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Based on the 2015 NFPA 101\u00ae, NFPA\u00ae’s acclaimed Life Safety Code\u00ae Handbook incorporates full Code text, commentary, and visuals in a must-have resource. Any decisions you make in the built environment have the potential to affect lives. That’s why you need the best source of applications advice: the 2015 NFPA 101: Life Safety Code Handbook. This resource combines Code text and expert commentary to help you comply correctly the first time and avoid costly mistakes, violations, and job delays. In full-color, the 2015 Life Safety Code Handbook is the only reference in the industry that provides: Side-by-side presentation of occupancy requirements for new and existing buildings for easy comparison — this feature alone makes the Handbook a must! The full 2015 Life Safety Code text including changes, such as an occupant load factor for concentrated business use areas, and utilizing an atrium as part of an occupancy separation Expert commentary explaining the reasoning and intent behind the rules, with hands-on examples of how to apply the added mandates for CO detection and alarm in new educational and day care facilities, training requirements for crowd managers in assembly occupancies, and other changes Added guidance for hospital administrators and contractors on how to apply the latest health care occupancy provisions 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 Matrix comparing the 2012 and 2015 NFPA 101 that gives you an overview of technical\/substantive changes at a glance If public safety depends on you, look to the 2015 NFPA 101 Handbook for essential support. Whether you’re a building owner, architect, designer, contractor, engineer, AHJ, or inspector, NFPA’s unique 2015 Life Safety Code Handbook helps you apply requirements properly to protect building occupants throughout the life cycle of the building. – See more at: http:\/\/catalog.nfpa.org\/NFPA-101-Life-Safety-Code-Handbook-2015-Edition-P15695.aspx#sthash.zCmq92FQ.dpuf<\/p>\n

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1<\/td>\nCover <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
3<\/td>\nContents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nPreface <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
9<\/td>\nAbout the Editors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
10<\/td>\nIn Memoriam <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\n1 Administration
1.1 Scope <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
17<\/td>\n1.2 Purpose <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
18<\/td>\n1.3 Application
1.4 Equivalency <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
20<\/td>\n1.5 Units and Formulas <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
21<\/td>\n1.6 Enforcement <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\n2 Referenced Publications
2.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
24<\/td>\n2.2 NFPA Publications <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\n2.3 Other Publications <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
28<\/td>\n2.4 References for Extracts in Mandatory
\n Sections <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\n3 Definitions
3.1 General
3.2 NFPA Official Definitions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
30<\/td>\n3.3 General Definitions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
65<\/td>\n4 General
4.1 Goals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
66<\/td>\n4.2 Objectives <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
67<\/td>\n4.3 Assumptions
4.4 Life Safety Compliance Options <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
69<\/td>\n4.5 Fundamental Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
70<\/td>\n4.6 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
79<\/td>\n4.7 Fire Drills <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
80<\/td>\n4.8 Emergency Action Plan <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
85<\/td>\n5 Performance-Based Option <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
86<\/td>\n5.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
89<\/td>\n5.2 Performance Criteria <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
91<\/td>\n5.3 Retained Prescriptive
\n Requirements
5.4 Design Specifications and Other
\n Conditions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
103<\/td>\n5.5 Design Fire Scenarios <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
110<\/td>\n5.6 Evaluation of Proposed Designs <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
114<\/td>\n5.7 Safety Factors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
115<\/td>\n5.8 Documentation Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
117<\/td>\n6 Classification of Occupancy and Hazard
\n of Contents
6.1 Classification of Occupancy <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
135<\/td>\n6.2 Hazard of Contents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
139<\/td>\n7 Means of Egress <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
140<\/td>\n7.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
158<\/td>\n7.2 Means of Egress Components <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
267<\/td>\n7.3 Capacity of Means of Egress <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
280<\/td>\n7.4 Number of Means of Egress <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
283<\/td>\n7.5 Arrangement of Means
\n of Egress <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
295<\/td>\n7.6 Measurement of Travel Distance
\n to Exits <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
300<\/td>\n7.7 Discharge from Exits <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
303<\/td>\n7.8 Illumination of Means of Egress <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
306<\/td>\n7.9 Emergency Lighting <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
309<\/td>\n7.10 Marking of Means of Egress <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
318<\/td>\n7.11 Special Provisions for Occupancies with
\n High Hazard Contents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
319<\/td>\n7.12 Mechanical Equipment Rooms, Boiler
\n Rooms, and Furnace Rooms <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
320<\/td>\n7.13 Normally Unoccupied Building Service
\n Equipment Support Areas <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
321<\/td>\n7.14 Occupant Evacuation Elevators <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
331<\/td>\n8 Features of Fire Protection
8.1 General
8.2 Construction and
\n Compartmentation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
