{"id":197766,"date":"2024-10-19T12:35:19","date_gmt":"2024-10-19T12:35:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/product\/uncategorized\/nfpa-72-handbook-2016\/"},"modified":"2024-10-25T05:08:51","modified_gmt":"2024-10-25T05:08:51","slug":"nfpa-72-handbook-2016","status":"publish","type":"product","link":"https:\/\/pdfstandards.shop\/product\/publishers\/nfpa\/nfpa-72-handbook-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"NFPA 72 Handbook 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"

Navigate the changing world of fire alarm and signaling systems with help from the experts who know NFPA 72 best. Now in its 9th edition, this renowned full-color Handbook from NFPA\u00ae helps you answer questions, verify interpretations, and apply the 2019 edition of NFPA 72 correctly from the start. Efficient design and installation of fire alarm, carbon monoxide, and emergency communications systems require a clear understanding of provisions and the “why” behind compliance. Nothing compares to the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code Handbook for solutions and expert support. Updated to reflect recent changes in the Code and in the field, the Handbook puts a wealth of information at your fingertips: The full text of the 2019 edition of NFPA 72 provides the latest requirements for the application, installation, location, performance, and inspection, testing, and maintenance of fire alarm, carbon monoxide, and mass notification systems and components. Authoritative commentary — written by experts — gives you an insider perspective. “Closer Look” features provide in-depth, detailed explanations. Charts, tables, color photos, and other graphics clarify concepts. Code changes are shaded, so they’re easy to spot. System Design Tips help architects and engineers avoid common errors in application that can result in costly delays or charge backs. Updated FAQs answer questions from the field. Code excerpts from other standards are highlighted in the commentary providing better discussion context without the need to locate other documents. The “NFPA 720” icon indicates requirements added to the Code from NFPA 720, Standard for the Installation of Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection and Warning Equipment, which has been withdrawn. The “FM” icon indicates material in Chapter 14 of special interest to facility managers. Annexes address performance-based design, and voice intelligibility for voice\/alarm systems. Technical changes from 2016 to the 2019 editions of NFPA 72 are explained, including major changes such as carbon monoxide detection incorporated from NFPA 720. Greater explanation and discussion pertaining to fire service access elevators, occupant evacuation elevators (OEE), and occupant evacuation operation (OEO). Changes pertaining to Ethernet wiring for fire alarm systems and mass notification systems are explained and detailed in the commentary. Get the facts you need to work confidently and correctly as you apply the most advanced edition of NFPA 72. Engineers, contractors, consultants, designers, architects, and AHJs can be more efficient and effective working with the 2019 edition of the National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code\u00ae Handbook.<\/p>\n

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3<\/td>\nCover <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
4<\/td>\nCopyright <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
5<\/td>\nDedication <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
7<\/td>\nContents <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
11<\/td>\nPreface <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
13<\/td>\nAcknowledgments <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
15<\/td>\nAbout the Contributors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
19<\/td>\nAbout the Editors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
23<\/td>\nPART ONE NFPA 72\u00ae, National Fire Alarm
\nand Signaling Code, 2016 Edition,
\nwith Commentary <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
25<\/td>\n1 Administration
1.1 Scope <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
27<\/td>\n1.2 Purpose <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
29<\/td>\n1.3 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
33<\/td>\n1.4 Retroactivity <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
34<\/td>\n1.5 Equivalency
1.6 Units and Formulas <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
35<\/td>\n1.7 Code Adoption Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
37<\/td>\n2 Referenced Publications
2.1 General
2.2 NFPA Publications <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
38<\/td>\n2.3 Other Publications <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
39<\/td>\n2.4 References for Extracts in
\n Mandatory Sections <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
41<\/td>\n3 Definitions
3.1 General
3.2 NFPA Official Definitions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
43<\/td>\n3.3 General Definitions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
115<\/td>\n4 Reserved
5 Reserved
6 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
117<\/td>\n7 Documentation
7.1 Application. (SIG-FUN <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
118<\/td>\n7.2 Minimum Required Documentation.
\n (SIG-FUN <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
121<\/td>\n7.3 Design (Layout) Documentation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
128<\/td>\n7.4 Shop Drawings (Installation Documentation).
