NFPA
101
Life Safety Code Handbook
2018
Edition
Authors: Gregory E.
Harrington, P.E., and Kristin Bigda, P.E.
Implement NFPA 101® correctly
in today's world. Your essential Code companion, NFPA®'s Life
Safety Code® Handbook incorporates the complete Code text,
commentary from seasoned professionals, and visuals into one go-to
source
Trust the 2018
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the right safety decisions in the built environment, where every
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You need expert support along with the Code.
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- Side-by-side presentation of occupancy
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comparison -- this feature alone makes the Handbook a must!
- The complete 2018 Life Safety Code text,
featuring an expanded scope that now includes hazardous
materials emergencies, injuries from falls, and emergency
communications
- Expert commentary explaining the
reasoning and intent behind the rules, with hands-on examples of
how to implement requirements
- Guidance for hospital administrators and
contractors on how to apply the latest health care occupancy
provisions
- All-new commentary for ensuring life
safety in malls
- More than 750 images including photos and
charts, tables, illustrations, and diagrams not found in the
Code -- all in full color for better visual clarification of
NFPA 101 provisions
- A matrix comparing the 2015 and 2018
editions of NFPA 101 that gives you an overview of
technical/substantive changes at a glance
If public safety depends on you, look to the
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Whether you're a building owner, architect,
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2018 edition Life Safety Code Handbook helps you apply requirements
properly to protect building occupants throughout the life of the
building. (Hardbound, 1,272 pp., 2018)
Contents:
Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Editors
PART ONE
Life
Safety Code® and Commentary
Chapter 1 Administration
1.1 Scope
1.2 Purpose
1.3 Application
1.4 Equivalency
1.5 Units and Formulas
1.6 Enforcement
Chapter 2 Referenced Publications
2.1 General
2.2 NFPA Publications
2.3 Other Publications
2.4 References for Extracts in Mandatory Sections
Chapter 3 Definitions
3.1 General
3.2 NFPA Official Definitions
3.3 General Definitions
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Chapter 6 Classification of Occupancy and
Hazard of Contents
6.1 Classification of Occupancy
6.2 Hazard of Contents
Chapter 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 Special Provisions
for Hazardous Materials.
7.13 Mechanical Equipment Rooms, Boiler Rooms, and Furnace
Rooms
7.14 Normally Unoccupied Building Service Equipment Support
Areas
7.15 Occupant
Evacuation Elevators
Chapter 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
8.8 Inspection and Testing
of Door Assemblies
Chapter 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 Waste Chutes, Incinerators, and Laundry Chutes.
9.6 Fire Detection, Alarm, and Communications Systems.
9.7 Automatic Sprinklers.
9.8 Other Automatic Extinguishing Equipment.
9.9 Portable Fire Extinguishers.
9.10 Standpipe Systems.
9.11 Fire Protection System Operating Features.
9.12 Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection and Warning Equipment.
9.13 Special Inspections and Tests.
9.14 Risk Analysis for Mass Notification Systems
Chapter 10 Interior Finish, Contents, and
Furnishings
10.1 General
10.2 Interior Finish
10.3 Contents and Furnishings
Chapter 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
11.12 Animal Housing Facilities
Chapter 12 New Assembly Occupancies
12.1 General Requirements
12.2 Means of Egress Requirements
12.3 Protection
12.4 Special Provisions
12.5 Building Services
12.6 Reserved
12.7 Operating Features
Chapter 13 Existing Assembly Occupancies
13.1 General Requirements
13.2 Means of Egress Requirements
13.3 Protection
13.4 Special Provisions
13.5 Building Services
13.6 Reserved
13.7 Operating Features
Chapter 14 New Educational Occupancies
14.1 General Requirements
14.2 Means of Egress Requirements
14.3 Protection
14.4 Special Provisions
14.5 Building Services
14.6 Reserved
14.7 Operating Features
Chapter 15 Existing Educational Occupancies
15.1 General Requirements
15.2 Means of Egress Requirements
15.3 Protection
15.4 Special Provisions
15.5 Building Services
15.6 Reserved