338<\/td>\n8.3 Fire Barriers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
349<\/td>\n8.4 Smoke Partitions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
350<\/td>\n8.5 Smoke Barriers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
355<\/td>\n8.6 Vertical Openings <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
376<\/td>\n8.7 Special Hazard Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
379<\/td>\n8.8 Inspection and Testing of Door
\n Assemblies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
383<\/td>\n9 Building Service and Fire Protection Equipment
9.1 Utilities <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
384<\/td>\n9.2 Heating, Ventilating, and
\n Air-Conditioning <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
385<\/td>\n9.3 Smoke Control <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
386<\/td>\n9.4 Elevators, Escalators, and
\n Conveyors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
390<\/td>\n9.5 Waste Chutes, Incinerators, and Laundry
\n Chutes <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
391<\/td>\n9.6 Fire Detection, Alarm, and
\n Communications Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
408<\/td>\n9.7 Automatic Sprinklers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
411<\/td>\n9.8 Other Automatic Extinguishing
\n Equipment <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
412<\/td>\n9.9 Portable Fire Extinguishers
9.10 Standpipe Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
413<\/td>\n9.11 Fire Protection System Operating
\n Features
9.12 Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection and
\n Warning Equipment <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
414<\/td>\n9.13 Special Inspections and Tests <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
417<\/td>\n10 Interior Finish, Contents,
\n and Furnishings
10.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
419<\/td>\n10.2 Interior Finish <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
439<\/td>\n10.3 Contents and Furnishings <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
447<\/td>\n11 Special Structures and High-Rise
\n Buildings <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
448<\/td>\n11.1 General Requirements
11.2 Open Structures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
449<\/td>\n11.3 Towers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
453<\/td>\n11.4 Water-Surrounded Structures
11.5 Piers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
454<\/td>\n11.6 Vehicles and Vessels
11.7 Underground and Limited Access
\n Structures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
456<\/td>\n11.8 High-Rise Buildings <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
460<\/td>\n11.9 Permanent Membrane
\n Structures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
462<\/td>\n11.10 Temporary Membrane
\n Structures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
464<\/td>\n11.11 Tents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
467<\/td>\n12\/13 New and Existing Assembly
\n Occupancies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
470<\/td>\n12.1\/13.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
485<\/td>\n12.2\/13.2 Means of Egress
\n Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
533<\/td>\n12.3\/13.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
544<\/td>\n12.4\/13.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
580<\/td>\n12.5\/13.5 Building Services <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
581<\/td>\n12.6\/13.6 Reserved
12.7\/13.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
599<\/td>\n14\/15 New and Existing Educational
\n Occupancies
14.1\/15.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
604<\/td>\n14.2\/15.2 Means of Egress
\n Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
620<\/td>\n14.3\/15.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
632<\/td>\n14.4\/15.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
634<\/td>\n14.5\/15.5 Building Services <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
636<\/td>\n14.6\/15.6 Reserved
14.7\/15.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
641<\/td>\n16\/17 New and Existing Day-Care Occupancies
16.1\/17.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
652<\/td>\n16.2\/17.2 Means of Egress
\n Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
662<\/td>\n16.3\/17.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
669<\/td>\n16.4\/17.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
671<\/td>\n16.5\/17.5 Building Services
16.6\/17.6 Day-Care Homes <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
678<\/td>\n16.7\/17.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
685<\/td>\n18\/19 New and Existing Health Care
\n Occupancies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
686<\/td>\n18.1\/19.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
705<\/td>\n18.2\/19.2 Means of Egress
\n Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
749<\/td>\n18.3\/19.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
794<\/td>\n18.4\/19.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
802<\/td>\n18.5\/19.5 Building Services <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
805<\/td>\n18.6\/19.6 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
806<\/td>\n18.7\/19.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
817<\/td>\n20\/21 New and Existing Ambulatory Health
\n Care Occupancies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
818<\/td>\n20.1\/21.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
827<\/td>\n20.2\/21.2 Means of Egress
\n Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
838<\/td>\n20.3\/21.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
847<\/td>\n20.4\/21.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
851<\/td>\n20.5\/21.5 Building Services <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
852<\/td>\n20.6\/21.6 Reserved
20.7\/21.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
861<\/td>\n22\/23 New and Existing Detention and
\n Correctional Occupancies
22.1\/23.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
875<\/td>\n22.2\/23.2 Means of Egress
\n Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
888<\/td>\n22.3\/23.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
906<\/td>\n22.4\/23.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
917<\/td>\n22.5\/23.5 Building Services <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
919<\/td>\n22.6\/23.6 Reserved
22.7\/23.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
923<\/td>\n24 One- and Two-Family Dwellings
24.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
