Fire Alarm Design and Working with the AHJ

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Fire Alarm Design and Working with the AHJ
Ray Grill, ARUP David Lowrey, City of Boulder Fire Rescue

This presentation will review the key drivers of the building and fire codes for fire alarm systems based on occupancy and address design considerations including working with the authority having jurisdiction to facilitate approvals. Passive and active fire protection will be reviewed as will drivers for EVACS and MNS.

Presented by:

Ray Grill, ARUP
Ray Grill is a Principal of Arup and the leader of Arup's fire engineering practice in the Americas. He is licensed as a Fire Protection and Mechanical Engineer in several states and has over 30 years' experience in fire protection engineering. Ray is a past president and current Fellow of SFPE. Ray has served on a number of NFPA technical committees and served as chair of the Fundamentals and the Notification Appliances Technical Committees of NFPA 72. He is currently a member of the Notification Appliances Technical Committee, Emergency Communications Technical Committee, and serves on the Technical Correlating Committee of NFPA 72. He also serves on the NFPA 13 Technical Correlating Committee and NFPA 101/NFPA 5000 Technical Committee on Building Services and Fire Protection Equipment.

David Lowrey, City of Boulder Fire Rescue
David Lowrey serves as Chief Fire Marshal with the City of Boulder Fire Rescue in Colorado. Lowrey has been with Boulder Fire for 19 years. He oversees operations in the Community Risk Reduction Division, including code enforcement, building construction, life safety education, and fire investigations. He has extensive experience in plan review as well as inspecting and acceptance testing of fire protection systems. David currently serves as a principal on the NFPA 13 Technical Committee for Installation as well as the NFPA 13 correlating committee. He is the current chair of the NFPA 72 Technical Committee on Notification Appliances and an alternate on technical committees for NFPA 3 and NFPA 4. Lowrey earned a BS in Fire Protection and Safety Engineering Technology at Oklahoma State University.