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Brand-new fire station in Germany burns down as it had no fire alarms
(www.euronews.com)
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There are, but do you know who checks that a building is OK? Take a guess.
Building inspectors
No. This always comes back to the electrical engineer under the IBC (unless specifically authorized by a govt official usually a Fire Marshal, an inspector doesn't actually have the authority), and the building should have had detectors in the sleeping quarters regardless of any other factors. I wouldn't want to be the engineer on this project, even if they had correct drawing per IBC that were overruled. It's going to be bad for them either way.
Unfortunately the article doesn't specify the "experts". Whoever signed that dotted line is pretty much screwed.
Geoff?