NFPA Conference & Expo

NFPA 20 Installation of Stationary Pumps for Fire Protection — Changes in the 2013 edition

Plumbing Engineer Magazine, one of our NFPA Conference & Expo media partners, published an article in a recent issue titled “NFPA 20 — Changes in the 2013 edition”.  If the 2013 edition of NFPA 20 Standard for the Installation of Stationary Pumps for Fire Protection will apply to your next pump-related project, fire protection engineers will find this article a helpful read. 

Of course, if you do have an upcoming project, a visit to June’s NFPA Conference & Expo in Chicago can put you in touch with all the leading pump and controller manufacturers, as well as code experts at the NFPA booth.  

NFPA 20 — Changes in the 2013 edition

By Samuel S. Dannaway, PE, President, S.S. Dannaway Associates, Inc., Honolulu

The next new standard up for us is the 2013 edition of NFPA 20 Standard for the Installation of Stationary Pumps for Fire Protection. Here are some of the changes I see as significant. Where paragraph numbers are cited they refer to those in the current 2010 edition of NFPA 20.

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Deadline extended: call for presentations for NFPA's Conference in Chicago due by 5:00 pm on Friday, Sept. 14

CALL FOR PRESENTATIONS -- EXTENDED
The 2013 NFPA Conference & Expo will be held June 10-13 in Chicago, IL. The call for presentations is now open. Deadline has been extended to Friday, September 14 at 5:00 pm (EST). Submit your presentation proposal.

Submissions emphasizing a specific product, process or manufacturer will not be considered. NFPA will review all presentation proposals. Selections will be made based on quality, relevance, focus, practical application, and on the presenter’s experience and credentials.

If your proposal is accepted, you will be required to submit a handout. Continuing education credits (CEUs) will be awarded for all education sessions. More details.

It's your conference and we want to hear from you.

Hi, my name is Erik Holden, and I manage the educational content for the C&E. Every year NFPA receives 300 to 400 proposals in response to our conference call for presentations. With all these great submissions, our review committee has a tough job selecting only 130 or so sessions to fill the schedule. For the 2013 conference, my goal is to make their job even more difficult, by working with all of you to come up with ways we could improve the conference. Tell me what you like about the conference and what you could do without. Tell me your ideas for new topics, delivery formats, and new technologies we could incorporate. Nothing is off limits.

My email is eholden@nfpa.org, or you can comment on this post below. I’ll also be at this year’s conference in Las Vegas, so look me up at the NFPA booth at the expo and we can talk.

Together, we can make the review committee’s job next to impossible.

- Erik Holden