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.