(CHRISTIAN FAITH CENTER) (DRH18-00317) A fire sprinkler system will be installed in conjunction with this permit and is used for building area increase, for fire flow, and for occupancy. Interior nonstructural demolition work was done under permit BLD18-02897. To remodel an existing 12,023 square foot building and convert it to a church (11,431 square feet inside and 592 square feet below the canopy). This tenant space is not approved as a child daycare facility. The sanctuary will have a total floor area of about 4,073 square feet (2,687 square feet seating area, 753 square feet platform, 144 square feet sound platform, 218 square feet storage, 220 square feet ramp, and 51 square feet interior walls) and an occupant load of 357 (305 chairs, 1 sound, 1 storage, and 50 platform). The new 24 inch high platform will be served by stairways and a ramp. The new 24 inch high sound platform will be served by a stairway. Work is to include cripple walls to support the platform floors, platform sheathing, platform bracing walls and panels, a new interior 2 inch thick concrete topping slab over the existing slab on grade, a new exterior concrete sidewalk, interior nonbearing walls, furred and insulated exterior walls, two multi-user toilet rooms accessible to the disabled, three single-user toilet rooms accessible to the disabled (one per child dimensions), interior doors, interior windows, a warming kitchen with a range and hood, suspended acoustical ceilings, suspended gypsum board ceilings, gypsum board ceilings, foil-scrim-kraft vapor retarder, millwork, and finishes. Cooking operations that create grease laden vapors are not allowed within this building. An existing double leaf exterior doorway will be partially filled in with masonry and a new single leaf door will be installed. Structural work to the existing building includes concrete footings, steel columns, steel beam, and steel glu-lam beam hangers. Two existing columns will be removed. Special Inspection is required for anchors post-installed in hardened concrete and for welding. The work is required to comply with the approved drawings, with the structural design, with the plan review report, and with all applicable codes and ordinances. The fire sprinkler system is required to comply with NFPA 13 and the fire alarm system is required to comply with NFPA 72 as regulated by the Fire Department. Separate fire sprinkler permits and fire alarm permits shall be obtained prior to beginning any modification or installation work on such systems. **CJW**