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Preface
About the Editors
PART ONE
Life Safety Code® and
Commentary
1 Administration
1.1 Scope
1.2 Purpose
1.3
Application
1.4
Equivalency
1.5 Units and
Formulas
1.6
Enforcement
2 Referenced
Publications
2.1 General
2.2 NFPA
Publications
2.3 Other
Publications
2.4
References for Extracts in Mandatory Sections
3 Definitions 19
3.1 General
3.2 NFPA
Official Definitions
3.3 General
Definitions
4 General
4.1 Goals
4.2
Objectives
4.3
Assumptions
4.4 Life
Safety Compliance Options
4.5
Fundamental Requirements
4.6 General
Requirements
4.7 Fire
Drills
4.8 Emergency
Plan
5 Performance-Based
Option
5.1 General
Requirements
5.2
Performance Criteria
5.3 Retained
Prescriptive Requirements
5.4 Design
Specifications and Other Conditions
5.5 Design
Fire Scenarios
5.6
Evaluation of Proposed Designs
5.7 Safety
Factors
5.8
Documentation Requirements
6 Classification of
Occupancy and Hazard of Contents
6.1
Classification of Occupancy
6.2 Hazard of
Contents
7 Means of Egress
7.1 General
7.2 Means of
Egress Components
7.3 Capacity
of Means of Egress
7.4 Number of
Means of Egress
7.5
Arrangement of Means of Egress
7.6
Measurement of Travel Distance to Exits
7.7 Discharge
from Exits
7.8
Illumination of Means of Egress
7.9 Emergency
Lighting
7.10 Marking
of Means of Egress
7.11 Special
Provisions for Occupancies with High Hazard Contents
7.12
Mechanical Equipment Rooms, Boiler Rooms, and Furnace Rooms
8 Features of Fire
Protection
8.1 General
8.2
Construction and Compartmentation
8.3 Fire
Barriers
8.4 Smoke
Partitions
8.5 Smoke
Barriers
8.6 Vertical
Openings
8.7 Special
Hazard Protection
9 Building Service and
Fire Protection Equipment
9.1 Utilities
9.2 Heating,
Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning
9.3 Smoke
Control
9.4
Elevators, Escalators, and Conveyors
9.5 Rubbish
Chutes, Incinerators, and Laundry Chutes
9.6 Fire
Detection, Alarm, and Communications Systems
9.7 Automatic
Sprinklers and Other Extinguishing Equipment
9.8 Special
Inspections and Tests
10 Interior Finish,
Contents, and Furnishings
10.1 General
10.2 Interior
Finish
10.3 Contents
and Furnishings
11 Special Structures
and High-Rise Buildings
11.1 General
Requirements
11.2 Open
Structures
11.3 Towers
11.4
Water-Surrounded Structures
11.5 Piers
11.6 Vehicles
and Vessels
11.7
Underground and Limited Access Structures
11.8
High-Rise Buildings
11.9
Permanent Membrane Structures
11.10
Temporary Membrane Structures
11.11 Tents
12/13 New and Existing
Assembly Occupancies
12/13.1
General Requirements
12/13.2 Means
of Egress Requirements
12/13.3
Protection
12/13.4
Special Provisions
12/13.5
Building Services
12/13.6
Reserved
12/13.7
Operating Features
14/15 New and Existing
Educational Occupancies
14/15.1
General Requirements
14/15.2 Means
of Egress Requirements
14/15.3
Protection
14/15.4
Special Provisions
14/15.5
Building Services
14/15.6
Reserved
14/15.7
Operating Features
16/17 New and Existing
Day-Care Occupancies
16/17.1
General Requirements
16/17.2 Means
of Egress Requirements
16/17.3
Protection
16/17.4
Special Provisions
16/17.5
Building Services
16/17.6
Day-Care Homes
16/17.7
Operating Features
18/19 New and Existing
Health Care Occupancies
18/19.1
General Requirements
18/19.2 Means
of Egress Requirements
18/19.3
Protection
18/19.4
Special Provisions
18/19.5
Building Services
18/19.6
Reserved
18/19.7
Operating Features
20/21 New and Existing
Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies
20/21.1
