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(Ctntinued frorn pd,ge 7g/) the S50 million medical center build- that included tbe state fire marshal,
spaces above the ceilings on all lev* ing was pricinS: out to about $60 the state hospital facilities planning
els of the building, the mechanical, million. He sent a team of his own coordinator, and the state director
electrical, and plumbing systems staff members and the consultants of soeial and rehabilitation ser-
(whieh need never change) travel to survey some similar facilities for vices; the university's vice+hancel'
horizontally. The interstitial spaces possible eost reduction features. lor of medical administration end
minimize the amount of usable floor Architects for two of the hospitals the facilities officer of the univer-
iuea occupied by the meehanical mentioned cost savings achieved sity's board of regents; and his own
sysl.cms. Itr addition, a monorail t.hrough tf,re us€ of a new type of engineers and consultants. This
delivery system transports medica- sprinkler system that uses smaller team reviewed all fire .safetY fea-
tions, X rays, samples, and medical pipes.; that, therefore, costs less; tures, including smoke detectors,
records vertically through shafts and that involves some new and alarm and communicaiions sYstems,
and horizontally through the in- trasic concepts of proteetion against elevator controls, fi reproofing, exits,
ter.stitial spaces to key gtations fire.t :rnd compartmentation, not only on
t.hrouchout. I hc building. After investigating the matter, an individual basis but also as com-
Nonpermanent elements are the the state architect hired the fire ponents of lhe tatal fire safety plan.
interior pnrtii,ion systems, the ceil- prevention engineering firm for two The sprinkler syslem was the key
inss, the equipment, and the office jobs: (1) to design the flre protec- to the cost reductions. Because
furnishings. Metal stud and gypsum tion system for the buildings, sub- sprinklers were installed through-
board walls and acoustical tile eeil- stituting the new sprinkler system out the entire building, fireproofln&
ings form the interior spaces. The for conventional sprinklers, and (2) the alarm system, and other fire
permanent elements, such as the 4& to design a "Composite Fire Safety safety features could be modified.
foot by ?Z-foot struetural steel col- Plan" for the building. In the com- For example, sprinklers were in-
umn bays and the interstitial spaces, posite plan, the sprinkler system stalled in the interstitial spaces'
provide large, unobstructed ffoor g'a.s the primary fire safety tool, and thereby allowing a maior reduction
area.s. In these area.s, the nonper- the structural fireproofing and the in the amount of above-the-ceiling'
manent elements can be reorganized compartmentation features were sec- spray-on fireproofing required. In
en^sily to accommodate technological ondary aspects. Excessive fire pro- addition, the earlier bid documents
chanFe, with minimal remodeling teetion costs were eliminated. More- eontained a standard sprinkler sys-
costs and witi minimal interruption over, all local, state, and federal fire tem for the basement level onlY-
to vital services. safety regulations were met. To en- This Jeature was deleted, providing
sure that the composite plan pre' a credit of $403,000. Bids were rc-
pared by Patton, Inc., met these ceived on the new sprinkler system'
Eeonomieal fire eafety plan regulations, the state architect set and the total amount of the contract
Most industries must deal with up a state fire safety review team for the nev" system was $431'136.
inflation, but the construction in- Thus, credit from the standard sys-
lTlre phnner of the sprinkler stxtm is Pet-
dustry must deal with "double in- ton. Ine. Deirners Gonsultaats, Fi* Pmtec- tem, which was to be installed on
tlor Eagincss, Oolumbus. OH-
flation." First, the usual labor and only one level, almost completelY
materials costs inerease. Second, oaid for the new system, which was
building eonstruction codes keep installed throughout the building.
changinF, and the changes cost
The lost thildren... The three final results of the fire
money. For example, during: the safety innovations were the follow-
past l0 yeArs, new state fire safetY help srve them ing:
regulations have been added to new
r The building is safer because
Tday 500lt0l! childrm are vic- there are sprinklers throughout it.
Iocal fire safety regulations. Through tine of serious mental illness.
r,arious aFencies, the federal gov- ltey are lost children-lost to r Construetion costs were reduced
ernment ha-s imposed additional tleir families, tbeir commcni- by more than $5 million.
tiee, and to themselves- About a c The composite Plan is a sensible
codes. Furthermore, various eode- third of them can be helped- plan, rather than a hodgepodge of
making organizations that write New researcb is the only h{rp€
for the rest. The National Asso- regulations. It allows more rational
"voluntary consensus standards" correlation between the emergency
have been prolificallv writinS: new cigtion for lf,ental Fealtb sup-
ports sucb tesearch anil provides plans and procedures and the emer-
fire safety rules. Consequently, iu special tf,eetrnent services and gency systems.
planning a facility, one must con- schooling for these children.
sider the fact that the price of a Save the lost chil- The fact that more than 5t) Per-
cent of the $10 million in savings
fffi
smoke detector will increase but also dren-
that more smoke detectors must be resulted frorn fire protection inno-
installed-
Consequenuy, it was no wonder
that the state architect found that
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shows tbe degree to which
fire codes afrest construetion costs.
Incidentally, the state architect and