Life Safety Code Handbook

by Cote, Ron

• ISBN13: 9780877654483
• ISBN10: 0877654484
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-07-01
• Publisher: CENGAGE Delmar Learning - DIST

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
PART ONE Life Safety Code and Commentary	1	(928)
Administration	3	(8)
Title	3	(1)
Scope	3	(3)
Purpose	6	(1)
Application	7	(1)
Equivalency	8	(1)
Units and Formulas	9	(1)
Enforcement	10	(1)
Mandatory References	11	(4)
Definitions	15	(20)
General	15	(1)
Official NFPA Definitions	16	(1)
General Definitions	17	(18)
General	35	(12)
Goals	35	(1)
Objectives	36	(1)
Assumption	37	(1)
Life Safety Compliance Options	37	(1)
Fundamental Requirements	38	(1)
General Requirements	39	(6)
Fire Drills	45	(2)
Performance-Based Option	47	(36)
General Requirements	47	(4)
Performance Criteria	51	(2)
Retained Prescriptive Requirements	53	(1)
Design Specifications and Other Conditions	54	(12)
Design Fire Scenarios	66	(8)
Evaluation of Proposed Designs	74	(5)
Safety Factors	79	(1)
Documentation Requirements	80	(3)
Classification of Occupancy and Hazard of Contents	83	(10)
Classification of Occupancy	83	(7)
Hazard of Contents	90	(3)
Means of Egress	93	(138)
General	93	(13)
Means of Egress Components	106	(77)
Capacity of Means of Egress	183	(10)
Number of Means of Egress	193	(2)
Arrangement of Means of Egress	195	(11)
Measurement of Travel Distance to Exits	206	(5)
Discharge from Exits	211	(3)
Illumination of Means of Egress	214	(2)
Emergency Lighting	216	(4)
Marking of Means of Egress	220	(8)
Special Provisions for Occupancies with High Hazard Contents	228	(1)
Mechanical Equipment Rooms, Boiler Rooms, and Furnace Rooms	229	(2)
Features of Fire Protection	231	(46)
General	231	(1)
Construction and Compartmentation	231	(38)
Smoke Barriers	269	(4)
Special Hazard Protection	273	(4)
Building Service and Fire Protection Equipment	277	(28)
Utilities	277	(1)
Heating, Ventilating, and Air Conditioning	278	(1)
Smoke Control	279	(2)
Elevators, Escalators, and Conveyors	281	(3)
Rubbish Chutes, Incinerators, and Laundry Chutes	284	(1)
Fire Detection, Alarm, and Communications Systems	285	(13)
Automatic Sprinklers and Other Extinguishing Equipment	298	(7)
Interior Finish, Contents, and Furnishings	305	(22)
General	305	(2)
Interior Finish	307	(13)
Contents and Furnishings	320	(7)
Special Structures and High-Rise Buildings	327	(16)
General Requirements	327	(1)
Open Structures	328	(1)
Towers	329	(3)
Water-Surrounded Structures	332	(1)
Piers	332	(1)
Vehicles and Vessels	333	(1)
Underground and Windowless Structures	333	(2)
High-Rise Buildings	335	(3)
Permanent Membrane Structures	338	(1)
Temporary Membrane Structures	339	(2)
Tents	341	(2)
New and Existing Assembly Occupancies	343	(102)
General Requirements	344	(14)
Means of Egress Requirements	358	(36)
Protection	394	(9)
Special Provisions	403	(27)
Building Services	430	(1)
Reserved	431	(1)
Operating Features	431	(14)
New and Existing Educational Occupancies	445	(30)
General Requirements	445	(4)
Means of Egress Requirements	449	(11)
Protection	460	(9)
Special Provisions	469	(1)
Building Services	470	(1)
Reserved	471	(1)
Operating Features	471	(4)
New and Existing Day-Care Occupancies	475	(30)
General Requirements	475	(6)
Means of Egress Requirements	481	(8)
Protection	489	(4)
Special Provisions	493	(1)
Building Services	494	(1)
Day-Care Homes	495	(5)
Operating Features	500	(5)
New and Existing Health Care Occupancies	505	(80)
General Requirements	505	(16)
