Big Stakes for Building Owners and Industry – Weigh In!
Expensive lighting protection and conduit requirements are key issues The Broward County Board of Rules and Appeals (BORA) BDA Committee held a virtual meeting on Monday, March 29th, where they presented the latest updates to their BORA rules and guidelines pertaining to BDA’s. Industry must provide feedback to avert expensive overreach in the areas of lightning protection and conduit requirements. In addition to the BDA rules discussion, presentations were also made regarding:
Full agenda can be downloaded here: https://www.broward.org/CodeAppeals/Documents/March%2029%2c%202021.pdf The Good News Under the leadership of Chair David Rice, and supported by the rest of the BDA Committee, Broward has led the way and a whole lot of good has been accomplished through their efforts. There is a fair amount of sausage-grinding and public input needed to get the guidelines correct. Again, the committee led by Chair David Rice can be commended for conducting a fully transparent, public process to arrive at the best possible outcome. This is where your involvement is key. Read on. BORA Guideline Feedback Sought We Urge Feedback to remove NFPA 780 Lightning Protection from Broward Guidelines Current code points to NFPA 780, which is a very expansive requirement that was inserted into fire code in error. This has been corrected in upcoming editions of the code, but since Florida is operating on 2016 code, this correction has not been realized yet. Please read this month’s accompanying article on NFPA 780 HERE |