Being thoroughly prepared can help you with high-rise life safety retrofits.
One might ask, “How old is this building?” A seemingly irrelevant question is at the front of continuing debate as our major cities age and buildings are expected to meet minimum safety requirements.
Existing high-rise commercial and residential buildings continue to be “grandfathered out” of evolving life safety compliance codes. Therefore, unless they have undergone a major renovation, such facilities do not typically have full fire sprinkler and fire alarm systems.