15.7 Operating Features
Chapter 16 New Day-Care Occupancies
16.1 General Requirements
16.2 Means of Egress Requirements
16.3 Protection
16.4 Special Provisions
16.5 Building Services
16.6 Day-Care Homes
16.7 Operating Features
Chapter 17 Existing Day-Care Occupancies
17.1 General Requirements
17.2 Means of Egress Requirements
17.3 Protection
17.4 Special Provisions
17.5 Building Services
17.6 Day-Care Homes
17.7 Operating Features
Chapter 18 New Health Care Occupancies
18.1 General Requirements
18.2 Means of Egress Requirements
18.3 Protection
18.4 Special Provisions
18.5 Building Services
18.6 Reserved
18.7 Operating Features
Chapter 19 Existing Health Care Occupancies
19.1 General Requirements
19.2 Means of Egress Requirements
19.3 Protection
19.4 Special Provisions
19.5 Building Services
19.6 Reserved
19.7 Operating Features
Chapter 20 New Ambulatory Health Care
Occupancies
20.1 General Requirements
20.2 Means of Egress Requirements
20.3 Protection
20.4 Special Provisions
20.5 Building Services
20.6 Reserved
20.7 Operating Features
Chapter 21 Existing Ambulatory Health Care
Occupancies
21.1 General Requirements
21.2 Means of Egress Requirements
21.3 Protection
21.4 Special Provisions
21.5 Building Services
21.6 Reserved
21.7 Operating Features
Chapter 22 New Detention and Correctional
Occupancies
22.1 General Requirements
22.2 Means of Egress Requirements
22.3 Protection
22.4 Special Provisions
22.5 Building Services
22.6 Reserved
22.7 Operating Features
Chapter 23 Existing Detention and
Correctional Occupancies
23.1 General Requirements
23.2 Means of Egress Requirements
23.3 Protection
23.4 Special Provisions
23.5 Building Services
23.6 Reserved
23.7 Operating Features
Chapter 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
Chapter 25 Reserved
Chapter 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
Chapter 27 Reserved
Chapter 28 New Hotels and Dormitories
28.1 General Requirements
28.2 Means of Egress Requirements
28.3 Protection
28.4 Special Provisions
28.5 Building Services
28.6 Reserved
28.7 Operating Features
Chapter 29 Existing Hotels and Dormitories
29.1 General Requirements
29.2 Means of Egress Requirements
29.3 Protection
29.4 Special Provisions
29.5 Building Services
29.6 Reserved
29.7 Operating Features
Chapter 30 New Apartment Buildings
30.1 General Requirements
30.2 Means of Egress Requirements
30.3 Protection
30.4 Special Provisions
30.5 Building Services
30.6 Reserved
30.7 Operating Features
Chapter 31 Existing Apartment Buildings
31.1 General Requirements
31.2 Means of Egress Requirements
31.3 Protection
31.4 Special Provisions
31.5 Building Services
31.6 Reserved
31.7 Operating Features
Chapter 32 New Residential Board and Care
Occupancies
32.1 General Requirements
32.2 Small Facilities
32.3 Large Facilities
32.4 Suitability of an Apartment Building to House a Board
and Care Occupancy
32.5 Reserved
32.6 Reserved
32.7 Operating Features
Chapter 33 Existing Residential Board and
Care Occupancies
33.1 General Requirements
33.2 Small Facilities
33.3 Large Facilities
33.4 Suitability of an Apartment Building to House a Board
and Care Occupancy
33.5 Reserved
33.6 Reserved
33.7 Operating Features
Chapter 34 Reserved
Chapter 35 Reserved
Chapter 36 New Mercantile Occupancies
36.1 General Requirements
36.2 Means of Egress Requirements
36.3 Protection
36.4 Special Provisions
36.5 Building Services
36.6 Reserved
36.7 Operating Features
Chapter 37 Existing Mercantile Occupancies
37.1 General Requirements
37.2 Means of Egress Requirements
37.3 Protection
37.4 Special Provisions
37.5 Building Services
37.6 Reserved
37.7 Operating Features
Chapter 38 New Business Occupancies
38.1 General Requirements
38.2 Means of Egress Requirements
38.3 Protection
38.4 Special Provisions
38.5 Building Services
38.6 Reserved
38.7 Operating Features
Chapter 39 Existing Business Occupancies
39.1 General Requirements
39.2 Means of Egress Requirements
39.3 Protection
39.4 Special Provisions
39.5 Building Services
39.6 Reserved
39.7 Operating Features
Chapter 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
Chapter 41 Reserved
Chapter 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
Chapter 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
Annex A Explanatory Material
Annex B Supplemental Evacuation Equipment
Annex C NFPA Documents on Hazardous Materials
Annex D Informational References
Index
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