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Maximize occupant protection. Work with the latest rules for fire-safe design and construction in the 2009 NFPA 101: Life Safety Code!
The benchmark for safety in all types of structures has been fully updated with new and revised requirements that work together more effectively than ever to minimize danger to life from the effects of fire and related hazards. Unique in the field, only the Life Safety Code establishes a minimum threshold of safety in both new and existing structures, contains a performance-based compliance option, and provides separate, more flexible criteria for building rehabilitation vs. new construction to encourage adaptive reuse of buildings without sacrificing safety.
Update your knowledge with today's blueprint for safety in all types of structures!
The 2009 NFPA 101: Life Safety Code incorporates the latest research, technological advances, and industry developments to provide the most advanced rules for sprinklers, alarms, egress, emergency lighting, smoke barriers, special hazard protection - the complete range of construction, protection, and occupancy features that impact lives every day.
- New evacuation strategies and technologies facilitate faster movement of more people in an emergency. Get up-to-date on rules for elevator use for occupant-controlled evacuation and supplemental evacuation equipment.
- Additional sprinkler mandates for all existing high-rise health care occupancies and all new apartment buildings will save even more lives and further reduce fire injuries.
- New requirement for inspection of door openings ensures that fire doors will be operational in an emergency.
- New criteria for remoteness of exit accesses and exit discharges minimizes the possibility of both paths becoming blocked by a single fire.
- New rule for two-way communication systems in areas of refuge, even where the building is sprinklered, means people unable to leave the area can communicate with emergency responders as to their location.
- Health care occupancy door locking for patient protective needs improves security.
- Apply industry best practices and keep buildings up-to-code.
Before you design, build, rehab, or inspect any structure, consult the 2009 Life Safety Code for state-of-the-art tactics that help you achieve fire and life safety in the built environment.
The 2009 edition of NFPA 101: Life Safety Code adds provisions to Chapter 7 for electrically controlled egress doors, horizontal-sliding doors serving an area with an occupant load of fewer than 10, elevator lobby access door locking, and door inspection and maintenance. The remoteness criteria of Chapter 7 were expanded to have applicability to all three portions of the means of egress - exit access, exit, and exit discharge. Extensive revisions were made throughout the Code to standardize the use of the terms "stories in height," "finished ground level," "grade plane," "basement," and "level of exit discharge."
Section 9.6 and the applicable occupancy chapters were revised to limit the use of public address systems for occupant alarm notification to large venue assembly occupancies and mercantile mall buildings, where the physical configuration, function, and human behavior present challenges with respect to effective occupant notification by standard means in accordance with NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm Code.
A subsection was added to Chapter 11 for special provisions applicable to air traffic control towers. The criteria for assembly stage proscenium opening fire curtains were deleted from Chapter 12 and replaced by a reference to the new fire curtain provisions of NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives.
Provisions were added to Chapters 14 through 17 for the placement and use of alcohol-based hand-rub dispensers in educational and day-care occupancies.
The provisions of Chapters 18 and 19 were expanded to address door locking where the needs of patients or clients require specialized protective measures for their safety and security in hospitals, nursing homes, and limited care facilities. Also, a limitation on common path of travel was added to Chapter 18 for new health care occupancies; the requirement for patient sleeping room windows was deleted for new and existing health care occupancies; and all existing high-rise health care occupancy buildings must be sprinklered within 12 years of the adoption of this edition of the Code.
Numerous occupancy chapters were revised to require emergency plans in accordance with Section 4.8.
Chapter 43 on building rehabilitation was revised to address issues not identified when the chapter was written for the 2003 edition and to delete redundancies.
An adoptable annex was added for elevators for occupant evacuation prior to Phase I Emergency Recall Operations. Another adoptable annex was added for supplemental escape devices and systems.
Table of Contents
Chapter 1: Administration. Chapter 2: Referenced Publications. Chapter 3: Definitions. Chapter 4: General. Chapter 5: Performance-Based Option. Chapter 6: Classification of Occupancy and Hazard of Contents. Chapter 7: Means of Egress. Chapter 8: Features of Fire Protection. Chapter 9: Building Service and Fire Protection Equipment. Chapter 10: Interior Finish, Contents, and Furnishings. Chapter: 11: Special Structures and High-Rise Buildings. Chapter 12: New Assembly Occupancies. Chapter 13: Existing Assembly Occupancies. Chapter 14: New Educational Occupancies. Chapter 15: Existing Educational Occupancies. Chapter 16: New Day-Care Occupancies. Chapter 17: Existing Day-Care Occupancies. Chapter 18: New Health Care Occupancies. Chapter 19: Existing Health Care Occupancies. Chapter 20: New Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies. Chapter 21: Existing Ambulatory Health Care Occupancies. Chapter 22: New Detention and Correctional Occupancies. Chapter 23: Existing Detention and Correctional Occupancies. Chapter 24: One- and Two-Family Dwellings. Chapter 25: Reserved. Chapter 26: Lodging or Rooming Houses. Chapter 27: Reserved. Chapter 28: New Hotels and Dormitories. Chapter 29: Existing Hotels and Dormitories. Chapter 30: New Apartment Buildings. Chapter 31: Existing Apartment Buildings. Chapter 32: New Residential Board and Care Occupancies. Chapter 33: Existing Residential Board and Care Occupancies. Chapter 34: Reserved. Chapter 35: Reserved. Chapter 36: New Mercantile Occupancies. Chapter 37: Existing Mercantile Occupancies. Chapter 38: New Business Occupancies. Chapter 39: Existing Business Occupancies. Chapter 40: Industrial Occupancies. Chapter 41: Reserved. Chapter 42: Storage Occupancies. Chapter 43: Building Rehabilitation. Annex A: Explanatory Material. Annex B: Elevators for Occupant-Controlled Evacuation Prior to Phase I Emergency Recall Operations. Annex C: Supplemental Evacuation Equipment. Annex D: Informational References. Index. |
