Make Up a System (2.0)

Fire Alarms
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The wording is somewhat vague, but my understanding is that the requirement does not have such a narrow scope. It seems to me that the words “living spaces” were included to indicate that the requirement does not apply to a unit’s bedrooms. The definition of “suite” clears things up a bit as it refers to a “single tenancy”:

Suite means a single room or series of rooms of complementary use, operated under a single tenancy, and includes

(a) dwelling units,

(b) individual guest rooms in motels, hotels, boarding houses, rooming houses and dormitories, and

(c) individual stores and individual or complementary rooms for business and personal services occupancies.

Without exception, every new apartment or condo unit I’ve seen in my area—from tiny studios to multimillion-dollar penthouses—since this requirement was enacted had this type of configuration, with an A/V device in the kitchen/living area and an audible-only device in each bedroom and den (if there is a separate bedroom). In fact, a while back, I happened to be walking by newer a high-rise condo building in my neighbourhood while the system was in alarm; it’s quite impressive to see the strobes flashing on all floors at night.

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Quail Run Elementary School: Built in 1987/1988.

Panel: Cerberus Pyrotronics System 3, located in front office.

Automatic detection: System Sensor i3-2WB smoke detectors in classrooms and library, Edwards 281-C heat detectors in Kitchen. System Sensor 2400 smoke detectors in hallways.

Pull Stations:

Cerberus Pyrotronics MS-5s, by the door between the two large kindergarten classrooms, by the front doors, 1st/2nd grade doors, 5th/sped doors, and two in gym.

Siemens MSI-20B, by the door in the small kindergarten classroom.

Firelite BG12, by 3rd/4th grade doors.

Notification appliances:

Wheelock 7002Ts, the main alarms, one in one of the large kindergarten classrooms, two in cafeteria, two in gym, one in library, one in Sped hallway, one in first grade hallway, two in 4th/5th grade hallway, one in 2nd/3rd grade hallway (second one replaced).

Cerberus Pyrotronics MTL horn strobe, one in 2nd/3rd grade hallway (replaced 7002T in mid-late 1990s).

Cerberus Pyrotronics HES-STW horn strobe, one in kitchen (replaced 7002T in mid 1990s)

Siemens UNH-S17 horn strobe, one in other large kindergarten classroom (replaced 7002T in late 1990s).

Wheelock WST strobes, in office, art and music rooms, library workrooms, office right off the gym, most 1st-5th grade and sped classrooms, and all bathrooms, except kindergarten bathrooms and those right off of cafeteria.

Siemens U-S17 Strobes, one in small kindergarten classroom, one in each kindergarten bathroom, and one in each bathroom right off of cafeteria.

Wheelock RSS Strobe, one in one first grade classroom, replaced defective WST in early-mid 2000s.

System sensor P2R horn strobe, one in one 3rd grade classroom, replaced defective WST in summer 2011.

All alarms were set to continuous, coded by the panel, the P2R self coded to temporal.

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I love this one! It reminds me a lot of the system that was at my district’s old high school. That was a Pyrotronics XL3 addressable system from 1986. The main difference is that Simplex took it over in 2007 and upgraded to an addressable 4100U system, but they kept the old notification appliances. In more recent years, some failing devices were been replaced with TrueAlert horn/strobes (similar to the P2Rs in your post). Sadly, that building is now gone.

1068

This system was the actual system at my elementary school from Kindergarten to 3rd grade (Fall 2011-Spring 2015), the RSS was in my first grade classroom, and P2R in my 3rd grade classroom. In 2015 the system was replaced.

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1069

This system is for a homeless shelter/supportive housing campus expansion, consisting of 3 buildings that are being treated as an independent wing of the campus:

  • A two-story Type V-A I-1/B containing 46 SROs and 36 apartments, ringing a central courtyard
  • A five-story Type V-A over I-A R-2/B containing 96 supportive apartments, including a H/V unit
  • And a single story R-1/A-2 addition to an existing, 96 unit, three-story Type V R-1 SRO building, containing both shared bunk/dayroom spaces and assembly/dining facilities, and creating a second outdoor courtyard space. The existing R-1 is being modernized as part of this work.

All three buildings receive natural gas service. The R-1 and I-1 have hydraulic elevators in them, while the R-2 uses a MRL instead, and the R-2/B building and R-1/A-2 wing have storm shelter spaces. There is also a 40-50kW Cummins propane generator on the campus, fueled from a buried propane tank.

Fire Alarm & Life Safety

Control & Reporting

The panels in each building are Gamewell-FCI S3s with pairs of SLC95-PM Apollo SLC cards in them, as well as RPT-E3-UTP network cards with FML-E3 transceivers to interconnect them via a shared fiber ring. Each building has a LCD-E3 annunciator in it, and there are CLSS Gateways in the I-1 and R-1/A-2 buildings, as these two buildings land the incoming business internet connections.

The R-2 building, on the other hand, uses a Napco StarLink MAX 2 to provide a local communicator that can monitor the fixed-function relays on the S3 as well as a pair of SLC relay outputs for fuel gas and CO conditions. The R-1/A-2 also has a cellular communicator, but in the CLSS Gateway, to provide an independent path for the networked system.

