Designing Fire Protection Piping Layout for Classroom and Corridor Areas

Completing Piping Layout in Different Building Zones

Explore this step-by-step guide on how to design a fire protection system. The article provides detailed insights on how to draw and connect pipes, make necessary adjustments, apply offsets, and deal with technical issues that may arise during the design process.

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  • The article demonstrates the process of creating a fire protection system, starting with drawing a one and a half inch pipe and setting the elevation of the main at 10 foot 6.
  • It offers practical advice on connecting the arm overs, aligning elevations, extending the branch line, and capping it. The guide also suggests solutions when the system doesn't align as expected.
  • The content concludes with successfully completing the piping in classroom corridor areas, restroom areas, and a particular area of the building, with the promise to continue the piping in the library, gym, and kitchen areas in subsequent articles.

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So let's move over here. Let's take our section. Okay, so first let's draw our pipe.

We'll make it one and a half inch. Fire protection outlets starting a bit past the sprinkler. It might be a little close, so we can even offset this.

The elevation of our main is at 10 foot 6. So let's set this to 10 foot 6 as well, and we can do a bit of offset. We can always adjust this later. For now, we'll keep it like this.

Let's draw one more, coming this way, excuse me. Okay, let's go ahead and connect our arm overs. We'll start with this sprinkler.

All right, there we are connected. We'll offset this one this time. First, let's align it to this elevation.

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Remove the fitting. We'll go down four inches. Remove the detail line.

Select the branch line. Trim extend. I'll put my cap on the branch line now.

Again, you'll find the workflow that you'd like to do. I'm just thinking of this as I'm going through it. Okay, lastly, let's draw this to the center.

Draw our pipe. Okay, we can do this sprinkler here. Okay, we deleted that dimension in reference.

Pull this back and cap it. Okay, just these two sprinklers and this one, and we should be finished. Sometimes you have to zoom in.

In this case, it might be better in the section view. Let's try to align it. So in this case, it doesn't want to align.

So what we can do is we can nudge this over maybe about just one inch. These pieces are still connected. Still doesn't want to connect.

Sometimes Revit doesn't want to play nice. There we go. Okay, so again, sometimes you'll just have to keep trying.

Sometimes in the plan view or the section view, that's Revit being Revit. Okay, let's close our section. We have completed our piping in our classroom corridor areas, the restroom areas, and this area of the building.

So in the next videos, we will finish our piping in the library, in the gym, and the kitchen areas.

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Derek Cutsinger

BIM Instructor/Coordinator

Derek’s background is in both education and MEP. He earned his BA in Music Education from San Diego State University and is also a TEFL certified English language instructor. In addition to educational roles, he is also an experienced fire protection design engineer and has extensive knowledge in many programs and processes used in AEC industries. He brings his unique and eclectic skillset to VDCI as their Curriculum Coordinator. In his free time he can be found weightlifting in his garage, hanging out with his wife and pug, or painting and drawing in his studio.

  • BA Music Education – San Diego State University
  • MA Applied Linguistics (in process) – San Diego State University
  • TEFL Certified English Language Instructor
  • NICET 1 Certification
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