Johnson Controls SLC bidding report
Here is a report of some of the projects that Johnson Controls Fire Protection is bidding or was looking at and why we may not be bidding those projects.
Larry.Love@jci.com blog by Larry Love at JCI
Larry is an employee of Johnson Controls Fire Protection.
The Children’s Center Utah TCCU core and shell RFI sent on 1/24/2025 this bids on 1/28/2025 This project is in Lehi Utah 84034 on N Holbrook way. We will bid this with an ADD ALT 1 to add a WP Horn Strobe outside the riser room. We also suggest that in the riser room that we provide 5 Monitor modules instead of 4 to account for a flow, 2 tampers and 2 backflows. The required pull station is missing so we will include that in our ADD ALT as well. The specification is on page 314 Spectrum is the PE Engineer. We are bidding this project with Simplex Fire Alarm.
We were requested to bid BDO Depot 311 although the specifications require it be a Farenhyt system by Honeywell so we cannot bid this project. I sent out an RFI asking to be approved to bid. The Engineer is Colvin Engineering and the plans are not complete. Notification is not shown, There appear to be 7 Air handlers over 2000 cfm, we could not find any Fire Smoke Dampers on the mechanical. We recommend that the notification be ceiling mounted High Candela Horn Strobes. The drawing shows 2 tampers and a flow although most likely you will have 2 backflows and I bet more than just the one flow and two tampers with such a large building.
Carters in Lehi - I visited this project on 1/22/25 and found a NOTIFIER fire alarm system in the building. This means that the GC and ECs should call Mountain Alarm for bids. Fire Protection Services is the same as Mountain Alarm. No other fire alarm brand should be added to this since Mountain Alarm installed this system in the main building. The GC is Loberg.
Aspen Dental in Spanish Fork will bid on February 12 2025 and I sent an RFI to ACT Construction 1/23/2025 asking about items missing from the fire alarm system if you are interested in this please email me at the address above. This building may have an existing fire alarm system that will need to be added on and we need to know this in order to bid it properly. The WP Horn Strobe was missing from the riser room, there is no FACP shown and now smoke at the FACP and several patient rooms are missing strobes and the break room is missing a horn strobe.
Vision Works Jordan Landing - This project is specified to be done by Certified Fire so we won’t bid this
Nira Medical - There is a design build fire alarm contractor on this could not get a firm answer on fire alarm plans.
Gameshop - The plans state no fire alarm is required and it is not sprinkled although there are fire alarm devices shown on the plans so it may have an existing system. RFI was sent.
Rocky Mountain Power ESB - Plans are not designed to code and much is lacking so this will become a design build project. We may not have the time to design this project so we may bid if we have time to put it together. This was extended to Feb 4.
Pickler with Kramer Construction - This has an existing fire alarm system and I could not get an answer as to what brand although the preferred Fire Alarm company is AAA Fire for this one.
FedEx Warehouse we sent an RFI out on this one because there are items missing from the plans so it will meet code. We intend on bidding as per plans and we will include an ADD ALT to bring it up to code.
Lehi Lofts addendum came out 1/14 although it did not affect the fire alarm and we bid this out previously
Texas Instruments BE 24144-1 - Johnson Controls Fire Protection can not bid this project because it is flat specified with EST only which is an Edward product. Call an EST dealer for this project. Convergint is one of the companies that does EST
ROSS TI with Stout - This is a Firelite fire alarm so call one of the dealers that does FireLite such as Mountain Alarm or Peak Alarm. There is a long list of companies that sell Firelite
SWTHZ TI from Gramoll Construction We are not bidding this project since there is no fire alarm plans or specifications. We will bid projects on a design build basis when we have time. Most of the time we charge to do fire alarm designs since our techs are NICET certified.
Central Bank in Springville - We are looking at bidding this project. We have sent out an RFI and we plan on bidding this as per plans with an ADD ALT to bring the system up to code.
Carters in Lehi by Loberg Construction - The Electrical Contractor on this job is specified as Taylor Electric. This system has an existing fire alarm and we have sent an RFI requesting what that is back on the 15th although we have not heard back yet and the note says to tie into the existing FA system so we cannot bid this unless it is a Simplex Fire Alarm system and even then we need the model number and we would visit the site if it is a Simplex system to determine what would be needed and required.
Tracker Supply appears to have a Fire Alarm contractor and a low voltage contractor although set up through the owner.