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    Nfpa 3: Standard For Commissioning and Integrated Testing of Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems

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    NFPA 3

    Standard for Commissioning


    and Integrated Testing of
    Fire Protection and Life
    Safety Systems

    Copyright © 2008 National Fire Protection Association, All Rights Reserved


    A Balanced Approach
     Technical Committee Representatives
    Include:
    • Enforcers (AHJ’s)
    • Insurance
    • Installers/Maintainers
    • Manufacturers
    • Research Technologies
    • Special Experts/Consultants
    • Users of the Standards
    A Balanced Approach
    NFSA AFAA NAFED AFSA
    Lifespan Harvard University
    UL, State Farm, XL GAP, Liberty Mutual, FM Global
    USAF US Navy US GSA NIBS
    RJA Schirmer Hughes Fisher
    Viking TYCO Bechtel Fike
    Ftech (Mexico) AXA (France)
    Defence Construction (Canada)
    Clark County Carmel Boulder Reno
    Scope
     To provide the minimum requirements
    for procedures, methods, and
    documentation for commissioning and
    the integrated testing of active and
    passive fire protection and life safety
    systems
    Commissioning
     A systematic process that provides
    documented confirmation that specific
    and interconnected fire protection and
    life safety systems function according
    to the intended design criteria and
    satisfy the owner’s operational needs,
    including compliance requirements of
    any applicable laws, regulations, codes
    and stanards.
    Integrated Testing
     Assessment of fire protection and life
    safety systems function and operation
    using direct observation or other
    monitoring methods to determine the
    correct interaction and coordination of
    multiple systems in conformance with
    owner’s project requirements and the
    basis of design.
    Fire Protection Systems
     Systems, devices, and equipment used
    to detect a fire and its by-products,
    actuate an alarm, or suppress or
    control a fire and its by-products, or
    any combination thereof.
    Sprinkler System Riser
     Backflow Preventer
     Indicating Valves
     Alarm Supervision
     Flow Switches
    Sprinkler System Riser
     Valves Supervised
     Electronic Flow Switch
    Zone Control Valve
     Electronic Alarms
     What’s Missing???
    Fire Pump
    Room
    cannot be
    used for
    ANYTHING
    else
    Can you spot the Problem???
    Hotel in Dubai Aluminum Louvered Ceilings
     Detectors?
     Sprinklers?
     Notification?
    Foam System in Aircraft Hangars
    Peeling Paint in a Water Tank

    15
    Sprinkler System Water Tank

    16
    Check Valve Installed Backwards

    Module 0-17
    Life Safety System
     Those systems that enhance or
    facilitate evacuation, smoke control,
    compartmentalization, and/or
    isolation.
    Life Safety Issues?
    Integrated System
     A combination or group of systems
    either interconnected or separate, but
    required to operate together as a
    whole to achieve the fire protection
    and life safety systems
    Commissioning Team
     Owner
     Commissioning Authority
     FCxA
     Installation Contractors
     Manufacturer Representatives
    Commissioning Team
     RDP’s
     Construction Manager/ General
    Contractor
     Owner’s Technical Support Personnel
     Insurance Representative
     Third Party Test Entity
     Facility Manager/Operations Personnel
     AHJ
    Periodic Integrated Testing
     Fire protection and life safety systems
    that have been commissioned upon
    installation in accordance with the
    commissioning process of this standard
    shall have integrated testing in
    accordance with the commissioning
    plan.
    Questions?

    Timothy Hawthorne
    [email protected]
    617-984-7259
    Staff Liaison for NFPA 3

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