Plan Review Notes
Plan Review Notes For Permit 08090577
Permit Number 08090577
Review Stop E
Sequence Number 3
Notes
Date Text
2008-12-05 13:06:38 
 ** FAILED/TEMPORARY**
  
  
  
 1) NOTE: PLEASE SEE FBC 13-415.2.ABC.1. THE FOLLOWING
 IS EXTRACTED DIRECTLY FROM THE FLORIDA BUILDING CODE.
 **
 **TRADE-OFFS OF INTERIOR LIGHTING POWER ALLOWANCE AMONG
 PORTIONS OF THE BUILDING FOR WHICH A DIFFERENT METHOD
 OF CALCULATION HAS BEEN USED ARE NOT PERMITTED.**
 AS THE PLANS SUBMITTED INDICATE METHOD *C* AND THE
 FLA-COM BEING SUBMITTED IS METHOD*B* THIS A CLEAR
 CONFLICT WITH THE CODE SECTION AS NOTED ABOVE.
 THE MINIMUM PRESCRIPTIVE REQUIREMENTS FOR LIGHTING
 PERFORMANCE IS SHOWN ON ELECTRICAL PLANS ARE IS OK.
 HOWEVER THE FLA-COM B MAY NOT BE USED IN CONJUNCTION.
 PLEASE SEE SECTION 202 FOR DEFINITIONS OF A RENOVATION
 AND SECTION 13-400.0.C.4. THE FOLLOWING IS EXTRACTED
 DIRECTLY FROM THE LATEST REVISIONS WHICH ARE ADOPTED IN
 THE 2004 FBC.
  
 13-400.0.C.4 RENOVATED BUILDINGS.
 RENOVATED BUILDINGS SHALL, WHEN APPLICABLE (SEE SECTION
 202), MEET THE EFFICIENCIES LISTED ON FORM 400C FOR
 COMPONENTS BEING CHANGED OR SHALL COMPLY WITH THE
 ENVELOPE OR SYSTEMS CRITERIA IN METHOD B OF FLA/COM FOR
 THE COMPONENTS BEING CHANGED. EXISTING BUILDINGS NOT
 MEETING THE DEFINITION OF A RENOVATION IN WHICH NEW
 HEATING, COOLING, WATER HEATING, ELECTRICAL OR LIGHTING
 SYSTEMS ARE INSTALLED SHALL MEET THE BASIC PRESCRIPTIVE
 MINIMUM EFFICIENCIES LISTED IN THIS CODE FOR THE
 SYSTEM(S) BEING CHANGED.
 13-400.1 PRESCRIPTIVE REQUIREMENTS.
 BASIC PRESCRIPTIVE REQUIREMENTS SHALL BE MET FOR ALL
 BUILDINGS. THE SECTION NUMBER FOLLOWED BY THE COMBINED
 NUMBER AND LETTERS ?.1.ABC? INDICATES THESE BASIC
 PRESCRIPTIVE REQUIREMENTS (I.E., PRESCRIPTIVE
 REQUIREMENTS THAT SHALL BE MET BY BUILDINGS COMPLYING
 BY EITHER METHOD A, B, OR C) IN SECTIONS 401 THROUGH
 415. PRESCRIPTIVE REQUIREMENTS SPECIFIC TO METHOD A, B,
 OR C (I.E. ?.1.B? IS SPECIFIC TO METHOD B) SHALL BE MET
 WHEN COMPLYING WITH THE CODE BY THAT METHOD. WHERE A
 PRESCRIPTIVE REQUIREMENT SPECIFIC TO A METHOD IS MORE
 STRINGENT THAN THE BASIC PRESCRIPTIVE REQUIREMENT, THE
 MORE STRINGENT REQUIREMENT SHALL BE MET.
  
  
 ** UPON READING SECTION 202 OF THE FBC CHAPTER 13
 DEFINITIONS YOU WILL BE ABLE TO UNDERSTAND HOW THIS IS
 NOT A RENOVATED BUILDING BY THE DEFINITION.
  
 A CALL WAS PLACED TO THE ARCHITECT OF RECORD AND A
 MESSAGE WAS LEFT ON VOICE-MAIL. A CALL WAS ALSO PLACED
 TO MR. TIM CROWLEY OF PRESIDENTIAL CONSTRUCTION TO
 INFORM OF THE DISCREPANCIES.
  
  
 PLEASE CALL AS SOON AS POSSIBLE TO GO OVER FOR
 ACCEPTABLE FORM FOR OTHER TRADES.
  
 DEWEY PALMER
 ELECTRICAL PLAN REVIEW
 CONSTRUCTION SERVICES DEPARTMENT
 CITY OF WEST PALM BEACH
 561-805-6717
 [email protected]
  


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