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Fire Alarm Inspection Process
| Contractor or Supplier Action or Requirement | Inspection or Procedure Required |
|---|---|
| Must have University of Arizona Fire Marshall approved Fire Alarm Shop Drawings. | Must have pre-installation meeting with UA/FM Fire Safety. |
| Install all Fire Alarm raceway and junction boxes. | Must have PDC electrical inspection before proceeding. |
| Device layout inspection. | Must have UA/FM Fire Safety and Risk Management. |
| Receive Fire Alarm wiring and splicing class. | Must receive this before proceeding. |
| Install and pull all fire alarm wire. All loops must be wired thru to check integrity. | Must have UA/FM Fire Safety inspection before proceeding. |
| Meter all loops from Fire Alarm Panel box to check for opens, shorts, crossed circuits, and ground faults on all wiring. | Must have UA/FM Fire Safety electrical inspection before proceeding. |
| Receive device addresses printed on drawings from Fire Alarm supplier. | Must receive this before proceeding. |
| Install/connect all Fire Alarm devices for this project, to include pulls,smokes, heats, ducts, a/v's, v/o's, horns, bells, sprinkler monitors, all shutdown connections, and any other Fire Alarm related equipment. | Must have UA/FM Fire Safety electrical inspection before proceeding. |
| Meter all loops from Fire Alarm Panel box to check for opens, shorts, crossed circuits, and ground faults on all wiring. | Must have UA/FM Fire Safety inspection before proceeding. |
| Have Fire Alarm supplier install panel components and land field wiring, and trim out panel.Provide UofA with signal circuit loads,total stand by load and alarm load calculations. | Must have UA/FM Fire Safety electrical inspection before proceeding. |
| Fire alarm supplier must provide proposed control software and device/circuit labels to UofA Fire Safety for approval before installation of software in Fire Alarm Control Panel. | Must receive approval from Fire Safety before proceeding. |
| Contractor and supplier must successfully complete a NFPA 72 | |
| test before calling for a UA/FM Fire Safety, contractor and | Provide copy of contractor / supplier NFPA 72 test to PDC to call for |
| supplier NFPA 72 test to start commissioning run. | UofA NFPA 72 test. |
| Contractor, supplier and UA/FM Fire Safety must successfully complete a NFPA 72 test before the five day commissioning run will start. | A NFPA 72 test witnessed by UA/FM Fire Safety must be completed with no deviations before starting commissioning run. |
| After the successful completion of the commissioning run, then the University of Arizona Fire Marshall test can occur. | UA/FM Fire Safety will confirm the commissioning run has completed with no troubles, supervisories or alarms. |