Uniformat D5030

Fire alarm control panel

Also called FACP, fire panel, fire alarm

• Confidence C
• Version 0.3.0 (permanent link)
• Reviewed 2026-10-22

This is version 0.3.0. The latest is 0.4.0.

Service life

Years in service. The band runs from the shortest to the longest life the sources state, so it shows how much they disagree, not how long 80% of units last. The line is the median of the stated lives.

Basis

• 15 years · CNA e-Tool Estimated Useful Life Table, p15 · HUD CNA 3.6.2.7 “Smoke and fire detection system, central panel” — U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (planning life)
  Same life for family and elderly properties. US multifamily housing.
• 25 years · Meaford: By-law 2020-83, Tangible Capital Asset Policy, Appendix A Estimated Useful Lives, p17 · “Fire Protection - Alarm Panel” (accounting life)
  Capital asset policy (amortization period). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 20 years · The Blue Mountains: POL.COR.19.04 Tangible Capital Assets Policy, p11 · “Fire Alarms” (accounting life)
  Capital asset policy (amortization period). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 20 years · Grey Highlands: By-law No. 2026-052, Tangible Capital Asset Policy A09-F-03, p11 · “Fire Alarms” (accounting life)
  Capital asset policy (amortization period). Approved on text check: the label and value were found on the cited page.
• 20 years · General depreciation rates (IR265), July 2021, p43 · BDFO “Alarm systems (fire)” — Inland Revenue (Te Tari Taake), New Zealand (accounting life)
  Printed page 43. Fire alarm system; the panel is the core of the system (detectors have their own rows). BDFO Building fit-out (when in books separately from building cost). Printed DV 10%, SL 7%. Tax depreciation lives set by the Commissioner of Inland Revenue for New Zealand income tax, not engineering or asset-management lives; they are banded and often short (e.g. reticulation piping 25 years). The July 2021 edition was the newest PDF reachable; the online Depreciation Rate Finder may hold later determinations.

How sources are chosen and recorded: sourcing policy.

Preventive maintenance

10 tasks in 3 work orders. Intervals that fall due together are one visit: the every 2 years visit also covers the monthly and annual tasks.

1. 1Monthly
2. 2Monthly
3. 3Monthly
4. 4Monthly
5. 5Monthly
6. 6Monthly
7. 7Monthly
8. 8Monthly
9. 9Monthly
10. 10Monthly
11. 11Monthly
12. 12Annual

Months from the schedule start. Download the tasks as CSV for a CMMS, or ask the MCP tool get_pm_schedule for dated visits.

Frequencies are ISO 8601 durations in the data (P3M = every 3 months).

Open questions

• Every source here is a published planning, design or accounting life. None is observed replacement data.

Know the answer? Send it with a source to [email protected].

Cite this

Citation

unfinished.one (2026). Fire alarm control panel, v0.3.0. https://unfinished.one/c/fire-alarm-panel/v/0.3.0

BibTeX

@misc{unfinished_fire_alarm_panel_0_3_0,
  title = {Fire alarm control panel},
  author = {{unfinished.one}},
  year = {2026},
  version = {0.3.0},
  url = {https://unfinished.one/c/fire-alarm-panel/v/0.3.0},
  note = {CC BY 4.0}
}

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