January 23, 2022
Dear ANGEL GRACE BAYANG,
Greetings!
Thank you for your request dated Feb 02, 2021 09:21:13 AM under Executive Order No. 2 (s. 2016) on Freedom of Information in the Executive Branch.
Your Request
You asked for Request Letter for Information about the type of establishments that require a Fire Sprinkler System.
Fire Sprinkler System
SECTION 10.2.6.8 STANDPIPES
A. The design, installation and maintenance of standpipe systems shall be in accordance with
NFPA 14, Standard for the Installation of Standpipe, Private Hydrant and Hose Systems.
B. Wet Standpipes
Wet standpipe system extending from the cellar or basement into the topmost storey
shall be required in the following:
1. Assembly occupancies with an occupant load exceeding one thousand (1,000);
2. Educational, healthcare and detention and correctional, business and mercantile,
industrial, and hotels and apartments occupancies, four or more storeys in height, and
3. Hazardous storage and business and mercantile occupancies having a floor area
exceeding one thousand eight hundred sixty square meters (1,860 m²) per floor.
The following assembly occupancies with occupant load of one hundred fifty (150)
persons or more shall be protected throughout by an approved, supervised automatic
sprinkler system:
a. bars with live entertainment;
b. dance halls;
c. discotheques; and
d. assembly occupancies with festival seating.
Buildings containing assembly occupancies with occupant load of more than three
hundred (300) persons shall be protected by an approved, supervised automatic
sprinkler system:
a. throughout the storey containing the assembly occupancy;
b. throughout all storeys below the storey containing the assembly occupancy;
c. in case of an assembly occupancy located below the level of exit discharge,
throughout all storeys intervening between that storey and the level of exit discharge,
including the level of exit discharge.
3. The provisions of paras 1 and 2 above shall not apply to assembly occupancy with all
sides open and places of worship at the level of exit discharge with sufficient means of
egress.
For further reference, you can download a PDF File of the Revised Implementing Rules and Regulations of RA9514, the Fire Code of the Philippines of 2008 at http://bfp.gov.ph/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/RA9514-RIRR-rev-2019.pdf.
We apologize for the extreme delay in your request, as we have only activated our Freedom of Information Portal recently. Nevertheless, we are encouraging you to use our eFOI Portal again for your queries and we will answer at the soonest possible time.
If you are unhappy with this response to your FOI request, you may ask us to carry out an internal review of the response by writing to DIRECTOR LOUIE S PURACAN, Chief, BFP, at
[email protected]. Your review request should explain why you are dissatisfied with this response, and should be made within 15 calendar days from the date when you received this letter. We will complete the review and tell you the result within 30 calendar days from the date when we receive your review request.
If you are not satisfied with the result of the review, you then have the right to appeal to the Office of the President under Administrative Order No. 22 (s. 2011).
Thank you.
Respectfully,
Dexter Ace Carolino
FOI Receiving Officer