Detection

The SLCs are wired in Class X using the built-in isolation support of the Apollo Soteria UL modules used (as they are XP95A backwards compatible) along with isolator bases and explicit isolators for the XP95A detectors required in this system:

  • The in-unit (I-1 and R-1) and open-area detectors used (corridor in the I-1 & R-1, releasing on the R-1/A-2 fire door and laundry room doors, recall in the R-2) are SA5050-350s with 45681-284UL bases for non-sounder detectors, save for the machine room smoke detectors, which are System Sensor 4WTR-Bs supplied from panel resettable power and monitored by a conventional zone input
  • Duct detectors are pairs of SL-2000s on indoor AHUs and pairs of RT-3000s on outdoor AHUs/RTUs, powered from fire panel nonresettable power and monitored using a single monitor module input and test/reset relay output per AHU/RTU
  • CO detectors in mechanical rooms & the main kitchen are CO1224TRs on monitor module inputs
  • Fuel gas detectors in mechanical rooms & the main kitchen are Macurco GD-2Bs
  • Pull stations (at reception locations, R-2 office wing back exit, and in riser rooms) are Gamewell-FCI MS-7s on SA4705-600 minimons
  • Fire extinguishers in the buildings are monitored using dry-contacts of some sort (to detect a removed extinguisher) on SA4705-600 minimons
  • Point modules are SA4705-700 singles and -720 duals, used for hood monitoring, extra CO/FG and sprinkler monitor points, and AoR system monitoring
  • I/O modules are SA4705-703s (used for CO/fuelgas monitoring & relaying in the R-2/B and sprinkler monitor & door release or gas shutoff, duct detector, and recall/shunt trip monitoring everywhere)
  • NAC modules for dwelling & sleeping units are SA4705-706s.
  • Each sounder base detector is paired with a 55000-750USA isolator in a 45681-211USA base to provide Class X operation (since we aren’t using the Soteria detectors here)
  • And there’s a SA4705-701 relay module substituting for a -703 in the R-2 as it doesn’t need a shunt trip function.

Notification

Sleeping area notification for the I-1 and R-1 consists of Eluxa remote strobes (wall mounted in individual sleeping spaces, ceiling and wall mounted in the main bunkroom) along with SA5300-805 LF sounder bases. Other areas use Eluxa multitone hornstrobes set for temporal horn (for 4-wire support) along with Eluxa remote strobes in restrooms, ceiling mounted Eluxa N4X strobes in the shower area, and Eluxa N4X multitone hornstrobes in the walk-ins in the R-1.

The R-2 uses Eluxa multitone hornstrobes set for temporal horn in shared spaces and Eluxa low-frequency sounders within the units. The H/V unit has Eluxa LF sounders paired with System Sensor LED L-series strobes in L-series expanders, with the expanders running off MP120KL supplies powered from smoke alarm switched 120VAC.

NAC power is supplied using:

  • Honeywell FL-PS10s with ZNAC-PS cards, 2 per floor (1 for each apartment wing floor and 1 on each floor shared between the office and SRO wings) in the I-1/B,
  • Honeywell FL-PS6s with ZNAC-PS cards, 1 per floor (with the ground floor extender shared between the office and apartment portions of the building) in the R-2/B,
  • Honeywell FL-PS10s with ZNAC-PS cards, 1 per floor in the R-1 old wing,
  • and another Honeywell FL-PS10 with a ZNAC-PS card in the new R-1/A-2 wing,

with all NAC extenders on paired control circuits from the S3. The outdoor sprinkler alarms are Potter SASH-120s.

Suppression and Compartmentalization

Besides the sprinkler systems, the 2 smaller I-1 kitchens and 3 existing R-1 kitchens are fitted with Guardian-SSI 1384B mechanical UL300A hood systems monitored by the FACP, while the 2 larger I-1 kitchens and the main kitchen in the R-1/A-2 are fitted with full UL300 hood systems.

Laundry room and common area fire doors are held open using Potter/RSG DH24120 electromagnets, with recessed type magnets used whenever practical.

Apartment Life Safety

The R-2 apartments use Gentex PL1Ks for in-unit alarming, with a Gentex SCRR in the H/V unit to fire the expansion strobes if either smoke or CO is detected. (Fuel gas can’t be relayed out of the PLACE units, but this isn’t a big deal because gas odorants serve as a backup for the audible notification in this case.)

Emergency Lighting

Emergency lighting inside the buildings is supplied using Keystone KT-RDLED24PS-6A-9CSF-VDIM-EM4 recessed wafers paired with Assurance ALCR-D4 control relays to force them ON in case of a power outage. Visitors and residents are directed to exits using Mircom EL-7008MA edge-lit “Running Man” signs, and the landings outside are illuminated using Atlas WSPS12LED3K wallpack fixtures sharing a single Iota IIS-125-SM inverter in each building, except for the R-1/A-2’s courtyard, which has its landings illuminated by RAB SLIMXXSY wallpacks instead.

Storm Shelter Hardware

The storm shelters are protected by Steelcraft Paladin PW14 doors fitted with Ives 5BB1HWNRP hinges & LCN 4040XP closers mounted on the non-threat side. Storm shelter doors that face to the interior of the building in question (both of them in the R-2, as well as the main door to the bunkroom in the R-1/A-2) use Von Duprin WS-T-9957-2SI devices, while doors that lead directly to the outside are fitted with Von Duprin EPT-2 transfers, Securitech 84T11-HVL-IHD-CX multipoint exit devices, and Securitron MSS-1C door contacts.

