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Fire Alarm Plan Review Training - August 9, in Sacramento

  • 08/09/2024
  • 8:00 AM - 2:00 PM
  • Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District, 10545 Armstrong Ave, #200, Mather, CA 95655
  • 2
  • 57 registrants

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  • Individual CAFAA member, or an
    Employee of a CAFAA member company
  • Not an individual CAFAA member
    Not an employee of a CAFAA member company
    Not an active California FPO/AHJ
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IN-PERSON TRAINING

COURSE TITLE:  

FIRE ALARM PLAN REVIEW TRAINING  

TRAINING DATE: 

Friday, August 9, 2024

TRAINING LOCATION:

Sacramento Metropolitan Fire District 

10545 Armstrong Ave, #200, Mather, CA 95655

INSTRUCTOR: 

SAGIV WEISS-ISHAI, P.E.
CA Licensed Fire Protection Engineer

·       27 yrs. experience in Fire Protection Engineering

·       Principal AHJ member – NFPA 72 Technical Committee SIG-PRO since 2012

·       AHJ Member national elevator safety Code ASME A17.1 – Emergency Operations & Hoistway Technical committees

·       NFPA 72 and ASME A17.1 Task Group member on Fire Service Access Elevators & Occupant Evacuation Elevators

·       AHJ Member – Calif. State Fire Alarm Code Advisory Committee

·       Chair of the elevator committee for the CA Existing Building Code

·       Served as Fire Code Official on the Calif State – Bldg. Fire & Other Code Advisory Committee to the Calif. Bldg. Stds. Commission

·       AHJ Member 2019-2020 CSFM Elevator Work Group to Changes in CBC Chapter 30 – Elevators

·       Past President – Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) of the Nevada-Northern CA Chapter

COURSE OUTLINE:

  • Applicable 2022 CA Codes and NFPA-72 2022 requirements for Fire Alarm Plans submittals for permits and AHJ approval.
  • Significant information and documentation to be included on permit plans such as: Applicable codes, Detailed scope of work, Equipment list including CSFM listing, general notes, supervising station information, floor plans to scale, Required elevators information, etc. 
  • Required associated reference permit plans for complete Fire Alarm system design such as: Site Plans, Architectural, Electrical and Mechanical plans, Sprinkler and Fire Pump plans, ERRCS and 2-Way-ECS plans and any other Life-safety / emergency system that has interface with the Fire Alarm system
  • Fire Alarm sequence of operation matrix including all required Inputs and Outputs to and from the Fire Alarm system including sprinkler/elevator/fire pump/ERRCS and other associated inputs 
  • Detailed Evacuation/Relocation schemes: Total or Partial evacuation and Relocation of occupants including associated pre-recorded messages for Voice-Based systems 
  • Initiating devices and notification appliances placements based on applicable codes  
  • Smoke control interface with the FA system as applicable
  • Fire Alarm system calculations based on Tone-Based and Voice-Based systems - Battery Capacity calculations, Voltage Drop calculations, Speaker and amplifier power calculations
  • Pathways and wire designations such as Initiating Devices Circuit (IDC), Signaling Line Circuit (SLC), Notification Appliance Circuit (NAC) Class A and Class B pathways and Class D – Fail Safe circuits.
  • Significant diagrams and details to be included on Fire Alarm plans such as control unit and initiating devices and notification appliances point-to-point diagrams elevations and locations

GENERAL INFORMATION: 

  • Five and one-quarter (5.25) Continuing Education Hours (CEH) will be awarded to students on completion of training.  The CEHs can be converted to Continuing Education Units (CEUs) by the WBFAA.
  • Class size is limited in both locations.  We will implement a wait-list process and encourage you to add yourself to the waitlist as that will be a gauge to us that the class should be re-offered.
  • Our goal for in-person training is to be able to offer at least one in-person training session, in each region, in each calendar quarter. 
  • FPE and CAFAA will be developing new course material to meet the ever-changing needs of our membership, for a fresh, high-quality, California-centric curriculum.
  • Sagiv Weiss-Ishai, P.E. (Calif. Licensed Fire Protection Engineer) is the principal trainer for FPE and will be the instructor for the two sessions in August. 


*Disclaimer:  As the course trainer, Mr. Weiss-Ishai will not be representing the SFFD policies or procedures in his course delivery. * 

WHO CAN BENEFIT BY ATTENDING THE CLASS:

  • Fire Alarm and Signaling systems personnel (e.g. Designers, Installers, Technicians, Service personnel, Vendors, Engineers)
  • Authority Having Jurisdiction (AHJ) and Code Officials (e.g. Fire, Building, Electrical, Code Enforcers and Plan Reviewers)
  • Electrical and Fire Protection Engineers
  • Fire Inspectors: Plan-check and field inspectors

MATERIALS PROVIDED: 

Each student will receive a HARD copy booklet (2-slide per page format, double-sided) at the training site.

CLASS SCHEDULE:  

7:30am - 8:00am Continental breakfast

8:00am - 9:45am Training and Q&A

9:45am - 10:00am Break

10:00am - 12:00pm Training and Q&A

12:00pm - 12:30pm Lunch

12:30pm - 1:45pm Training and Q&A

1:45pm - 2:00pm open Q&A session on any class related topic

ENROLLMENT FEES

$199 for California FPOs/AHJs

$299 for employees of a CAFAA member company

$399 for non-CAFAA member attendees

CLASS SIZED IS LIMITED TO 50 STUDENTS - we will go to a Wait List process if/when the maximum is reached.  If the wait list is implemented, we encourage you to add yourself if interested as we will use the list as a gauge to whether the class should be re-offered.





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