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People keep talking about sprinklers in a stadium having over 100k. Stop. That is one of the dumbest things i have heard on this site. Local building codes that require wet pipe/dry pipe/ or any other sprinkler coverage for fire protection have no bearing on what LSU will decide on numbers. There is already fire protection in the conssesion areas and other areas throughout TS (suites, Elevator shafts, offices and locker rooms). The decision to add 200 seats or 200,000 seats won't make a difference on fire protection coverage. If you built a new upper deck to outer space and it held 2.5. Billion people, you wouldn't need a "sprinkler system". Any occupied areas are required to have fire protection and I'm pretty sure these are being built for the suites and not the seats on top further dis proving this theory.

this isn't entirely true. though im not familiar (off top of head) with specifics of codes relating to large open air assembly spaces - there are definitely times when owners avoid a certain design option because it would result in very expensive retrofitting of an existing building with sprinklers and sprinkler piping.

it is true that occupied spaces must have some type of fire protection, but this is typically within a large "sliding scale" of options. For example, if a building has sprinklers, then it may be allowed to have a greater square footage than what would otherwise be allowed. Or if a building has a sprinkler system, it may be allowed to have a higher overall height than what would otherwise be allowed. Or, if a building has a sprinkler system, the permissible length of a dead end corridor is longer than what would otherwise be allowed. that are many examples.

im not sure if this has anything to do with the decision for Tiger Stadium addition to be at 99,500 - but it is true that sprinkler system requirements definitely do, at times, cause architects to pursue some other design solution (because the owner does not want to pay the cost).