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By Robert Oliver, SET, CFPS, GROL — Fire Alarm Systems REO Life Safety Consulting, LLC If you've ever had an AHJ kick back a fire alarm submittal, you know the feeling. The project is on schedule, the contractor is ready to rough in, and then the rejection lands — and suddenly you're looking at weeks of redesign, resubmittal, and a CO date that just moved. Most of those rejections are preventable. After nearly 30 years in the fire alarm and life safety industry — including ti

There is a divide in the fire alarm and life safety industry. While policies are being funded and influenced by insurance companies and manufacturers, integrators and builders are trying to keep up. Building owners are faced with the expense of complying with codes that are open to interpretation by anyone involved. Anytime a quote is requested for a project, the integrator uses their preferred product line and each one of those lines create a different launch point for pr