925<\/td>\n24.2 Means of Escape Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
931<\/td>\n24.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
934<\/td>\n24.4 Reserved
24.5 Building Services <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
937<\/td>\n25 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
939<\/td>\n26 Lodging or Rooming Houses
26.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
941<\/td>\n26.2 Means of Escape Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
944<\/td>\n26.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
948<\/td>\n26.4 Reserved
26.5 Building Services
26.6 Reserved
26.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
949<\/td>\n27 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
951<\/td>\n28\/29 New and Existing Hotels and
\n Dormitories
28.1\/29.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
954<\/td>\n28.2\/29.2 Means of Egress
\n Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
964<\/td>\n28.3\/29.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
975<\/td>\n28.4\/29.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
976<\/td>\n28.5\/29.5 Building Services <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
977<\/td>\n28.6\/29.6 Reserved
28.7\/29.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
981<\/td>\n30\/31 New and Existing Apartment
\n Buildings
30.1\/31.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
986<\/td>\n30.2\/31.2 Means of Egress
\n Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
998<\/td>\n30.3\/31.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1011<\/td>\n30.4\/31.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1012<\/td>\n30.5\/31.5 Building Services <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1013<\/td>\n30.6\/31.6 Reserved
30.7\/31.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1015<\/td>\n32\/33 New and Existing Residential Board
\n and Care Occupancies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1016<\/td>\n32.1\/33.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1022<\/td>\n32.2\/33.2 Small Facilities <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1049<\/td>\n32.3\/33.3 Large Facilities <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1076<\/td>\n32.4\/33.4 Suitability of an Apartment
\n Building to House a Board and Care
\n Occupancy <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1078<\/td>\n32.5\/33.5 Reserved
32.6\/33.6 Reserved
32.7\/33.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1083<\/td>\n34 Reserved
35 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1085<\/td>\n36\/37 New and Existing Mercantile
\n Occupancies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1086<\/td>\n36.1\/37.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1096<\/td>\n36.2\/37.2 Means of Egress
\n Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1109<\/td>\n36.3\/37.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1114<\/td>\n36.4\/37.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1127<\/td>\n36.5\/37.5 Building Services <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1128<\/td>\n36.6\/37.6 Reserved
36.7\/37.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1129<\/td>\n38\/39 New and Existing Business
\n Occupancies
38.1\/39.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1135<\/td>\n38.2\/39.2 Means of Egress
\n Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1148<\/td>\n38.3\/39.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1153<\/td>\n38.4\/39.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1154<\/td>\n38.5\/39.5 Building Services
38.6\/39.6 Reserved
38.7\/39.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1157<\/td>\n40 Industrial Occupancies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1158<\/td>\n40.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1162<\/td>\n40.2 Means of Egress Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1170<\/td>\n40.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1172<\/td>\n40.4 Special Provisions
40.5 Building Services
40.6 Special Provisions for Aircraft Servicing
\n Hangars <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1173<\/td>\n40.7 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1175<\/td>\n41 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1177<\/td>\n42 Storage Occupancies
42.1 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1178<\/td>\n42.2 Means of Egress Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1184<\/td>\n42.3 Protection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1185<\/td>\n42.4 Special Provisions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1186<\/td>\n42.5 Building Services
42.6 Special Provisions for Aircraft Storage
\n Hangars
42.7 Special Provisions for Grain Handling,
\n Processing, Milling, or Other Bulk
\n Storage Facilities <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1188<\/td>\n42.8 Special Provisions for Parking
\n Structures <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1192<\/td>\n42.9 Operating Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1193<\/td>\n43 Building Rehabilitation
43.1 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1197<\/td>\n43.2 Special Definitions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1200<\/td>\n43.3 Repairs <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1201<\/td>\n43.4 Renovations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1203<\/td>\n43.5 Modifications <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1204<\/td>\n43.6 Reconstruction <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1209<\/td>\n43.7 Change of Use or Occupancy
\n Classification <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1216<\/td>\n43.8 Additions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1218<\/td>\n43.9 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1219<\/td>\n43.10 Historic Buildings <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1223<\/td>\nAnnexes
\n A Explanatory Material <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1225<\/td>\nB Supplemental Evacuation Equipment <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1235<\/td>\nC Informational References <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1241<\/td>\nSupplement <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1243<\/td>\nTechnical\/Substantive Changes 2012\u20132015
\n Editions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1289<\/td>\nIndex <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1337<\/td>\nImportant Notices and Legal Disclaimers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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