I'm thinking 🤔 maybe that's okay because the fire department lives in the building. You know so they should be able to put out the first?
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self examination should be job 1 when working for the community
This "experts" should be held accountable for once.
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I hope those "experts" have their feet held to the fire over this
+1 for German sense of play
It's also wordplay. "Brand" means "fire"_
Local officials told the German news agency dpa that no fire alarm system was installed in the building because experts had considered it not necessary — much to the astonishment of many observers now that the station has burned down.
Lol wut? Aren't there formal requirements for the presence of fire alarms in any kind of building?
There are but from what I've read none were required for this building, because it was only used as storage.
There are, but do you know who checks that a building is OK? Take a guess.
Geoff?
Building inspectors
No. This always comes back to the electrical engineer under the IBC (unless specifically authorized by a govt official usually a Fire Marshal, an inspector doesn't actually have the authority), and the building should have had detectors in the sleeping quarters regardless of any other factors. I wouldn't want to be the engineer on this project, even if they had correct drawing per IBC that were overruled. It's going to be bad for them either way.
Unfortunately the article doesn't specify the "experts". Whoever signed that dotted line is pretty much screwed.
Requirements often depend on the type of building occupancy and the chance of fire spread to neighboring buildings.