Larry Keeping
Mr. Keeping has a Ba Sc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Toronto and is a Professional Engineer in the Provinces of Ontario, Saskatchewan, North West Territories and Nunavut. Mr. Keeping is a Professional Engineer with over 40 years of experience in sprinkler system plus other water-based fire protection systems design. Previously in his career, Mr. Keeping worked as a designer, a design manager, and for many years he served in the position of Corporate Engineer for a national sprinkler contractor. He has acted as a consultant on technical issues and fire protection codes and standards for engineers, architects, insurance representatives and building/fire department officials. Mr. Keeping is actively NFPA Technical Committees for NFPA Standards 25 (Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance of Water-Based Fire Protection Systems), NFPA 13 (Sprinkler System Installation Criteria and Sprinkler System Discharge Criteria) and NFPA 24 (Private Water Services).
When I first started learning about sprinkler design, I was using the then current 1972 edition of National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 13 . That was the first version of the standard that had...
The concept of Miscellaneous Storage was first introduced in the 1991 edition of NFPA 13, the Standard for the Installation of Sprinkler Systems, but still seems to be widely misunderstood, even...
