ROBB COHEN/AP WIDE WORLD VIEWPOINTS ON FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY Knowing how time-consuming a project like that is going to be, what was your department's reaction to the plans being revealed? For the most part we were excited about it. We knew that it was going to strain our division, but we were up for the challenge for sure. There were some growing pains and some challenges, but I think overall it ended up going very well. The challenge really was completing this project in two-and-a-half years. In working with the Braves, what sort of fire protection measures have been included in the stadium? From a design perspective, it became much less complicated when the Braves agreed to sprinkler the building, even in certain areas where codes would not have required that. The concourses, for example-because they were considered open, they were not required to be sprinklered as a result of the engineering analysis that was conducted. But early in the process the Braves made the decision to N F PA . O R G / J O U R N A L * NFPA JOURNAL | 49http://nfpa.org/journal