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Fire Protection Engineering Services Delivery Contract, General Services Administration, National Capital Region

 

EBL performed fire protection engineering services for this indefinite delivery contract, including the following tasks:

  • Perform submittal reviews for compliance with project contract plans and specifications

  • Provide fire protection design review services for projects in any or all stages of design

  • Provide consulting services on a variety of fire protection issues

  • Provide fire protection review of building condition reports, building evaluation reports, prospectus development studies and other related studies and reports which relate to fire protection

  • Acceptance testing of new fire protection systems

  • Evaluate existing fire protection systems, which may include a water supply analysis and coordination with the local water supply authority

  • Prepare new and review existing guide specifications

  • Respond to assistance requests (problem solving, exiting problems, evaluation of potentially hazardous situations, etc.) from building managers and or construction engineers/ representatives, inspectors, etc.

  • Provide water supply analyses, preparation of and/or review of sprinkler system hydraulic calculations

  • Perform building exit calculations including but not limited to NFPA 101A analysis

  • Attend meetings representing the GSA, as its authority having jurisdiction, relative to fire protection issues in new and/or existing structures

  • Investigate fires within government owned or leased space and providing written reports as required/requested

  • Provide fire protection design services in the form of plans and specifications

 

Miscellaneous plan/shop drawing reviews and consultations which occurred under this contract include: Mega Control Center Shop Drawing Review; National Archives II Inergen System Review; JW Powell Building; Federal Lab Project; T. Roosevelt Building Plan Review; DOE HQs' Kitchen System Review; Mary Switzer Building; Construct Vault 1701, National Archives II Clean Agent & Fire Alarm Shop Drawing Review; and the Cohen Building 1st Floor Review.

 

Additional projects completed under this contract include:

  • Building Evaluation Reports, Various Locations: surveyed five buildings and reported on all fire protection systems and rated the findings

  • Washington National Records Center: performance of acceptance test of newly installed fire sprinkler system

  • Federal Office Building 10-A: functional testing of approximately 240 smoke detectors located throughout the building

  • HOLC Building, Federal Bureau of Prisons: functional testing of new fire alarm system throughout the building, including operational testing of all new devices, circuits, panels, batteries and other equipment

  • Mega Control Center: sprinkler acceptance testing

  • Elevator Hoistway Smoke Detector Study: researched code change that prohibits the installation of elevator hoistway smoke detectors unless the hoistway is sprinkler protected

  • Copper Fire Sprinkler Piping Study: researched pros/cons of copper piping in sprinkler systems; compared cost/life expectancy to steel piping