Walk-in Panic & Supervisory

The 3 walk-in coolers/freezers in the main R-1/A-2 kitchen have Magnasphere MK3045CT panic switches with glow-in-the-dark decals applied to them connected to a monitor zone on the FACP. This zone is paired with a supervisory zone that monitors the common output from a Winland EA400-24 that monitors the temperature of the walkins and is powered from FACP nonresettable power. There are also GRI 290 door prop alarms on the walkin doors, with the same Magnasphere contacts as are used on the access controlled doors.

Vertical Transportation

Elevator Hardware

While the R-1/A-2’s existing elevator is left as-is, with the only changes being to the interface logic for recall and shunt trip monitoring, the R-2 and I-1 both need new elevator packages.

In the case of the R-2, the resulting elevator is fairly simple: it’s a 3500lb MEI MRL using a Hollister-Whitney gearless machine, a Pixel MRL controller with a top jamb ITP, and a swingout hatch in the top of the machine space for access to the machine space smoke detector. A through-the-wall A/C unit provides machine space HVAC on the cheap.

The I-1 also has a 3500lb elevator, but this one is a more traditional holeless hydraulic type with a Motion Control Engineering controller and a ground floor machine room, protected by sprinklers and a full shunt trip circuit.

Shunt Trips

The I-1 elevator receives a fully supervised shunt trip circuit using:

  • A Siemens shunt trip elevator switch with a 120V coil input and control transformer
  • A GBPC2506 rectifier bridge
  • A RIBMN2401D DPDT relay to serve as the reversing relay in this circuit
  • A Fire Detection Devices CF-135-2CO heat detector
  • a P2500 rectifier diode shunted by a 2.2kOhm, 1/2W resistor
  • and a Macromatic CAP10AD62 current sensing relay in a Macromatic 70170-D socket, with all controls set to their minimum values.

The DPDT relay is used to reverse the 120VFWR supply, which is normally trickled through the resistor with the diode reverse biased to establish a ~10mA supervision current through the shunt trip coil and the 5-100mA sense terminals on the CAP10AD62, and the NC contacts on the heat detector powering the reversing relay’s coil to establish the normal position of the reversing relay. The IDC has the NO/held-closed contacts on the sense relay in series with its EOLR, with the heat detector’s NO contacts shunting the circuit to indicate a fire in the machine room.

Security

The central video and access control system uses Linux servers (one each in the I-1/B and R-1/A-2) running CredoID for the PACS headend and either NX Witness or Wisenet WAVE for a VMS. The cameras are all Hanwha units save for a single DW InterCam on the R-1/A-2’s dock door.

The R-1/A-2 also has standalone metal detectors at both entrances, handled by security staff.

Physical Access Control

The main PACS cabinets are Trove2MV2s with an AL1024ULXB2, 2 PDS16CBs stacked, a MR16IN stacked atop a MP4502 controller, and up to 8 MR52 double-door cards in them, as well as a Teltonika TSW-101 switch to supply PoE to the intercom system. The SRO floors also have an AL600ULXPD16CB with a second PD16WCB fitted to provide hard power to the networked locks.

The access controlled doors use Securitron CEPT power transfers and LCN 4040XP closers, except for individual SRO unit doors, which use Command Access CDL door loops and Sargent 268 closers instead, and also have Magnasphere MSS-10CT contacts providing door position. Access control card reading for staff access is done using PKOC-capable INID ISO XS readers, running directly on 24VDC.

There are also Norton Rixson low energy operators on one door of each bank of main entrance doors in the R-1/A-2 building. Door locking and unlocking is done using the following hardware:

  • Schlage LV9092EUs with Marray RediRex kits on interior access controlled doors to spaces (non-panic)
  • Sargent RX-8271-BHLs with Sargent 268 closers and McKinney HTA786 hinges on the visitation room doors
  • and Von Duprin XP99NL-F rim fire exit devices with SDC LR100VDK ELR kits and SDC LRVD1R REX kits on them for access controlled cross-corridor, classroom, entrance/exit, & assembly space doors. The low energy doors to the A-2 wing also have SDC LRVD1L latchbolt monitors on them to prevent the operator from trying to open a latched door.

Individual SRO doors also receive keycard access control, using Sargent IN120-8276-BHL-91 locksets on their own subnet/VLAN within the WLAN system and powered from the auxiliary 24V access control supply.

The dock door in the A-2 is handled using a locally operated Zap 825 Series 3 opener with a Fraba Optoeye for full entrapment protection and a pair of Magnasphere MSS-106S overhead door contacts.

Security Intercom

Intercom access is provided to all three buildings, using Bas-IP AV-08FBIL single button intercoms for the R-1, I-1, and secondary R-2 entrance, along with a Bas-IP AA-07FBI intercom at the primary R-2 entrance. This permits face, mobile, or card access for residents, along with temporary PINs or QR codes.

The intercoms are linked to the PACS using SH-42 remote relays in the access control cabinets. The R-2 H/V unit uses a Netsys NL-230FKIT to convert twisted pair Ethernet to LRE for the H/V unit intercom indoor unit, a Bas-IP AU-04LAF. This unit is also linked to a set of STI SA5600-G strobes on cutoff switches and a doorbell button to provide an audiovisual doorbell and call annunciator using its relay contact.

There are also serving windows with built-in intercoms at each reception area and the R-1/A-2 clinic.

Holdup/Panic

Security holdup functionality at reception desks, in the clinic meds room, and in the I-1 intake room is provided using an Axis D3110 Mk II interface in each of the buildings in question to link Potter HUB-T holdup buttons to the video system. There is also a wallplate microphone in each of the spaces in question, save for the meds room, to provide triggered listen-in functionality.

