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Avoid costly delays and violations with quick answers to your Code questions in the new 2013 National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code Handbook. For complete, reliable 2013 Code support, nothing tops the fully updated 2013 NFPA 72<\/p>\n
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1<\/td>\n | Cover Page <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
4<\/td>\n | Copyright <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
5<\/td>\n | Table of Contents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
9<\/td>\n | Preface <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
13<\/td>\n | About the Contributors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
17<\/td>\n | About the Editors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
21<\/td>\n | PART ONE – NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, 2013 Edition, with Commentary <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
23<\/td>\n | 1 Administration 1.1 Scope <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
24<\/td>\n | 1.2 Purpose <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
26<\/td>\n | 1.3 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
31<\/td>\n | 1.4 Retroactivity <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
32<\/td>\n | 1.5 Equivalency 1.6 Units and Formulas <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
33<\/td>\n | 1.7 Code Adoption Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
35<\/td>\n | 2 Referenced Publications 2.1 General 2.2 NFPA Publications <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
36<\/td>\n | 2.3 Other Publications <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
37<\/td>\n | 2.4 References for Extracts in Mandatory Sections <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
39<\/td>\n | 3 Definitions 3.1 General 3.2 NFPA Official Definitions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
41<\/td>\n | 3.3 General Definitions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
109<\/td>\n | 4 Reserved 5 Reserved 6 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
111<\/td>\n | 7 Documentation 7.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
112<\/td>\n | 7.2 Minimum Required Documentation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
113<\/td>\n | 7.3 Design (Layout) Documentation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
117<\/td>\n | 7.4 Shop Drawings (Installation Documentation) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
119<\/td>\n | 7.5 Completion Documentation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
124<\/td>\n | 7.6 Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance Documentation 7.7 Records, Record Retention, and Record Maintenance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
126<\/td>\n | 7.8 Forms <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
169<\/td>\n | 8 Reserved 9 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
171<\/td>\n | 10 Fundamentals 10.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
172<\/td>\n | 10.2 Purpose 10.3 Equipment <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
174<\/td>\n | 10.4 Installation and Design <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
176<\/td>\n | 10.5 Personnel Qualifi cations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
180<\/td>\n | 10.6 Power Supplies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
194<\/td>\n | 10.7 Signal Priority <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
196<\/td>\n | 10.8 Detection and Signaling of Conditions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
197<\/td>\n | 10.9 Responses 10.10 Distinctive Signals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
199<\/td>\n | 10.11 ECS Priority Signals 10.12 Alarm Signals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
200<\/td>\n | 10.13 Fire Alarm Notification Appliance Deactivation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
202<\/td>\n | 10.14 Supervisory Signals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
204<\/td>\n | 10.15 Trouble Signals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
206<\/td>\n | 10.16 Emergency Control Function Status Indicators 10.17 Notification Appliance Circuits and Control Circuits <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
207<\/td>\n | 10.18 Annunciation and Annunciation Zoning <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
210<\/td>\n | 10.19 Monitoring Integrity of In-Building Fire Emergency Voice\/Alarm Communications Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
211<\/td>\n | 10.20 Documentation and Notifi cation 10.21 Impairments <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
213<\/td>\n | 10.22 Unwanted Alarms <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
215<\/td>\n | 11 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
217<\/td>\n | 12 Circuits and Pathways 12.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
218<\/td>\n | 12.2 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
221<\/td>\n | 12.3 Pathway Class Designations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
226<\/td>\n | 12.4 Pathway Survivability <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
228<\/td>\n | 12.5 Shared Pathway Designations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
230<\/td>\n | 12.6 Monitoring Integrity and Circuit Performance of Installation Conductors and Other Signaling Channels <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
233<\/td>\n | 12.7 Nomenclature <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
235<\/td>\n | 13 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
237<\/td>\n | 14 Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
238<\/td>\n | 14.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
239<\/td>\n | 14.2 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
252<\/td>\n | 14.3 Inspection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
263<\/td>\n | 14.4 Testing <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
304<\/td>\n | 14.5 Maintenance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
305<\/td>\n | 14.6 Records <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
309<\/td>\n | 15 Reserved 16 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
311<\/td>\n | 17 Initiating Devices <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
313<\/td>\n | 17.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
315<\/td>\n | 17.2 Purpose 17.3 Performance-Based Design <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
316<\/td>\n | 17.4 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
322<\/td>\n | 17.5 Requirements for Smoke and Heat Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
332<\/td>\n | 17.6 Heat-Sensing Fire Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
355<\/td>\n | 17.7 Smoke-Sensing Fire Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
410<\/td>\n | 17.8 Radiant Energy\u2013Sensing Fire Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
427<\/td>\n | 17.9 Combination, Multi-Criteria, and Multi-Sensor Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
429<\/td>\n | 17.10 Gas Detection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
430<\/td>\n | 17.11 Other Fire Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
431<\/td>\n | 17.12 Sprinkler Waterflow Alarm-Initiating Devices <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
433<\/td>\n | 17.13 Detection of Operation of Other Automatic Extinguishing Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
434<\/td>\n | 17.14 Manually Actuated Alarm-Initiating Devices <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
437<\/td>\n | 17.15 Fire Extinguisher Electronic Monitoring Device 17.16 Supervisory Signal\u2013Initiating Devices <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
443<\/td>\n | 18 Notification Appliances <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
444<\/td>\n | 18.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
446<\/td>\n | 18.2 Purpose 18.3 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
454<\/td>\n | 18.4 Audible Characteristics <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
