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32、rotection and Life Safety Systems 2018 Edition This edition of NFPA 3, Standard for Commissioning of Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems, was prepared by the Technical Committee on Commissioning and Integrated Testing. It was issued by the Standards Council on August 1, 2017, with an effective d
33、ate of August 21, 2017, and supersedes all previous editions. This edition of NFPA 3 was approved as an American National Standard on August 21, 2017. Origin and Development of NFPA 3 The 2012 edition of NFPA 3, Recommended Practice for Commissioning and Integrated Testing of Fire Protection and Lif
34、e Safety Systems, represented NFPAs rst document outlining a systematic approach to provide documented conrmation that re protection and life safety systems function as intended by the owner and the design team. The genesis of this document was a request from the National Institute of Building Scien
35、ces (NIBS) to provide a commissioning document for re protection systems that would be part of a conglomeration of commissioning documents that could be used to create a total building commissioning program. NFPA 3 addresses the administrative and procedural concepts of re protection and life safety
36、 system commissioning and also provides direction on the integrated system tests. The document is designed to identify the commissioning team members, their qualications, and their roles and responsibilities throughout the commissioning process. Chapter 5 addresses the concept of commissioning from
37、the incipient stages of a project through the occupancy and operation of the facility. Throughout the commissioning process there are several key documents that are identied in the recommended practice such as the Owners Project Requirements (OPR) and the Basis of Design (BOD), that provide directio
38、n to the commissioning team members as they are executing the commissioning plan. These documents, which are generated during the design phase, are implemented during construction. NFPA 3 also addresses retro-commissioning and re-commissioning of existing buildings. For existing buildings that have
39、never been commissioned, a retro-commissioning plan is developed and executed to establish a benchmark for the facility. Existing buildings that have been previously commissioned are periodically re-commissioned and compared to the compliance benchmarks established in the original commissioning plan
40、. NFPA 3 contains many forms that are available to assist in project documentation and the implementation of the commissioning program. The largest modication to NFPA 3 for the 2015 edition was the removal of Chapter 7 from the 2012 edition. This chapter addressed integrated system testing as part o
41、f the overall re protection and life safety system commissioning concept. The Technical Committee on Commissioning and Integrated Testing determined that while commissioning re protection systems was not ready for standardization, there was an imminent need to create a standard for testing integrate
42、d re protection and life safety systems. The technical committee requested to separate the concepts of commissioning and integrated system testing into two documents: the rst, a recommended practice on commissioning; and the second, a new standard, NFPA 4, Standard for Integrated Fire Protection and
43、 Life Safety System Testing, addressing the integrated system testing portion. This restructuring and request for a new project was approved by the Standards Council in October 2011 and resulted in Chapter 7 of the 2012 edition of NFPA 3 being removed for the 2015 edition and using it as the basis f
44、or NFPA 4.COMMISSIONING OF FIRE PROTECTION AND LIFE SAFETY SYSTEMS 3-2 2018 Edition In addition to the document split, the technical committee focused on updating the recommendations for existing building commissioning. Additional detail was added to the sections on re-commissioning and retro-commis
45、sioning to assist re commissioning agents in carrying out commissioning projects on existing buildings. The 2018 edition of NFPA 3 was changed from a recommended practice to a standard in order to be utilized by the commissioning industry and be referenced by other NFPA standards as well as other co
46、mmissioning standards. Many of the changes throughout the document were made to reect the change from recommendations to mandatory requirements. In addition, many of the requirements were reorganized and moved into other chapters to make the standard more useable. NFPA 3 was originally developed as
47、a recommend practice, however, its ability to be utilized by the commissioning industry is limited as a recommended practice. The document should be revised to be a standard so that it can easily be referenced by other NFPA standards as well as be referenced by other commissioning standards. The pro
48、posed text was developed by task group of the Technical Committee on Commissioning and Integrated Testing.COMMITTEE PERSONNEL 3-3 2018 Edition Technical Committee on Commissioning and Integrated Testing Maurice M. Pilette, Chair Mechanical Designs Ltd., MA SE Cecil Bilbo, Jr., Academy of Fire Sprink
49、ler Technology, Inc., IL SE Art Black, Carmel Fire Protection Associates, CA E Bruce H. Clarke, American International Group, Inc. (AIG), NC I Shane M. Clary, Bay Alarm Company, CA IM Michael D. DeVore, State Farm Insurance Company, IL I Rep. NFPA Industrial Fire Protection Section Paul F. Dunphy, Jr., Harvard University, MA U Rep. Association of Higher Education Facilities Ofcers Douglas W. Fisher, Fisher Engineering, Inc., GA SE Lawrence W. Forshner, Bard, Rao + Athanas Consulting Engineers, LLC, MA SE David W. Frable, U.S. G