Mechanical Door Hardware

The non-electronic doors in the residential spaces use anti-ligature hardware with Sargent 268 closers, McKinney HTA786 hinges, and the following locksets:

  • Sargent 8225-BHLs on apartment entrances
  • Corbin ML2069-BLSSes w/ ML190-V50 indicators on SRO restroom doors
  • Sargent 8238-BHLs w/ V60-SA190 indicators on laundry room doors (to permit locking out a faulty laundry room)
  • Schlage L463xOS-LOCxSL1 classroom deadbolts on multi-user restroom doors
  • and Marks 195SS cylindrical locksets on doors inside apartments (as well as the occasional door within a SRO unit or multi-user restroom)

The remaining doors use LCN 4040XP closers, Ives 5BB1HW or 5BB1HWNRP hinges (depending on door swing), and either:

  • Falcon MA series mortise locks for non-panic spaces (individual offices, conference rooms, closet/storage rooms off corridors, mechanical/service spaces, passage sets)
  • Corbin ML2072s w/ ML190-V04 indicators on classroom/youth space/britespace doors
  • Von Duprin 99-F fire exit devices with HL6Q-7500 hospital trim on interior stair and non-controlled cross-corridor doors
  • and Von Duprin LD-OUT99NLs on courtyard gates, with a fixed post in double gate sets to serve the purpose of a mullion.

Telecommunications

Life Safety Communications

The life-safety backhaul system consists of a 2N EasyGate IP+ in the R-2, a Teltonika RUT951 combined with a Poly ATA 400 in the I-1, and an Ooma AirDial in the R-1, all provided with wired uplinks in addition to their native cellular connections and all powered from telecoms backup batteries via their associated 48V-12V converters. These are paired with Viking LVR-1s to provide changeover support between telco trunks and cellular backed connectivity.

The elevator communicators in the I-1 and R-2 are Commend id5 TD CMs on James Monroe travelers and local battery-backed supplies using Altronix NetWay1 injectors. (The R-1 keeps its existing audio-only elevator phone.)

The area of refuge systems in all three buildings, though, are analog, using Talkaphone AOR-5 masters and matching Talkaphone callboxes, with callboxes located in stairwells in the I-1 and at non-ground-floor elevator landings in the other buildings. They are interfaced to the local telephone system using a spare FXO port in lieu of a submaster.

Office Telephone & Intercom

The office spaces have IP phone systems, using Pulcro Turnkey QBE microPCs running FreePBX/Asterisk and HAast, with one PBX server in each of the R-1 and I-1. The office phones are GRP2612Ps running on PoE, while each classroom/youth space, as well as the therapy room & britespaces, has a Viking E-1600-22-IP two-button intercom unit in it, and the reception desks have GXV3450s in order to interface to the door intercom systems. The conference rooms get Snom C520s for large rooms or refurbished Avaya B179s for regular rooms, with the conference room phones simply using AC adapters for power. Fax service is supplied using refurbished Lexmark MX331adns with FoIP licenses installed to utilize their native T.38 support.

The reception desks also have Cortelco 121100TP227S analog “lifeline” phones they can use if the rest of the phone system dies. The lifeline in each building is patched through the FXS port of a Grandstream HT-841 that also supplies an outbound FXO trunk to the life safety communication system and a FXO drop to the area of refuge system.

Talk battery in each building consists of 48V banks, with a Delta DRL-48V480W1EN powering a TDK-Lambda DUSH960-1248-1M to charge each bank, and a Traco DC/DC, either a TEQ100-4812WIR for the R-2/B or a TEQ300-4812R in each of the I-1/B and R-1/A-2, to step the 48V battery bus down to 12V for ATAs and cellular communications hardware. The I-1 uses two strings of C&D UPS12-495PLMs and the R-1 uses a single string of UPS12-1005PLMFs, while the R-2 gets a setup using a string of 28Ah batteries for the office side and a string of 55Ah batteries for the residential side, as the office spaces in these buildings only need 8-10h of standby talk battery vs the 24h supplied for the rest of the system.

E911 notification is handled using locally supplied location headers (building name and room/unit number is ample for fixed desk phones & domestic lines), along with an automatic “barge in” join of the appropriate reception desk(s) to any 911 call made through the system. Backhaul is supplied using FS S3400-48T6SP DC powered PoE switches in each building, as well as a FS IES3110-8TFM-P PoE switch and a TRENDnet TI-IG219 injector in the R-2 to supply the residential-side offices, intercoms, and front desk phone in that building.

Residential Telecommunications

Each SRO and apartment receives a Cat5e/RG-6 Siamese, with bulk CATV on the Cat6, ISP-supplied data on 1-2 and 3-6, a locally supplied phone line (I-1 and R-1) or telco-supplied (R-2) on 4-5, and landlord services provided over 7-8, although this last category is only used to supply a dedicated intercom link for the H/V unit in the R-2 building.

The resident phone service in the I-1 and R-1 is supplied using Grandstream ATAs:

  • The I-1 has a GXW4232 and a HT814 for the SROs along with a pair of GXW4224s for the apartments
  • and the R-1 has 3 GXW4232s for the SROs and a HT814 for the phones in the group shelter spaces (2 in the dayroom and 1 in each crisis shelter)

Each resident phone in the SRO is a Scitec Aegis, or a Cortelco 121100TP227S if it’s desired to provide SRO residents with Caller ID. (Apartment dwellers simply get phone jacks they can plug their own phones into.) The Cortelcos are also used for the group shelter spaces.

