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Committee sends revised static damper language to full council after stakeholder edits
Summary
A BFRW standing committee voted to forward a revised proposal on static ceiling radiation dampers — including five acceptable shutdown methods and a 500 CFM limit for local systems — to the full council for rulemaking, after proponents incorporated stakeholder feedback and model-code changes from ICC 2027.
The BFRW standing committee voted to send a revised code proposal on static ceiling radiation dampers to the full council with a recommendation to file it in the CR102 rulemaking process.
The committee chair noted that proponent Eric VanderMee of Delta E Consulting worked with stakeholders to revisit the draft after changes at the ICC/IECC level, and the group agreed to new language that narrows the scope of several shutdown exceptions and adds five acceptable methods for shutting down systems that use static ceiling radiation dampers.
Why it matters: the proposal clarifies when static ceiling radiation dampers may be installed and how HVAC systems that include them must respond in the event of fire. The changes align Washington-specific language with recent 2027 model-code committee actions and remove three 2024-model-code exceptions the group judged unnecessary.
The proposal applies to fire dampers and ceiling radiation…
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