10121 EVERGREEN WAY BASE FILE 2025-08-05

Drew Martin From: Drew Martin Sent: Friday, July 28, 2023 9:42 AM To: Scott Harris Subject: City of Everett Permit Services: 10121 Evergreen Way (B2306-064) - First Building Review Good morning, Scott. This review briefly recaps our telephone conversation for this project. We have completed the first review of the building plans for this project. This email will serve as the review letter. The comments below should be addressed. We had discussed providing new details to tape in. That said, we do have a printer here for full-sized sheets. I think it will be easier to print two new full-size sheets (i.e., Sheets A-103 & A-801). Please let me know if this is acceptable to you. These can be emailed directly to me. Note that if more sheets are impacted, two complete sets of building drawings should be submitted to our office. These sets only need to include the architectural and structures sheets; other disciplines may be omitted. Note for the following comments that the north arrow (i.e., pointing towards the top of the page) in the Site Plan on Sheet A-000 appears most correct. The directional references are based on this rather than the arrow in the framing plans. Comments Architectural: 1. The "Building Code Information" section on Sheet A-000 appears to state that either sprinkler and fire alarms systems are existing or will be provided. Based on a review of the building and record documents, it does not appear that either system is existing. If this is an error in the drawings, please confirm that these items should be redlined to state "NO". Otherwise, clarify the intended construction. The existing fire -rating of the west demising wall is not clear from the historical record. It appears that this wall possibly should have been a rated wall to separate the A-2 and B spaces (formerly A-3 and B-3, respectively, per the 1980's UBC codes). It is noted that while the A-2 is in a compartmentalized area enclosed by two-hour "area separation" walls with parapets projecting above the roof, it does not appear to be separated from the B- occupancies within this area, nor does this area appear to be sprinklered. Existing walls being repaired are not required to be upgraded to current code per the IEBC if they were correctly constructed per the code under which they were originally permitted. However, it is not clear that the original construction was code - compliant. We recommend reviewing the existing construction for this wall and the original code requirements, and designing any repairs including upgrades as appropriate. Details for any proposed fire -rated construction should include references to listed tested assemblies per IBC Section 703.3. The south "area separation" wall is a two-hour rated wall per the original construction drawings. A detail should be provided including a reference to a listed tested assembly per IBC Section 703.3. Note that this wall appears to be continuous through the roof structure. The continuity detail if provided should be designed accordingly. Please contact me if you have questions. Thank you.