The Grand Parking
Garage is a 11 storied building of fire resistive
construction. There are offices on the 1st
floor and parking facilities on the remaining floors. There are two exits from each floor. Exiting
on the North end is through an enclosed stairwell
which discharges into the 1st floor lobby. The
South exit stairwell is open and discharges onto Paca Street.
Office
areas on the North end of the first floor are fully
sprinkled with a dry pipe
sprinkler system.
Standpipes are dry with hose
valves in stairwells on each level. Fire
department connections are located on the Paca Street
side on the SW corner of the building and on the Fayette
Street side of the building. Knox caps have been
installed on the fire department connection to prevent
vandalism.
Portable fire extinguisher's are
located throughout the facility.
Grand Parking Garage office area at the North end of
the first floor is equipped with an interior fire
alarm system consisting of manual pull stations, smoke detectors, audible/visual
devices, sprinkler flow switches, and valve supervisory switches interconnected
to the Pine Street
Police Station. No other alarm system exists in the garage.
Fire Department apparatus has access to three sides
of the building, Paca Street, Fayette Street, and an
alley on the South side.
Knox Boxes have been installed in
the South elevator lobby and entrance to the office area
next to the fire alarm panel with keys for elevators, mechanical areas,
electric areas, storage rooms and fire alarm panels to be used by the
fire department as needed.
A key for the Knox FDC caps is
also located in the Knox Box in the South Elevator Lobby.
This building is classified as a Business (offices)
and storage occupancy
(Parking Garage) |
