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What does the revision aim to
accomplish?
It's basically to make it more consistent
with the ASME code for elevators, so
there are no inconsistencies between
NFPA 72 and ASME. Many of the proposed revisions to NFPA 72 are based
on the real-life experiences from one of
the San Francisco projects and also on
the ASME task group work for OEO.
Do you think OEEs will become
more common in the future?
Yes. Right now, all kinds of new technologies and innovations are being
developed for elevators. More are
coming all the time. We can't stop the
vertical transportation technology
from developing, so we have to ensure
as much as we can the safety of these
elevators. That's what we're trying to
do with all the fire and elevator safety
codes: make sure that if something
happens, building occupants and firefighters can use elevators safely. As cities
become overcrowded and people build
these towers, they're going to try to condense as much usable space in them as
possible, and they will try to push OEEs
into many of these new towers.
During your C&E talk, audience
members had a lot of questions.
Some of them seemed like they
didn't have faith in OEEs. Is there a
lot of concern out there?
It's scary. Nobody's done a complete
OEE system before. We're going to
make sure it does what it's supposed
to do. Hopefully we never have to use
it. It's basically the concept of replacing a passive system like stairs with a
very, very complicated, computerized,
mechanical, electronic system, so a lot
of things can fail. If you have an earthquake, for example, and the building
shakes, it might put all the elevators
out of service at the same time. Now
what do you do? We're doing all this
analysis assuming everything works
with no problems. People are worried
about this. That's why I think having
occupant evacuation elevators as additions to, not in lieu of, an extra stair is
the right thing to do. It'd make me feel
a lot better.
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