General Connectivity

The SROs, group shelter spaces, and office areas have Ruckus R350e APs with Unleashed firmware in them to supply segmented WLANs for office/internal, guest/resident, and access control duty. The I-1 and R-1 buildings have TRENDnet TPE-5048WS PoE switches in them for WLAN backhaul, while the R-2 uses a FS S3250-16TF-U for this duty.

There are also wired Ethernet ports in each SRO unit; these are backhauled using FS S2800S-48T4Fs, with 2 in the R-1 and 1 in the I-1.

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1070

Is this documented somewhere?

1071

The modules indeed are, and this is documented in Soteria module datasheets (you’ll note that most XP95A modules are discontinued) – it does appear that XP95A detectors with isolating bases or separate isolators may need to be used on the system though. (Those are still available due to the UL268 7th ed re-release of the XP95A detectors.)

1072

Oh, I didn’t realize Apollo also referred to that protocol as the XP95 protocol. Are they compatible with Gamewell-FCI panels, or is there a brand ID locking system?

Those were re-released? This page lists several XP95A devices as discontinued, so I assumed the line was completely discontinued on the Honeywell side.

1073

As far as I can tell, XP95 never had any sort of brand/vendor ID system.

1074

Apollo re-released their XP95A detectors for UL268 7th Edition. (My understanding is that Gamewell-FCI quit making/rebranding XP95A devices some time ago.)

1075

So it seems like this should work but might not strictly meet UL requirements.

The new Elevate series does not seem to support the XP95A protocol, so I think Gamewell-FCI intends to phase it out.

1076

Since Apollo isn’t proprietary, and won’t discontinue support for those Apollo based Gamewell systems themselves, I’m thinking Honeywell is trying to do everything they can to make them obsolete. They didn’t have to do it for the Silent Knight systems, as the Hochiki devices have brand IDs, and the Silent Knight systems only allow their own devices.

Overall, it’s just some more bad practices and malicious competition.

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One potential obstacle that occurred to me is that if they were to add support for the new Hochiki detectors, they might need to pay for a new UL certification, except they already had to do that to add support for the SS series detectors, so that doesn’t make much sense.

On the plus side, I don’t think the ILI95-E3 and SLC95-PM loop cards have been discontinued yet.

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Honeywell Park University, This university had its first building built in 1987, which is the libary building, which consisted of:
SYSTEM: Simplex 2120
DEVICES: Simplex 2903-9711 Remote Speakers, Wheelock WS-24-15 Remote Strobes, Simplex 2903-9101 Plates with the same remote speakers.
PULL STATIONS: Simplex 4251-20’s

1991 ADDITION:

BUILDING 2: Dorms And Law School:
SYSTEM: Simplex 4100 Classic, networked with 2120
DEVICES: Wheelock E-7070-LSM-24’s and some Wheelock E7025-WM-24’S in the mix.
PULL STATIONS: Simplex 2099-9754’s

2003 ADDITION:

BUILDING 3: School Of Business
SYSTEM: Simplex 4100U
DEVICES: Simplex 4903-9358’s, and a Wheelock ET70WTP outside.
PULL STATIONS: Simplex 2099-9754’s

2005 ADDITION:

BUILDING 4: Food Hall, More Dorms
SYSTEM: Simplex 4100U
DEVICES: Wheelock ET70-24MCW-FR’s
PULL STATIONS: Simplex 2099-9754’s

2011 ADDITION:

BUILDING 5: Medical School
SYSTEM: Simplex 4010, With Simplex 4003EC
DEVICES: Simplex 4903-9358’s and Simplex 4906-9127’s.
PULL STATIONS: Simplex 2099-9754’s.

2023 ADDITION:

BUILDING 6: Planetarium/Science Hall
SYSTEM: Simplex 4100ES
DEVICES: Simplex 59VO-WRF’s, And Simplex 59VO-WWF’s, Voice evac plays on PA for planetarium, and for the Science Hall, They have Wheelock E90 Remote Speakers.
PULL STATIONS: Simplex 4099-9021’s.

All pull stations are by stairways, Exits, and for the food hall, in the kitchen.

1080

Screw it. Another high school system

Panel: Simplex 4100u

Pulls: Addressable Simplex pulls

Smokes: Addressable Simplex smokes

NAs: Gentex Commander 3/4 horn strobes

remodel

Panel: Simplex 4100es with voice

NAs: Gentex Commander 3/4 remote strobes and Wheelock e90 speakers

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This system is for a 15+1 story mass timber (IV-B over I-A) market rate apartment building with the bottom four floors set up as a parking podium. The building has 3 full height elevators (2 FSAEs and 1 express elevator serving the garage, amenity floor, and penthouse level), a single main entrance lobby on the first floor with an accessory leasing office adjacent to it, two back entrances (one on the ground floor and one on the first floor), and a pool and deck atop the podium as part of its amenities.

Fire Alarm & Life Safety

Control & Communications

The fire alarm system consists of two networked Axis AX panels, with the main panel being an AX-LCC4-16 with an AX-SEB2/AX-UCM3 pair, an AV-ZS zone splitter card on its built-in AV-AMP-80, a second AX-ASW-16 switch card, and an AX-NET7 network card, along with a pair of 33Ah batteries for standby power. The secondary panel is an AX-CTL-2 with another AX-NET7 card and a pair of 12Ah battereis, while there is a single AX-ANN-D network annunciator at the main lobby entrance.

