The Special Case of Fire Protection - Part 2

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It could also be that that hotel, that sort of a nice long thin building maybe and there's the bluff edge, it might be that you start to think about the design in such a way that there could be firetruck access to some spot like that where at least they could get reasonably close to everywhere but then not have it be over the whole length of the building but you know, maybe that's close enough and that's enough for the fire marshals to feel like that answers the issue at hand. So you know there's a lot of different ways you could start to tackle something like this, but that's the kind of thing you would want to do, this is why you start thinking about these things early it's so that you have this ability to say, well, let's see, how could we turn this issue into an opportunity and from an Ncarb standpoint the question is gonna be, you know, here's a series of complicated aspects of the scenario and then here's a specific direct question and that direct question would be, after you've read the program, after you've read the code, after you've read all these different things, and it's gonna be some question like, alright, how do we get the firetrucks into this one location, you would have to have some response like this that would be well, this would get us the benefits without causing the overall difficulties. So where are the possibilities, where are the benefits, how can you make it into a positive, that kind of thing.

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