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CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL | Return to Portfolio Index

This is a new 12-story medical office and laboratories for the Centers for Disease Control. The building is an all-steel structure with concrete floors and pre-cast exterior panels. There are coffered ceilings throughout augmented by concealed type sprinklers, along with recessed and other types of sprinkler styles. The skeleton of the fire sprinkler system is a 750 GPM @ 115 PSI fire pump supplying two vertical standpipes. The system also incorporates the addition of auxiliary dry pipe sprinkler systems and pre-action sprinkler systems. The building itself is parabolic in shape that made design and installation of the sprinkler system a challenge in being able to conform to the building curvature.