Navigate the high-rise sprinkler ordinance with confidence.
Evaluation, options analysis, design, and a defensible budget number your board can plan reserves around.
What Ordinance 18-14 means for your building.
Honolulu's fire-safety ordinance requires older residential high-rises that did not pass a life-safety evaluation to either achieve compliance or commit to installing fire sprinklers, with installation completed on a phased deadline. Hundreds of Oʻahu buildings are weighing this now — and the pressure grows every year.
- Who it affects: pre-1975 residential high-rises without a passing life-safety evaluation
- What's required: compliance or a committed sprinkler-retrofit plan
- Why now: phased deadlines and rising retrofit demand across the island
Deadlines and requirements should be confirmed against current City & County of Honolulu publications for your specific building.
A clear path from uncertainty to a number you can budget.
Evaluation
Assess your building's status against the ordinance and life-safety criteria.
Options analysis
Compare compliance paths and retrofit approaches with tradeoffs spelled out.
Design
Engineer the sprinkler system and prepare the permit-ready documents.
Budget number
A defensible cost basis your board can plan reserves and assessments around.
The 2030 sprinkler decision: what every Oʻahu AOAO board needs to know.
A plain-language explainer your board and property manager can actually use. Enter your email and we'll send it over.
Sprinkler-ordinance questions.
Older residential high-rises that haven't passed a life-safety evaluation must either comply or commit to a fire-sprinkler retrofit, completed on a phased timeline. We evaluate your specific building and lay out the options. Confirm current deadlines with the City & County of Honolulu.
It varies by building height, layout, and existing infrastructure. Our process produces a defensible budget number your board can use for reserve planning and owner communication — before you commit.
Absolutely. We regularly coordinate with property managers and boards, and we provide documentation that's easy to circulate to owners for decisions and assessments.