Lee Rigby of Vertical Assessment Associates on behalf of Hotel Indigo (VW 2005-167). The petition sought a waiver from Rules 2.1.3.1, 2.7.6, 2.18.5, 2.24.2.1, 2.24.2.2, and 2.20.1, A.S.M.E. 17.1, 2000 edition, as adopted by Chapter 3001.2, 2004 ...

DEPARTMENT OF BUSINESS AND PROFESSIONAL REGULATION
Division of Hotels and Restaurants

NOTICE IS HEREBY GIVEN that on February 09, 2006 The Bureau of Elevator Safety, it Issued an Order Granting Variance Request in response to a petition filed on November 11, 2006 and advertised in FAW Vol. 31, No. 49, received a petition for Lee Rigby of Vertical Assessment Associates on behalf of Hotel Indigo (VW 2005-167). The petition sought a waiver from Rules 2.1.3.1, 2.7.6, 2.18.5, 2.24.2.1, 2.24.2.2, and 2.20.1, A.S.M.E. 17.1, 2000 edition, as adopted by Chapter 3001.2, 2004 Florida Building Code. The petitioner requested to not have a machine room, to use 9.5-mm governor rope metal sheaves and drums lined with nonmetallic groove materials, sheaves with a minimum pitch diameter 40 times the diameter of the rope and to use aramid non-metallic ropes. The petition was granted as it was demonstrated that this new technology provided equivalent or greater safety than the present code.
A copy of the Petition for Variance or Waiver may be obtained by contacting: Agency Clerk, Department of Business and Professional Regulation, 1940, North Monroe Street, Tallahassee, Florida 32399-2202.