Renovation of a mixed-use development in Robertsdale, Alabama. Completed plans call for the renovation of a municipal facility.

A. This section of the specification includes the furnishing, installation, connection and testing of fire alarm equipment required to form a complete, operative, coordinated system. It shall include, but not be limited to, alarm initiating devices, alarm notification appliances, Fire Alarm Control Panel (FACP), auxiliary control devices, annunciators, and wiring as shown on the drawings and specified herein. B. The fire alarm system shall comply with requirements of NFPA 72 The National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code- 2010 Edition, and Local Code and Ordinance except as modified and supplemented by this specification. The system shall be electrically supervised and monitor the integrity of all conductors. C. The system and its components shall be Underwriters Laboratories, Inc. listed under the appropriate UL testing standard as listed herein for fire alarm applications and the installation and equipment used shall be in compliance with the UL listing. E. The installing company shall be licensed by the Contracting Board of the State of Alabama as a Fire Alarm Contractor, hold a Class A License from the State Fire Marshal, and employ an alarm technician certified by NICET with a minimum Level 3 Fire Alarm Technology. The installing contractor shall provide a certificate of factory training in the fire alarm system provided. A. Provide a complete, non-proprietary, electrically supervised, addressable intelligent, manual and automatic, Supervising Station Fire Alarm System throughout the work area as shown on the drawings. The system will be in compliance with the required and advisory portions of NFPA 72 National Fire Alarm Code, the UL listings or Factory Mutual approvals, the ADA, and recommendations of the equipment manufacturer except as modified herein. The fire alarm system will include manual stations, system smoke detectors, horns, visual alarms, and remote monitoring. The FACP will be capable of handling a minimum of 50 individually identified sensors within the main control panel. Audio visual devices will be provided in all common areas as defined by ADA to include a weatherproof audio visual device one on the exterior of the building at or near the Fire Department Connection for the Sprinkler System. Monitoring shall include supervision of isolation valves and shut off valves for the existing sprinkler system flow and tamper switches. Sprinkler flow shall initiate notification throughout the work area. Activation of tamper switches on the sprinkler system shall annunciate tamper conditions on the work area FACP. Activation of initiating devices in the work area will only provide notification in the work area. B. Basic Performance: 1. Alarm, trouble and supervisory signals from all intelligent reporting devices shall be encoded on NFPA Style 4 (Class B) Signaling Line Circuits (SLC). 2. Initiation Device Circuits (IDC) shall be wired Class B (NFPA Style A) as part of an addressable device connected by the SLC Circuit. 3. Notification Appliance Circuits (NAC) shall be wired Class B (NFPA Style Y) as part of an addressable device connected by the SLC Circuit. 4. 5.Alarm signals arriving at the FACP shall not be lost following a primary power failure (or outage) until the alarm signal is processed and recorded. C. BASIC SYSTEM FUNCTIONAL OPERATION When a fire alarm condition is detected and reported by one of the system initiating devices, the following functions shall immediately occur: 1. The system alarm LED on the system display shall flash. 2. A local piezo electric signal in the control panel shall sound. 3. A backlit LCD display shall indicate all information associated with the fire alarm condition, including the type of alarm point and its location within the protected premises. 4. Printing and history storage equipment shall log the information associated each new fire alarm control panel condition, along with time and date of occurrence. 5. All system output programs assigned via control-by-event interlock programming to be activated by the particular point in alarm shall be executed, and the associated system outputs (notification appliances and/or relays) shall be activated.