481<\/td>\n | 18.5 Visible Characteristics – Public Mode <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
501<\/td>\n | 18.6 Visible Characteristics – Private Mode <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
502<\/td>\n | 18.7 Supplementary Visible Signaling Method 18.8 Textual Audible Appliances <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
503<\/td>\n | 18.9 Textual and Graphical Visible Appliances <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
506<\/td>\n | 18.10 Tactile Appliances <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
507<\/td>\n | 18.11 Standard Emergency Service Interface <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
511<\/td>\n | 19 Reserved 20 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
513<\/td>\n | 21 Emergency Control Function Interfaces 21.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
514<\/td>\n | 21.2 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
516<\/td>\n | 21.3 Elevator Recall for Fire Fighters\u2019 Service <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
527<\/td>\n | 21.4 Elevator Shutdown <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
531<\/td>\n | 21.5 Fire Service Access Elevators <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
532<\/td>\n | 21.6 Occupant Evacuation Elevators <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
535<\/td>\n | 21.7 Heating, Ventilating and Air-Conditioning (HVAC) Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
538<\/td>\n | 21.8 Door and Shutter Release 21.9 Electrically Locked Doors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
540<\/td>\n | 21.10 Exit Marking Audible Notification Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
543<\/td>\n | 22 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
545<\/td>\n | 23 Protected Premises Fire Alarm Systems 23.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
548<\/td>\n | 23.2 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
550<\/td>\n | 23.3 System Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
554<\/td>\n | 23.4 System Performance and Integrity <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
557<\/td>\n | 23.5 Performance of Initiating Device Circuits (IDCs) 23.6 Performance of Signaling Line Circuits (SLCs) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
558<\/td>\n | 23.7 Performance of Notification Appliance Circuits (NACs) 23.8 System Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
592<\/td>\n | 23.9 In-Building Fire Emergency Voice\/Alarm Communications <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
593<\/td>\n | 23.10 Fire Alarm Systems Using Tone <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
594<\/td>\n | 23.11 Suppression System Actuation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
596<\/td>\n | 23.12 Off-Premises Signals 23.13 Guard\u2019s Tour Supervisory Service <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
597<\/td>\n | 23.14 Suppressed (Exception Reporting) Signal System 23.15 Protected Premises Emergency Control Functions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
598<\/td>\n | 23.16 Special Requirements for Low-Power Radio (Wireless) Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
603<\/td>\n | 24 Emergency Communications Systems (ECS) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
604<\/td>\n | 24.1 Application 24.2 Purpose <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
605<\/td>\n | 24.3 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
618<\/td>\n | 24.4 One-Way Emergency Communications Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
656<\/td>\n | 24.5 Two-Way, In-Building Emergency Communications Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
667<\/td>\n | 24.6 Information, Command, and Control <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
671<\/td>\n | 24.7 Performance-Based Design of Mass Notification Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
674<\/td>\n | 24.8 Documentation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
677<\/td>\n | 25 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
679<\/td>\n | 26 Supervising Station Alarm Systems 26.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
683<\/td>\n | 26.2 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
688<\/td>\n | 26.3 Central Station Service Alarm Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
705<\/td>\n | 26.4 Proprietary Supervising Station Alarm Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
716<\/td>\n | 26.5 Remote Supervising Station Alarm Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
724<\/td>\n | 26.6 Communications Methods for Supervising Station Alarm Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
761<\/td>\n | 27 Public Emergency Alarm Reporting Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
762<\/td>\n | 27.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
765<\/td>\n | 27.2 General Fundamentals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
766<\/td>\n | 27.3 Management and Maintenance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
768<\/td>\n | 27.4 Communications Methods <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
770<\/td>\n | 27.5 Alarm Processing Equipment <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
787<\/td>\n | 27.6 Alarm Boxes <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
801<\/td>\n | 27.7 Public Cable Plant <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
807<\/td>\n | 27.8 Emergency Communications Systems (ECS) <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
809<\/td>\n | 28 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
811<\/td>\n | 29 Single- and Multiple-Station Alarms and Household Fire Alarm Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
812<\/td>\n | 29.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
814<\/td>\n | 29.2 Purpose <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
816<\/td>\n | 29.3 Basic Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
823<\/td>\n | 29.4 Assumptions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
825<\/td>\n | 29.5 Detection and Notification <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
833<\/td>\n | 29.6 Power Supplies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
839<\/td>\n | 29.7 Equipment Performance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
848<\/td>\n | 29.8 Installation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
860<\/td>\n | 29.9 Optional Functions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
861<\/td>\n | 29.10 Maintenance and Tests <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
862<\/td>\n | 29.11 Markings and Instructions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
865<\/td>\n | Annexes A Explanatory Material <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
867<\/td>\n | B Engineering Guide for Automatic Fire Detector Spacing <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
949<\/td>\n | C System Performance and Design Guide <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
953<\/td>\n | D Speech Intelligibility <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
973<\/td>\n | E Sample Ordinance Adopting NFPA 72 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
975<\/td>\n | F Wiring Diagrams and Guide for Testing Fire Alarm Circuits <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
989<\/td>\n | G Informational References <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
999<\/td>\n | PART TWO <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
1001<\/td>\n | Supplements 1 Performance-Based Design and Fire Alarm Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
1015<\/td>\n | 2 Voice Intelligibility for Emergency Voice\/Alarm Communications Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
1029<\/td>\n | 3 Addressing Unwanted Alarms <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
1035<\/td>\n | Index <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n | ||||||
1056<\/td>\n | Important Notices and Legal Disclaimers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" NFPA 72: National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code Handbook<\/b><\/p>\n |