\n (SIG-FUN <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
130<\/td>\n7.5 Completion Documentation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
137<\/td>\n7.6 Inspection, Testing, and Maintenance
\n Documentation. (SIG-TMS <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
138<\/td>\n7.7 Records, Record Retention, and Record
\n Maintenance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
141<\/td>\n7.8 Forms <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
201<\/td>\n8 Reserved
9 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
203<\/td>\n10 Fundamentals
10.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
204<\/td>\n10.2 Purpose
10.3 Equipment <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
205<\/td>\n10.4 Design and Installation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
208<\/td>\n10.5 Personnel Qualifications <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
215<\/td>\n10.6 Power Supplies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
229<\/td>\n10.7 Signal Priority <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
230<\/td>\n10.8 Detection and Signaling
\n of Conditions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
231<\/td>\n10.9 Responses
10.10 Distinctive Signals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
233<\/td>\n10.11 Alarm Signals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
235<\/td>\n10.12 Fire Alarm Notification Appliance
\n Deactivation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
236<\/td>\n10.13 Supervisory Signals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
238<\/td>\n10.14 Trouble Signals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
240<\/td>\n10.15 Emergency Control Function
\n Status Indicators
10.16 Notification Appliance Circuits and Control
\n Circuits <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
241<\/td>\n10.17 Annunciation and Annunciation
\n Zoning <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
244<\/td>\n10.18 Monitoring Integrity of In-Building Fire
\n Emergency Voice\/Alarm Communications
\n Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
245<\/td>\n10.19 Documentation and Notification
10.20 Impairments <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
247<\/td>\n10.21 Unwanted Alarms <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
249<\/td>\n11 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
251<\/td>\n12 Circuits and Pathways
12.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
252<\/td>\n12.2 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
257<\/td>\n12.3 Pathway Class Designations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
265<\/td>\n12.4 Pathway Survivability <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
269<\/td>\n12.5 Shared Pathway Designations <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
270<\/td>\n12.6 Monitoring Integrity and Circuit Performance
\n of Installation Conductors and Other
\n Signaling Channels <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
273<\/td>\n12.7 Nomenclature <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
275<\/td>\n13 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
277<\/td>\n14 Inspection, Testing,
\n and Maintenance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
278<\/td>\n14.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
279<\/td>\n14.2 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
293<\/td>\n14.3 Inspection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
304<\/td>\n14.4 Testing <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
351<\/td>\n14.5 Maintenance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
352<\/td>\n14.6 Records <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
357<\/td>\n15 Reserved
16 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
359<\/td>\n17 Initiating Devices <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
361<\/td>\n17.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
363<\/td>\n17.2 Purpose
17.3 Performance-Based Design <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
364<\/td>\n17.4 General Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
371<\/td>\n17.5 Requirements for Smoke and Heat
\n Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
381<\/td>\n17.6 Heat-Sensing Fire Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
403<\/td>\n17.7 Smoke-Sensing Fire Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
455<\/td>\n17.8 Radiant Energy\u2013Sensing Fire
\n Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
472<\/td>\n17.9 Combination, Multi-Criteria, and Multi-
\n Sensor Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
474<\/td>\n17.10 Gas Detection <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
475<\/td>\n17.11 Other Fire Detectors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
476<\/td>\n17.12 Sprinkler Waterflow Alarm-Initiating
\n Devices <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
478<\/td>\n17.13 Detection of Operation of Other Automatic
\n Extinguishing Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
479<\/td>\n17.14 Manually Actuated Alarm-Initiating
\n Devices <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
482<\/td>\n17.15 Fire Extinguisher Electronic Monitoring
\n Device
17.16 Supervisory Signal\u2013Initiating
\n Devices <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
487<\/td>\n18 Notification Appliances
18.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
489<\/td>\n18.2 Purpose
18.3 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
497<\/td>\n18.4 Audible Characteristics <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
524<\/td>\n18.5 Visible Characteristics \u2014 Public
\n Mode <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
545<\/td>\n18.6 Visible Characteristics \u2014 Private
\n Mode
18.7 Supplementary Visible Signaling
\n Method <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
546<\/td>\n18.8 Textual Audible Appliances
18.9 Textual and Graphical Visible
\n Appliances <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
550<\/td>\n18.10 Tactile Appliances
18.11 Standard Emergency Service
\n Interface <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
553<\/td>\n19 Reserved
20 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
555<\/td>\n21 Emergency Control Function
\n Interfaces
21.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
556<\/td>\n21.2 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
559<\/td>\n21.3 Elevator Phase I Emergency
\n Recall Operation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
571<\/td>\n21.4 Elevator Shutdown <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
575<\/td>\n21.5 Fire Service Access Elevators <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
577<\/td>\n21.6 Occupant Evacuation Elevators <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
580<\/td>\n21.7 Heating, Ventilating, and Air-Conditioning
\n (HVAC) Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
584<\/td>\n21.8 Door and Shutter Release <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
585<\/td>\n21.9 Electrically Locked Doors <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
587<\/td>\n21.10 Exit Marking Audible
\n Notification Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
589<\/td>\n22 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
591<\/td>\n23 Protected Premises Fire Alarm
\n Systems