The SLCs are Class X, using Apollo Soteria devices with their built-in isolators. Each apartment has a NAC module to provide an isolated speaker NAC, with room for a second NAC module reserved so that strobes can be retrofit in the future.

The elevator lobbies and the outside of each stair on a non-parking floor have smoke detectors in them for recall and door control; it’s presumed that the express elevator has lobbies on all parking garage floors as smoke door/curtain initiation on a parking garage floor is quite difficult otherwise.

Each stair pressurization RTU has RT-3000 smoke detectors on each inlet for smoke ingestion protection, as well as a relay module for control. The stair pressurization signaling inputs are fed to a central AX-CZM connected to the remote panel to conserve SLC points; there are inputs from each inlet smoke/damper pair, as well as from the airflow proving sensors and from the powered anti-chatter damper on the stair’s relief vent.

Panel communication is handled using a redundant pair of Bosch B465 communicators (as there’s no way to get a single dial capture or IPDACT unit with dual Ethernet ports on it).

Notification

The audible notification appliances are Edwards 964-1A-8SW speakers in most habitable spaces, save for those on garage floors, which mostly get Edwards 965-1A-8SW speakers instead. The garage spaces themselves have Atlas VT-157UCR speakers in them, ceiling mounted and set for 15W each (as we have to beat 75+dB car noises), while the deck uses VTF-152UCNs set for 4W.

Visible notification is supplied using System Sensor SGWLED-P strobes inside, SGKWLED-Ps on the deck, and SCWLED-Ps in the garage. A Federal Signal LP1-024R strobe mounted below a Gentex GB10-24 bell provides the sprinkler alarm; this is powered from main panel 24VDC auxiliary power.

The residential floors have AL602ULADA NAC extenders and AV-VB booster amplifiers on them with 7Ah batteries in them, along with a pair of SigCom DAPB-100s with 12Ah batteries in them to provide the additional power needed for the amenity floor speakers. The garage is covered using another AV-VB driving a trio of Wheelock SPB-320s and an AL642ULADA, all containing 7Ah batteries.

All the door magnets are Potter DH24120s running on a shared 24VAC supply.

Residential Life Safety

The smoke alarms in the units are Gentex PLACE PL1ASes – these also provide a backup to the main CO sensors in the parking garage in case CO concentrations build up to a point where they’d threaten the residents.

Exit and Emergency Lighting

The back elevator lobby exit on the ground floor has a RAB Lighting SLIMXXSY above it, while the remaining exits use Juno WF4 SWW5 90CRI pucks under their soffits to supply the egress lighting, and the FCC also is lit using the Juno pucks, with each bank of doors or room on an Iota IIS-25-I microinverter. The exit signs in the building are Lithonia EDGRs in the finished spaces and Exitronix VEX-WPs in the garage and on the amenity deck. Corridor and aisle emergency lighting is supplied using Exitronix FRM series flushmounted fixtures, while the parking garage uses RAB PARK34-40/Es as normal/emergency fixtures.

Parking Garage Ventilation Control

The main parking garage ventilation fans are controlled using Belimo 22G0214-5As with a pair of C-22G-50 relay modules, providing redundant ventilation control outputs and full Class A loops for power, alarm, and trouble. The trash and loading bays use ACI/QEL Q6-CO/NO2-10Ps for ventilation control, and all these sensors receive 24VDC power from a NAC booster consisting of a DMP 865 notification card powered from a LSP FPO150-E1 connected to a SSU00507 trough containing 4 40Ah batteries and monitored by the FACP via a dual input module.

Rescue Assistance & Elevator Communications

The rescue assistance system is a Talkaphone IP system, with an AOR-IP-SUP, AOR-IP-40-CU, and AOR-IP-CSE-FMs at all elevator lobbies above the first floor. There is also a call station on the pool deck to serve as the pool emergency phone.

The Hubbcom GSC4100 communicators in the elevators are tied into this system as well (as the Talkaphone master station is really a GXV3450), using James Monroe Cat6 travelers to connect them to the fixed wiring plant.

That fixed plant, using paired 18TP/2 MI where CI Ethernet cable is called for, is connected back to a stacked pair of Juniper EX4100-F-12P PoE switches with redundant (each switch directly to each firewall) copper uplinks to a HA pair of Juniper SRX320-P firewalls containing 4G mini-PIMs as well as fiber SFPs for the WAN links. The B465s’ Ethernet ports also connect back to the SRX320-Ps directly to keep valuable switch ports free.

Power for the switches, PoE devices, and firewalls (24h idle + 4h active) is provided by two cross-connected strings of Deka Unigy I 12AVR170ETs, with a TDK-Lambda DUSH960-1248 UPS charging them and a pair of Delta DRF-48V480W1GTAs feeding the UPS via Delta DRR-20A diode redundancy modules.

Emergency Power

The main generator in the building is a Yanmar diesel genset with a belly tank. An ETC SC1008 provides emergency power to the receptacles and minisplit for the FCC, the latter being a generic 3/4ton unit.

A Master MCVRT controller and JPCE jockey pump controller handle the Pentair Aurora fire and jockey pumps. The generator-backed power for the FCC, fire pump system, fire alarm system, and emergency communications supply system is wired using MI cable.

Security

The security needs of the building are handled using Swiftlane intercoms and access control panels, with Von Duprin panic devices on exterior exits, assembly space doors, and stair doors, and Schlage L series mortise locks on the apartment entrance doors.

