Makeoff found that 193 flags, averaging $13,936 apiece, occur in the fire alarm section rather than anywhere electrical.
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The electrical drawings say NIC. A sentence on page 140 of the spec says it's yours. Fire alarm is the scope that gets handed back to the electrical contractor more than…
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Makeoff's AHJ reading of the emergency system classification states that once a conduit goes vertical, it carries two-hour survivability.
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Makeoff combined the exposure from fire alarm scope and strobe and notification coverage to find $8.5M of exposure in its dataset, sitting on a line most estimators have already written off.
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Makeoff looked at 727 real takeoffs and found that fire alarm scope got flagged 802 times across 373 of them, with an average exposure per flag of $11,050.
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