COURSE TITLE:
Fire Alarm and Signaling Systems - Plan Review and Permit Submittals per NFPA 72-2025 and CBC/CFC 2025
TRAINING DATE:
Friday, May 08, 2026
TRAINING LOCATION:
Electrical Training Alliance of Silicon Valley, 1873 Barber Lane, Milpitas, CA 95035
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:
This Training will cover the following topics per the current applicable codes in California:
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NEW 2025 CA Codes (CBC/CFC) and NFPA-72 2025 requirements for Fire Alarm and Signaling Systems plans submittals for permits and AHJ approval.
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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.
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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
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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
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Detailed Evacuation/Relocation schemes: Total or Partial evacuation and Relocation of occupants including associated pre-recorded messages for Voice-Based systems
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Initiating devices and notification appliances placements based on applicable codes
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Smoke control interface with the FA system as applicable
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Fire Alarm system calculations based on Tone-Based and Voice-Based systems - Battery Capacity calculations, Voltage Drop calculations, Speaker and amplifier power calculations
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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.
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System components wiring 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.
*Note for CEU's: There is no cost for conversion of CEU's to a WBFAA member. Fees may apply to non-members.