General Telecommunications

The main telecommunications backbone for the building is fiber-based, with each unit having two OS2 fibers down to the MDF, where they can be patched into PON splitters from each ISP serving the building. There is a limited amount of copper, though, both to serve the emergency system (using CI cabling) and for the guest WLAN in the halls and amenity spaces, which uses a Ruckus controller and APs.

The Pool

The swimming pool is handled by a Pentair pump, along with a treatment train consisting of:

  • standard issue sand filtering
  • a Clear Comfort CCW300 hydroxyl (atomic oxygen) AOP secondary disinfector
  • an AquaGen HDO oxygen injector
  • and a ChlorKing NexGen10R salt injecting chlorinator,

all controlled by a Pentair IntelliChem controller with a full sensor suite. This setup was chosen to minimize caustic chemical handling (with the only requirements being water softener rocksalt and muriatic acid for the chlorinator) while not requiring large quantities of cyanuric acid to maintain pool chlorine levels in an outdoor pool.

Elevator Hardware

The elevators are Schumacher gearless overhead traction units with full machinerooms.

1082

Are these listed for 520 Hz? I didn’t see anything on the datasheet indicating that.

Are the stair smoke detectors to unlock the doors for re-entry or to release door holders?

1083

They’re used for door releasing via the common door bus and to provide a direct sensing signal to engage stairwell pressurization. (The stairwells provide free movement through the building.)

Unfortunately, the Axis AX doesn’t have any 520Hz listed-compatible speakers anyway from what I’ve been able to find. (Not that I suspect that a big thumping 8” driver would have any difficulty faithfully reproducing 520Hz, though, and 8” speakers with more modern listings aren’t much of a thing, anyway.)

1084

This system is for a large metal building (was a horse arena, roughly 72k ft2 footprint, Type IIB construction) being converted to an A-4 (unlimited area as per IBC 507.4) indoor sports facility, with a ~5k ft2 enclosed office mezzanine. Note that since the office mezzanine is small enough to be an accessory use, the IEBC most likely does not require that an accessible route be provided to it, which means there’s no need to worry about elevators, or rescue-assistance comms for that matter.

Fire Alarm

Panel and Communicator

The panel is a Kidde FX-5R with a Honeywell HW-AV-LTE-M-2 communicator and 7Ah batteries in it, with the panel at one entrance, and a FSRSI/FSRZI-A annunciator pair at the other main entrance.

Initiation

Initiation consists of:

  • A single waterflow/supervisory zone with the waterflow and supervisory switches for the sprinkler system, which only covers the supporting areas (lockers, team staging, concessions, storage, and offices) to avoid false alarms due to head damage as heavy duty cages aren’t UL listed
  • A pair of KC2-OSH detectors (one at the main panel and one at the VE system headend) for self-protection
  • AP&C/SAE SL-2000-P duct detectors on the supplies and returns of all AHUs & RTUs, all sharing a common supervisory zone
  • and STI Global ReSet GR-RS-22-EN callpoints at all exits (as they’re more ball resistant than a typical pull station while being cheaper than a conventional manual pull with a Stopper or Sentry cover over it)

Notification

The notification system for this building is a full voice evacuation system with strobes, consisting of:

  • A TOA VM-3240A-AMQ voice evac headend in an accessible location
  • An Altronix R1042ULADA connected to external 35Ah batteries and located in the same rack as the TOA headend to power the strobes and duct detectors (up to 31 AHUs/RTUs worth)
  • A TOA VX-2000DS-AMQ supply for the voice evac system, with appropriate batteries as well
  • TCPA-10 HyperSpike speakers set to 24W to cover the main playing field (with room for up to 8 of them)
  • System Sensor SCWLED strobes, set for 185cd and fitted with STI-9760 Damage Stopper cages, to provide visual alerting for the main playing field.
  • Edwards 965-1A-8SW speakers with appropriate settings in enclosed areas (team staging, foyer/lobby, concessions, offices)
  • System Sensor SCWLED strobes in the team staging area
  • System Sensor SWLED strobes in other enclosed areas (foyer/lobby, concessions, offices, restrooms/enclosed lockers
  • and a Potter SASH-120 for the sprinkler waterflow alarm

Other Life Safety

The exit signs for the playing field (as some exits will be added & moved to accommodate the A-4 unlimited area rules) are Fulham FHEX20-WR-EMs in STI-9740 Damage Stopper cages. The enclosed areas, though, use Exitronix ILWC-U-RG-WH combo fixtures, with a Lithonia EU2C on the staging area side of the staging area to playfield doors. There are also Lithonia EU2Cs in the main enclosed locker area and the two largest restrooms (as one of those restrooms exceeds the 300sf threshold Code sets).

Playing field emergency lighting, on the other hand, is supplied by designated normal/emergency fixtures; the fixtures for the playing field are Satco 65-1012 highbays with 65-1018 cages, while the emergency fixtures have 65-1009 emergency drivers on them as well.

1085

This system is for a sprinklered, all-electric 5 over 1 with four floors of R-2 apartments over a S-2 enclosed garage (very stereotypical apartment building anymore, I know).

Fire Alarm

Panel and Communicator

The panel used is a Potter PFC-4064 with an IDC-6 card and its relays wired to the inputs a Napco StarLink SLE-MAX2-CFB; there’s also a PAM-SD on one of the NACs to provide a CO alarm output to the communicator. A pair of 12Ah batteries provide ample standby power for the communicator and panel, with the panel mounted in the lobby.

