Fire Pump Room Requirements: CFC and CBC Section 913
"Fire Pump Room Requirements: CFC and CBC Section 913" is lesson 5 of 6 in the Fire Protection (C-16) Learning Hub. It opens with "What the California Code Prints About Fire Pumps" and works through 5 short steps, then a worked example you can check yourself against.
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Steps in this lesson
What the California Code Prints About Fire Pumps
Separate the Pump Room (CBC 913.2.1)
Size, Access, Sign, Temperature and Light
Circuits and Fuel
Supervise the Valves and Keep Records
The worked example in the course applies this lesson to a realistic job in 5 steps, from "Room separation" through "Valve supervision".
What you'll be able to do
Explain the main idea of "Fire Pump Room Requirements: CFC and CBC Section 913" in plain language you can use on the exam.
Apply this step with confidence: "Size, Access, Sign, Temperature and Light".
Apply this step with confidence: "Circuits and Fuel".
Apply this step with confidence: "Supervise the Valves and Keep Records".
Test yourself on the worked example and the quick-check quiz inside the classroom.
The diagram for this lesson, exactly as it appears in the Learning Hub.
The first steps of this lesson
Step 1: What the California Code Prints About Fire Pumps
CFC 913.1 and CBC 913.1 require fire pumps to be installed under Section 913 and NFPA 20, except pumps for 903.3.1.3 (NFPA 13D) systems or CRC-covered residential systems. Acceptance testing is done as NFPA 20 requires (913.5.1). The pump rating curve, churn pressure and test percentages live in NFPA 20, which is not reprinted in the California books, so this lesson covers what California itself prints: the room, the circuits, the fuel, the valve supervision and the records. The fire pump, driver and controller must be protected against interruption of service by explosion, fire, flood, earthquake, rodents, insects, windstorm, freezing, vandalism and other adverse conditions (913.2).
Step 2: Separate the Pump Room (CBC 913.2.1)
Fire pumps are located in rooms separated from all other areas of the building by 2-hour fire barriers built per CBC Section 707 or 2-hour horizontal assemblies per Section 711, or both. Exception 1 allows 1-hour fire barriers and horizontal assemblies in buildings that are not high-rise and are equipped throughout with a sprinkler system under 903.3.1.1 or 903.3.1.2. Exception 2 waives separation for pumps physically separated in accordance with NFPA 20. CFC 913.2.1 sends you to this CBC section.
The remaining 3 steps, the worked example and the quiz are in the course. This is a preview. The full lesson, with the step-by-step explanations, a worked example and a quick-check quiz, is inside the classroom.
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