Means of Egress Requirements	521	(21)
Protection	542	(32)
Special Provisions	574	(1)
Building Services	574	(3)
Reserved	577	(1)
Operating Features	577	(8)
New and Existing Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies	585	(26)
General Requirements	586	(8)
Means of Egress Requirements	594	(3)
Protection	597	(6)
Special Provisions	603	(1)
Building Services	603	(1)
Reserved	604	(1)
Operating Features	604	(7)
New and Existing Detention and Correctional Occupancies	611	(58)
General Requirements	611	(12)
Means of Egress Requirements	623	(13)
Protection	636	(19)
Special Provisions	655	(8)
Building Services	663	(1)
Reserved	664	(1)
Operating Features	664	(5)
One- and Two-Family Dwellings	669	(10)
General Requirements	669	(1)
Means of Escape Requirements	670	(7)
Protection	677	(1)
Reserved	678	(1)
Building Services	678	(1)
Reserved	679	(2)
Lodging or Rooming Houses	681	(10)
General Requirements	681	(2)
Means of Escape Requirements	683	(3)
Protection	686	(4)
Reserved	690	(1)
Building Services	690	(1)
Reserved	691	(2)
New and Existing Hotels and Dormitories	693	(30)
General Requirements	694	(3)
Means of Egress Requirements	697	(10)
Protection	707	(11)
Special Provisions	718	(1)
Building Services	719	(1)
Reserved	720	(1)
Operating Features	720	(3)
New and Existing Apartment Buildings	723	(32)
General Requirements	724	(3)
Means of Egress Requirements	727	(13)
Protection	740	(12)
Special Provisions	752	(1)
Building Services	752	(1)
Reserved	753	(1)
Operating Features	753	(2)
New Residential Board and Care Occupancies	755	(54)
General Requirements	756	(5)
Small Facilities	761	(22)
Large Facilities	783	(18)
Suitability of an Apartment Building to House a Board and Care Occupancy	801	(3)
Reserved	804	(1)
Reserved	804	(1)
Operating Features	804	(5)
Reserved	809	(2)
Reserved	811	(2)
New and Existing Mercantile Occupancies	813	(44)
General Requirements	814	(10)
Means of Egress Requirements	824	(14)
Protection	838	(6)
Special Provisions	844	(11)
Building Services	855	(1)
Reserved	855	(1)
Operating Features	855	(2)
New and Existing Business Occupancies	857	(28)
General Requirements	857	(6)
Means of Egress Requirements	863	(13)
Protection	876	(5)
Special Provisions	881	(1)
Building Services	882	(1)
Reserved	883	(1)
Operating Features	883	(2)
Industrial Occupancies	885	(20)
General Requirements	886	(4)
Means of Egress Requirements	890	(9)
Protection	899	(3)
Special Provisions	902	(1)
Building Services	902	(1)
Special Provisions for Aircraft Servicing Hangars	902	(3)
Reserved	905	(2)
Storage Occupancies	907	(22)
General Requirements	907	(2)
Means of Egress Requirements	909	(5)
Protection	914	(1)
Special Provisions	915	(1)
Building Services	916	(1)
Special Provisions for Aircraft Storage Hangars	916	(1)
Special Provisions for Grain or Other Bulk Storage Elevators	916	(1)
Special Provisions for Parking Structures	917	(6)
Annexes
A Explanatory Material	923	(2)
B Nonmandatory Referenced Publications	925	(4)
PART TWO Supplements	929	(97)
1 Case Histories: Fires Influencing the Life Safety Code	931	(12)
2 Fire Alarm Systems for Life Safety Code Users	943	(24)
3 Sprinkler Systems for Life Safety Code Users	967	(14)
4 Extracts from ASME Elevator Code and Handbook	981	(14)
5 Fire Tests for Life Safety Code Users	995	(18)
6 How to Adopt the Life Safety Code into Law	1013	(8)
7 Home Security and Fire Safety	1021	(5)
Life Safety Code Cross-Reference Table, 2000-1997 Editions	1026	(30)
Code Index	1056	(33)
Commentary Index	1089