Fire alarm control panel for mixed-use building

[designer82]

In a mixed-use building, say retail on the first floor and apartments on floors 2-4, you would still have just one FACP for the whole building right?

You would program multiple zones but you wouldn't put in 2 FACP's, one for the retail and one for the apartments?

Just need a peer check on this.

Thank You

 

[W@ttson]

What I have seen is 1 panel, but the residential areas are limited to the common areas only. The apartments themselves have isolated interconnected smoke detectors.

 

[gadfly56]

What I have seen is 1 panel, but the residential areas are limited to the common areas only. The apartments themselves have isolated interconnected smoke detectors.

This is generally the case, and for something like a 4-story building with retail on the first floor, not likely to change. However, in larger buildings, there is a tendency for the notification to be extended into the apartments, such that if there is an alarm in the common space, smoke, pull or waterflow, there will be a notification appliance connected to the building fire alarm panel that sounds in the apartment.