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S&B Fire Protection
Systems Program
NEWS
A public hearing was
October 14, 2008, to consider making permanent the emergency rules
issued in September related to installation of carbon monoxide alarms
in some commercial buildings and in tourist sleeping rooms under the
Uniform Dwelling Code.
New brochure, PDF file, about requirements for installation of carbon monoxide alarms
Changes to Comm 2, Fee Code, and Comm 5, Licenses, Registrations, and
Certifications Code, were adopted by the Department of Commerce and
will be effective December 1, 2008. The changes will increase service fees in the S&B Fire Protection Systems Program.
Fire protection
systems are not mandated in all new aircraft
hangars in Wisconsin, PDF file
** In August of 2007,the
Madison
Fire Department
conducted a side-by-side live burn demonstration to compare the fire
patterns of a dwelling with
sprinklers versus a dwelling without sprinklers. The
demonstration took place at the top of State Street (at the
State-Mifflin-Carroll intersection) on Capitol Square.
Select
the Photos to Enlarge Them!
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The
controlled demonstration showed a cozy cubicle room without a fire
sprinkler flash into a blaze that left a blackened destroyed
death trap.
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Madison
Fire Department staff constructed the demonstration rooms and then city
Fire Marshall explained to the onlookers that the room on the right had
the needed residential fire sprinkler.
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At
State and Mifflin in Madison, the observers saw the progression of the
side-by-side burns, the one on the left without the sprinkler and the
one on the right where the sprinkler put the fire out.
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Program
Description: The Safety and Buildings
Division Fire
Protection System Program includes fire detection, notification, alarm,
and suppression systems. Rules
are administered pertaining to fire protection systems. There are
credentials administered for automatic fire sprinkler system workers,
according to Comm 5, Credentialing Code.
Fire protection system plan review is offered. See also Fire Prevention
Program,
Fire Department Safety and Health Program,
and Commercial Buildings Program.
1.
S&B
Fire protection Program Contacts GO
2. Fire
Protection
Plan Review
GO
3.
Fire Protection forms
GO
4.
Fire Protection licenses and registrations GO
5.
Wisconsin
Building Safety Network GO
6. How to Obtain S&B
Codes
7.6. You can sign up to
receive occasional email messages from the Safety and Buildings
Division
about news that is important to people interested in Fire Protection
Systems.
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S&B
Fire Protection Systems Program Contacts
Email
technical questions
about fire
protection systems to: fireprotech@commerce.state.wi.us
Fax technical
questions about fire protection
systems to:
608-283-7405
Fire
Protection System Plan
Reviewers/ Consultants are:
- Lynne LeCount,
Waukesha, LLecount@commerce.state.wi.us,
262-548-8621;
- Mark Gardetto, Waukesha, mark.gardetto@wisconsin.gov,
262-523-3044;
- Keith Glaunert, Waukesha, kglaunert@commerce.state.wi.us,
262-548-8604.
Fire Protection Systems
Section Chief, Dan Meneguin, dan.menguin@wi.gov,
608-266-0056 Fire Protection Systems Program Manager, Jim
Smith, jim.smith@wi.gov,
608-266-0251Lists of Wisconsin fire
departments' contacts and addresses
List
of Wisconsin Fire
Departments' WebSites.
Automatic Fire Sprinkler Contractor and Journeyman Council
S&B Fire Protection Systems
Plan Review
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Plan
Review Status Check - You can enter customer ID info and
learn
the status of your S&B scheduled plan review.
- S&B has
a page for scheduling
commercial buildings plan reviews, including fire protection
systems.
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Fire
Protection Agents: The following municipalities are delegated agents of
the department to perform plan review of fire detection
and suppression systems as prescribed under s. Comm 61.30.
City of Appleton
City of Burlington
City of Madison
Village of McFarland
City of Verona
The City of
Milwaukee also has plan review authority. - Fire Suppression
and Alarm Plans and Checklist PDF file
- Combination water calc worksheet for home plumbing system
and
13D fire protection system, SBD-10717 (N03/01) PDF
file, Word
97 file
S&B
Fire Protection Systems Credentials
- Credential status
checks.
- Credential application forms.
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Credential prerequisites.
- Fire sprinkler credential holder lists, PDF file, Excel file.
- Contact the Credentialing Unit, madisoncred@commerce.state.wi.us,
608-261-8500.
- Credential program Web
site.
- Brochure, PDF file, about requirements for installation of carbon monoxide alarms
- "Making Wisconsin Night Safer, Wisconsin's Smoke Alarm Requirements" SBD-8282P (R9/08), PDF file
WBSN
The
Wisconsin Building Safety Network
is a
new name for a long-standing group of state and local
officials working together to promote safety and health in the built
environment in Wisconsin - since 1915. Suggestions are welcome on what might be
useful
on the WBSN Web page.
County
Web sites ||
City/Town/Village Web sites || State Portal || Build Your
Business
Email this page's manager, Todd Taylor, ttaylor@commerce.state.wi.us
or 608-267-3606
The Department of Commerce Safety and Buildings Division is
an equal opportunity service provider and employer. If you need
assistance to access services or need material in an alternate format,
please contact us, 608-266-3151, TDD Relay dial 711 in Wisconsin or 800-947-3529, or ttaylor@commerce.state.wi.us
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