Fire Alarm Systems

To avoid delays in your fire alarm plan review, please include all of the following:

  • Fire alarm system plans (i.e., shop drawings) drawn to a standard, indicated engineering or architectural scale and submitted in PDF format
  • The stamp/seal and original signature of a Colorado-licensed professional engineer
  • Floor plan with room use descriptions
  • Interior elevations or cross-section plans (showing ceiling heights and any special architectural design features)
  • Manufacturers’ specification sheets (i.e., “cut sheets”) on all equipment that is to be installed as part of the system
  • Battery calculations
  • Clearly identified locations and types of all initiating appliances to be installed
  • Clearly identified locations and types of all notification appliances to be installed
  • Clearly identified locations of alarm panels, remote annunciators, NACs, and power extender panels
  • Explanation and/or illustration of how alarms will be annunciated on site, including details of any remote annunciators and of all graphic zone maps
  • Sequence of operations