Is a fire damper required at that penetration?
An internal mechanical review. The question has exactly one right owner, so it goes straight to him rather than stopping the room.
The Owner accepts the output. It may be relied upon within the limits the Owner states, and subject to any approval the profile requires.
- Engineer of record
- Midhun — code. Is a fire damper required where that supply duct crosses the corridor wall?
Code - Midhun
- Heard — check whether the corridor wall rating forces a damper at that penetration. Midhun, on it.
claim - Midhun
- Prompting now: for the corridor wall assembly on the level two plans, determine the required rating and whether a duct penetration at that location requires a fire damper, and cite the sections.
prompting - Midhun
- Finished. Running.
finished - (the review continues through the rest of the level two sheets)
- Midhun
- Back with it. Preliminary: the corridor is rated, so the penetration needs a damper, and the general notes on the mechanical plans already call for it. This wants your read before it goes back to the contractor.
preliminary - Engineer of record
- Good. That is the answer of record — send it.
accepted
Nobody else in the room acknowledged, and nobody needed to. Naming Midhun before the call type told everyone at once that this was not a question for them, which is the whole point: a room practising the loop should not have to choose between stopping five people for a question that concerns one of them, and stepping outside the protocol and losing the record. Everything after the call is unchanged — he still restated, still spoke the prompt aloud, still labelled the result preliminary, and the engineer of record still closed it.