General Requirements
20/21.2 Means
of Egress Requirements
20/21.3
Protection
20/21.4
Special Provisions
20/21.5
Building Services
20/21.6
Reserved
20/21.7
Operating Features
22/23 New and Existing
Detention and Correctional Occupancies
22/23.1
General Requirements
22/23.2 Means
of Egress Requirements
22/23.3
Protection
22/23.4
Special Provisions
22/23.5
Building Services
22/23.6
Reserved
22/23.7
Operating Features
24 One- and Two-Family
Dwellings
24.1 General
Requirements
24.2 Means of
Escape Requirements
24.3
Protection
24.4 Reserved
24.5 Building
Services
25 Reserved 823
26 Lodging or Rooming
Houses
26.1 General
Requirements
26.2 Means of
Escape Requirements
26.3
Protection
26.4 Reserved
26.5 Building
Services
26.6 Reserved
26.7
Operating Features
27 Reserved
28/29 New and Existing
Hotels and Dormitories
28/29.1
General Requirements
28/29.2 Means
of Egress Requirements
28/29.3
Protection
28/29.4
Special Provisions
28/29.5
Building Services
28/29.6
Reserved
28/29.7
Operating Features
30/31 New and Existing
Apartment Buildings
30/31.1
General Requirements
30/31.2 Means
of Egress Requirements
30/31.3
Protection
30/31.4
Special Provisions
30/31.5
Building Services
30/31.6
Reserved
30/31.7
Operating Features
32/33 New and Existing
Residential Board and Care Occupancies
32/33.1
General Requirements
32/33.2 Small
Facilities
32/33.3 Large
Facilities
32/33.4
Suitability of an Apartment Building to House a Board and
Care Occupancy
32/33.5
Reserved
32/33.6
Reserved
32/33.7
Operating Features
34 Reserved
35 Reserved
36/37 New and Existing
Mercantile Occupancies
36/37.1
General Requirements
36/37.2 Means
of Egress Requirements
36/37.3
Protection
36/37.4
Special Provisions
36/37.5
Building Services
36/37.6
Reserved
36/37.7
Operating Features
38/39 New and Existing
Business Occupancies
38/39.1
General Requirements
38/39.2 Means
of Egress Requirements
38/39.3
Protection
38/39.4
Special Provisions
38/39.5
Building Services
38/39.6
Reserved
38/39.7
Operating Features
40 Industrial
Occupancies
40.1 General
Requirements
40.2 Means of
Egress Requirements
40.3
Protection
40.4 Special
Provisions — High-Rise Buildings
40.5 Building
Services
40.6 Special
Provisions for Aircraft Servicing Hangars
40.7
Operating Features – Upholstered Furniture and Mattresses
41 Reserved
42 Storage Occupancies
42.1 General
Requirements
42.2 Means of
Egress Requirements
42.3
Protection
42.4 Special
Provisions — High-Rise Buildings
42.5 Building
Services
42.6 Special
Provisions for Aircraft Storage Hangars
42.7 Special
Provisions for Grain Handling, Processing, Milling, or Other
Bulk Storage Facilities
42.8 Special
Provisions for Parking Structures
42.9
Operating Features — Upholstered Furniture and Mattresses
43 Building
Rehabilitation
43.1 General
43.2 Special
Definitions
43.3 Repairs
43.4
Renovations
43.5
Modifications
43.6
Reconstruction
43.7 Change
of Use or Occupancy Classification
43.8
Additions
43.9 Reserved
43.10
Historic Buildings
Annexes
A Explanatory
Material
B Elevators for
Occupant-Controlled Evacuation Prior to Phase I Emergency Recall
Operations
C Supplemental
Evacuation Equipment
D Informational
References
PART TWO
Supplements
1 Case Histories:
Fires Influencing the Life Safety Code
2 Extracts from
ASME Elevator Code and Handbook
3 Fire Tests for
Life Safety Code Users
4
Technical/Substantive Changes 2006–2009 Editions
Code Index
Commentary Index
Important Notices and Legal
Disclaimers
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