[Nhcoll-l] Fire Marshall Regulations

[Richard Rabeler]

Paul:

Barry is here at the University of Michigan here at Ann Arbor.

We have a large retention "pond" behind our building - I believe it was
designed to hold all of the alcohol + a certain # of minutes of sprinkler
flow.   Design limitations including placing the facility along, or close
to, an outside wall of the building, installing a new fire pump to more
adequately service the fluid area, and dividing the space into multiple
rooms to restrict the amount of alcohol in a given room were all included
in our project.

Rich Rabeler, MICH

On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 10:44 AM, Callomon,Paul <prc44 at drexel.edu> wrote:

> Hi Barry,
>
> Can you tell us which institution you work for, and which city and state?
>
> Thanks,
>
>
> *Paul Callomon*
> *Collection Manager, Malacology, Invertebrate Paleontology and General
> Invertebrates*
> ------------------------------
> *Academy of Natural Sciences of Drexel University, Philadelphia*
> *callomon at ansp.org <callomon at ansp.org> Tel 215-405-5096 <215-405-5096> -
> Fax 215-299-1170 <215-299-1170>*
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu [
> nhcoll-l-bounces at mailman.yale.edu] on behalf of Barry OConnor [
> bmoc at umich.edu]
> *Sent:* Thursday, June 30, 2016 10:38 AM
> *To:* Bentley, Andrew Charles
> *Cc:* nhcoll-l at mailman.yale.edu
> *Subject:* Re: [Nhcoll-l] Fire Marshall Regulations
>
> When our new collections facility was built a few years ago (converted
> warehouse), a fluid retention space was required.
> All the best! - Barry
>
> On Thu, Jun 30, 2016 at 9:32 AM, Bentley, Andrew Charles <abentley at ku.edu>
> wrote:
>
>> Janet
>>
>>
>>
>> In working closely with our fire marshal we were able to convince him
>> that:
>>
>>
>>
>> a)      Such a scenario was highly unlikely given all the other
>> mitigating measures we had in place and,
>>
>> b)      That were such a scenario to occur the alcohol would be so
>> dilute given the amount of water expelled by our fire measures as to not
>> warrant any such measures and the larger problems we would face if such a
>> situation were to occur.
>>
>>
>>
>> As such we do not have any such retention pond and our door drains drain
>> directly into the sewer system.
>>
>>
>>
>> Yes, our HVAC system has inlets at roof level and outtakes at floor level
>> at various locations on every floor.
>>
>>
>>
>> Andy
>>
>>
>>
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>> Andy Bentley
>>
>>
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