 20, 72, and 101 compliant system. The fire protection group coordinated very closely with other engineering disciplines to produce a high-quality finished product.
This project was an addition made to the existing elementary school. March Adams designed a wet system with automatic sprinklers for light hazard occupancy of nearly 60,000 square feet. All fire protection design work was done in Revit. NFPA and IBC code requirements were met and the team coordinated with the state fire marshal’s office.
March Adams provided engineering design services for this community college which included an upgrade to their fire protection system for their server room. Due to the expensive servers and electrical equipment, a clean agent suppression system was used instead of a wet system. The system used NFPA 2001 and was designed to extinguish Class A, B, or C fires.
This project was a combination wet and dry system with automatic sprinklers for light hazard occupancy over approximately 12,710 square feet. and designed using Revit. This facility includes a fire protection design using applicable NFPA codes for this type of dwelling unit.