23.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
593<\/td>\n23.2 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
595<\/td>\n23.3 System Features <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
598<\/td>\n23.4 System Performance and Integrity <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
601<\/td>\n23.5 Performance of Initiating Device Circuits
\n (IDCs <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
602<\/td>\n23.6 Performance of Signaling Line Circuits
\n (SLCs <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
608<\/td>\n23.7 Performance of Notification Appliance
\n Circuits (NACs <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
609<\/td>\n23.8 System Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
645<\/td>\n23.9 In-Building Fire Emergency Voice\/Alarm
\n Communications
23.10 Fire Alarm Systems Using Tone <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
646<\/td>\n23.11 Suppression System Actuation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
648<\/td>\n23.12 Off-Premises Signals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
649<\/td>\n23.13 Guard\u2019s Tour Supervisory Service
23.14 Suppressed (Exception Reporting) Signal
\n System <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
650<\/td>\n23.15 Protected Premises Emergency Control
\n Functions
23.16 Special Requirements for Low-Power Radio
\n (Wireless) Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
655<\/td>\n24 Emergency Communications Systems
\n (ECS
24.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
656<\/td>\n24.2 Purpose <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
657<\/td>\n24.3 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
672<\/td>\n24.4 In-Building Fire Emergency Voice\/Alarm
\n Communications Systems (EVACS <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
685<\/td>\n24.5 In-Building Mass Notification
\n Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
701<\/td>\n24.6 Wide-Area Mass Notification
\n Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
705<\/td>\n24.7 Distributed Recipient Mass Notification
\n Systems (DRMNS <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
708<\/td>\n24.8 Two-Way, In-Building Wired Emergency
\n Services Communications Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
712<\/td>\n24.9 Two-Way Radio Communications
\n Enhancement Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
713<\/td>\n24.10 Area of Refuge (Area of Rescue Assistance)
\n Emergency Communications Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
714<\/td>\n24.11 Elevator Emergency Communications
\n Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
715<\/td>\n24.12 Stairway Communications Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
716<\/td>\n24.13 Information, Command, and Control <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
720<\/td>\n24.14 Performance-Based Design of Mass
\n Notification Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
723<\/td>\n24.15 Documentation for Emergency
\n Communications Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
725<\/td>\n25 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
727<\/td>\n26 Supervising Station Alarm Systems
26.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
731<\/td>\n26.2 General <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
737<\/td>\n26.3 Central Station Service Alarm
\n Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
753<\/td>\n26.4 Proprietary Supervising Station Alarm
\n Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
764<\/td>\n26.5 Remote Supervising Station
\n Alarm Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
773<\/td>\n26.6 Communications Methods for Supervising
\n Station Alarm Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
813<\/td>\n27 Public Emergency Alarm
\n Reporting Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
814<\/td>\n27.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
816<\/td>\n27.2 General Fundamentals <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
817<\/td>\n27.3 Management and Maintenance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
818<\/td>\n27.4 Communications Methods <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
820<\/td>\n27.5 Alarm Processing Equipment <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
836<\/td>\n27.6 Alarm Boxes <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
850<\/td>\n27.7 Public Cable Plant <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
857<\/td>\n27.8 Emergency Communications
\n Systems (ECS <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
859<\/td>\n28 Reserved <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
861<\/td>\n29 Single- and Multiple-Station Alarms and
\n Household Fire Alarm Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
862<\/td>\n29.1 Application <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
864<\/td>\n29.2 Purpose <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
866<\/td>\n29.3 Basic Requirements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
873<\/td>\n29.4 Assumptions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
875<\/td>\n29.5 Detection and Notification <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
883<\/td>\n29.6 Power Supplies <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
889<\/td>\n29.7 Equipment Performance <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
899<\/td>\n29.8 Installation <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
912<\/td>\n29.9 Optional Functions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
913<\/td>\n29.10 Maintenance and Tests
29.11 Markings and Instructions <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
917<\/td>\nAnnexes
A Explanatory Material <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
919<\/td>\nB Engineering Guide for Automatic Fire Detector
\n Spacing <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1001<\/td>\nC System Performance and Design Guide <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1007<\/td>\nD Speech Intelligibility <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1033<\/td>\nE Sample Ordinance Adopting NFPA 72 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1035<\/td>\nF Wiring Diagrams and Guide for Testing Fire Alarm
\n Circuits <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1047<\/td>\nG Guidelines for Emergency Communication Strategies
\n for Buildings and Campuses <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1057<\/td>\nH Informational References <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1065<\/td>\nPART TWO
\n Supplements <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1067<\/td>\n1 Performance-Based Design and Fire
\n Alarm Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1081<\/td>\n2 Voice Intelligibility for Emergency Voice\/Alarm
\n Communications Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1097<\/td>\n3 Class N Circuits \u2014 Using Networks for Fire Alarm
\n and Mass Notification Systems <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1103<\/td>\n4 Technical\/Substantive
\nChanges from the 2013 to
\n2016 Edition of NFPA 72 <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1113<\/td>\nIndex <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
1135<\/td>\nImportant Notices and Legal Disclaimers <\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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