ABSTRACT
Standards for Buildings, Networks, and Other Infrastructure It was once said that there is only one kind of disaster, the messy kind. If any of you has ever had water, for example, in a place in your building where it did not belong, that’s pretty messy. One example that comes immediately to mind for me is a client we had whose cable risers had metal mesh floors (that opened from one floor up and down to adjoining floors) and which also contained water pipes. To add to this issue, the cable risers were also adjacent to the restrooms. We cited this issue in an audit, not so much because of the pipes, but because if one of the restroom toilets backed up, the water only really had one place to go: straight down the riser. (Sharon and I have seven children. Every child backs up a toilet at least three times in its life. erefore, with firsthand experience of 21 such episodes, we had a high degree of sensitivity to this issue.) All kidding aside, we determined that water could be a problem for this client.