Initiation

The initiating devices consist of:

  • System Sensor 4WTR-Bs in the elevator lobbies
  • A System Sensor 4WT-B above the panel and another where the communicator is
  • A Napco FWC-CNV-PULL in the riser closet, on the same zone as the self-protection smoke detectors
  • The trouble relays from the AoR system
  • Sprinkler waterflow & supervisory switches (as you’d expect)
  • A Velocity VDOT-ASD-100 aspirating detector for the elevator machine space
  • And the alarm and trouble signals from the parking garage ventilation detectors, which are a trio of Belimo 22G0214-5Cs with a C-22G-50 relay module, connected via CAN bus.

Resettable power for the 4-wire smokes, in addition to a reset relay in the ASD to convert the reset signal to dry contacts, is provided by the IO terminals on the PFC-4064.

Notification

Notification consists of:

  • Gentex GX93-PW mini-horns in the units, one per sleeping space
  • Gentex GEC3-24PWW hornstrobes set for 15cd in the halls and common areas
  • Eaton EL4XMTST-FWs with ELLP-NW covers mounted on the garage ceiling and set for 185cd with a high horn tone
  • And an Eaton EL4XMTST-FW for the waterflow alarm, wired directly to a panel NAC and set for siren tone.

Power for the main NACs (one strobe, one mini-horn, one hallway/commons/garage horn, all Class A) and auxiliary power for the CO/NO2 detectors as well as the aspirating smoke detector is provided by an AL642ULADA with a pair of 22Ah batteries in it.

Parking Garage Ventilation

The parking garage vent fans are a pair of Canarm AX24-1Vs, with one in front and one in back. Each is operated in a two-speed mode by one of the relays on the relay module.

Residential Life Safety

Each unit has interconnected 120V smoke/CO alarms in it (of no specific variety).

Emergency Lighting

The exit lighting package consists of fairly generic LED units, with PLTS-50297 combo exit signs doing the bulk of the work and PLT-50329 “bugeye” exit fixtures infilling where needed. RAB SLIMXXSY wallpacks on an Iota IIS-50-I inverter handle the exit discharge lighting and also illuminate the walkway down the side of the building that connects the patio to the street.

Elevator

The elevator is a MRL traction unit with a top jamb ITM panel. (Is there a non-proprietary way to get this, or is this configuration only available from Schindler, Kone, or Otis?) There’s also a LV-1K at the ground floor landing to annunciate elevator communication failures (connected to a relay on the elevator phone).

Communications

General Telecommunications

The building has a structured cable plant with a single Cat5e/coax Siamese cable and an OS2 duplex fiber run to each unit; this permits tenants to have their choice of services as FTTH is available at the location. “House” service is supplied by a standard cableco gateway unit and a Sophos XGS88 firewall appliance; this provides internet to the intercom and access control systems and an alternate path to the fire panel as well, while providing a backup phone line to the Area of Refuge system (and elevator phone) via a Viking LVR-1.

Rescue Assistance

The primary rescue assistance communications system in the building is a Talkaphone AOR system with an AOR-5-DKL and associated 9Ah battery in the lobby, an AOR-PSU-5-10 in the sprinkler riser closet, and AOR-CSE-FMs on the residential floors and in the elevator cab. This is supplemented by a K-Tech Connect Core unit to provide elevator video and text communication, powered via PoE using a James Monroe Cat6 traveler, the K-Tech POE extractor, and an Altronix NetWay112 injector powered from an AL175ULX with a 9Ah battery in it.

The other phone path for the AOR system (also connected to the LVR-1) and the data link for the elevator video communicator are provided by a K-Tech Dual Air cellular communicator with its built-in batteries.

Security

Access Control

The garage uses a LPR-based access control system using an Axis P3245-LVE-3 ALPR kit with a T6101 Mk II portcast interface, powered from a NetWay1X injector connected to a 24VAC/40VA transformer and connected to the main gateway for control purposes. The I/Os on the portcast interface are used to monitor the entrance loop detector, a Seco-Larm LD-1123PAQ, and control a PAM-4 relay to provide a dry contact to the garage door opener.

The opener itself is a Zap 8825-3-HP with Fraba FOS-1 photoeyes on both sides of the door interfaced to the opener via a Fraba YC1001 module. There’s another Seco-Larm LD-1123PAQ on the exit side of the door to provide free-egress operation, and the opener is in a timed-close mode.

Access control for foot traffic is supplied using a Bas-IP AA-07FBI intercom with a SH-12 remote Wiegand interface, a SH-42 remote relay, and a MR-03KP reader connected to the SH-12’s Wiegand inputs and the AA-07FBI’s built-in relay output. Both doors have generic door contacts on them connected to the AA-07FBI’s inputs (which aren’t worth the extra expense of a Magnasphere because they aren’t supervised, sadly), and power to this setup is supplied by an AL400ULXPD4CB with a NetWay1 injector for the intercom and a pair of 12Ah batteries for backup.

The front doors and rear door use Falcon MA881 fail-secure electrified mortise locks with Command Access CDL power transfers and a fixed mullion to separate the front entrance leaves. The interior stair doors receive Falcon MA101s, while the apartment doors get Falcon MA571s, and the storm shelter door is a Securall 36x84 FEMA 320 unit that is used along with a 36x36 VaultPro roof hatch into the floor above. (There’s also a PLTS-50297 at the main door out of the shelter to provide emergency lighting.)