Sprinkler Academy

10-Week Design Course - Jan 10-Mar 16, 2022

Type: 10-Week Design Course
Instructor: Cecil Bilbo
$8000.00


You can have a productive designer in 10 weeks. Graduates of the course will be able to lay out sprinklers and piping, and then calculate and stocklist an entire sprinkler system. And they will be able to do it using YOUR software.

Upon completion, your new employee will have the equivalent of one year of experience (depending on the student, maybe more).

This is an intense, accelerated course. Much like a Summer Semester in College. It will require students to use an entire 8-hour day to complete course work This will include lectures, lab time, and homework.

This 200-hour program is completely ONLINE. Lectures and Lab Time are conducted LIVE for 4 to 5 hours a day, five days a week.

The live online format means:

  • No travel costs
  • No time away from family
  • Attend classes from anywhere
  • Daily interaction with the instructors
  • Real training from the best teachers in the industry

Potential designers can be recruited in your area. They can then take the course in your office, or anywhere you think would be most beneficial.

WE DO NOT PROVIDE CANDIDATES FOR YOU!

We look forward to seeing you or your recruit in class!

Cost

The course is $8000.

Option: Pay in Installments

$3000 up front
$3000 before week 4
$2000 before week 7


Requirements

For this program, you will need to have the following:

  • A computer that is preloaded with the software your company uses for design work.
  • A camera and a microphone that can be used with your computer for classes.
  • A copy of the NFPA 13 standard.
  • A copy of the NFSA's Design Textbook, Layout, Detail and Calculation of Fire Sprinkler Systems (2nd Edition)

 

Registration

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Syllabus

Each of the SST classes are one week of instruction and learning.

ACADEMY 10-WEEK ACCELERATED DESIGN COURSE

Remember this is an intense training course. Much like College Summer Classes, they are accelerated and demand entire days of training, lab and homework!

Fire Sprinkler Designer Curriculum

WEEK ONE (SST 101)

Introductions and Expectations

Our Industry

Codes and Standards

Types of Sprinklers

Types of Systems

Materials and Components

 

WEEK TWO (SST 102)

Hazards

Plans and Blueprints

Specs

Sprinkler Location and Position

Coverage Areas for Pendent, Upright and Sidewall

Spacing Pendent and Uprights

 

WEEK THREE (SST 103)

Week One and Two Review

Small Room Rule

Spacing Sidewalls

Spacing EC’s

Obstruction Rules

Project #1

Project Spec’s

Sprinkler and Piping Layout

 

WEEK FOUR (SST 104)

System Risers

Water Supplies

Calc Intro

Lesson

 

WEEK FIVE (SST 105)

Calc Project #1

Calc Project Using Software

Project meetings, files, forms and RFI’s

Project Submittals

Project Submittals Review

 

WEEK SIX (SST 106)

Pipes, Fittings and Cut Lengths

Numbering Mains and Branchlines

Stocklisting by hand

Listing Mains and Branchlines

Listing Loose Materials

Stocklisting on the Computer

Stocklisting the Project Hangers

 

WEEK SEVEN (SST 107)

Project #2 Layout, Calc and Submittal

Fabrication List and Fab Exercise

Installation Plans and Installation Exercise

 

WEEK EIGHT (SST 108)

Residential Sprinklers

CPVC Pipe and fittings

CPVC Fab Exercise

Concealed Spaces

Other Special Situations

Dry Systems

 

WEEK NINE (SST 109)

Project #4 Layout, Calc, and Submit

Project #5 , Layout and Calc

Complicated Remote Areas

 

WEEK TEN (SST 110)

Standpipes

Combined Standpipe and Sprinkler System

Standpipe Project

 

Final Exam & Assessments