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NFPA 101: Life Safety Code Handbook, 2015
- Cover
- Contents
- Preface
- About the Editors
- In Memoriam
- 1 Administration [Go to Page]
- 1.1 Scope
- 1.2 Purpose
- 1.3 Application
- 1.4 Equivalency
- 1.5 Units and Formulas
- 1.6 Enforcement
- 2 Referenced Publications [Go to Page]
- 2.1 General
- 2.2 NFPA Publications
- 2.3 Other Publications
- 2.4 References for Extracts in Mandatory
Sections
- 3 Definitions [Go to Page]
- 3.1 General
- 3.2 NFPA Official Definitions
- 3.3 General Definitions
- 4 General [Go to Page]
- 4.1 Goals
- 4.2 Objectives
- 4.3 Assumptions
- 4.4 Life Safety Compliance Options
- 4.5 Fundamental Requirements
- 4.6 General Requirements
- 4.7 Fire Drills
- 4.8 Emergency Action Plan
- 5 Performance-Based Option [Go to Page]
- 5.1 General Requirements
- 5.2 Performance Criteria
- 5.3 Retained Prescriptive
Requirements
- 5.4 Design Specifications and Other
Conditions
- 5.5 Design Fire Scenarios
- 5.6 Evaluation of Proposed Designs
- 5.7 Safety Factors
- 5.8 Documentation Requirements
- 6 Classification of Occupancy and Hazard
of Contents [Go to Page]
- 6.1 Classification of Occupancy
- 6.2 Hazard of Contents
- 7 Means of Egress [Go to Page]
- 7.1 General
- 7.2 Means of Egress Components
- 7.3 Capacity of Means of Egress
- 7.4 Number of Means of Egress
- 7.5 Arrangement of Means
of Egress
- 7.6 Measurement of Travel Distance
to Exits
- 7.7 Discharge from Exits
- 7.8 Illumination of Means of Egress
- 7.9 Emergency Lighting
- 7.10 Marking of Means of Egress
- 7.11 Special Provisions for Occupancies with
High Hazard Contents
- 7.12 Mechanical Equipment Rooms, Boiler
Rooms, and Furnace Rooms
- 7.13 Normally Unoccupied Building Service
Equipment Support Areas
- 7.14 Occupant Evacuation Elevators
- 8 Features of Fire Protection [Go to Page]
- 8.1 General
- 8.2 Construction and
Compartmentation
- 8.3 Fire Barriers
- 8.4 Smoke Partitions
- 8.5 Smoke Barriers
- 8.6 Vertical Openings
- 8.7 Special Hazard Protection
- 8.8 Inspection and Testing of Door
Assemblies
- 9 Building Service and Fire Protection Equipment [Go to Page]
- 9.1 Utilities
- 9.2 Heating, Ventilating, and
Air-Conditioning
- 9.3 Smoke Control
- 9.4 Elevators, Escalators, and
Conveyors
- 9.5 Waste Chutes, Incinerators, and Laundry
Chutes
- 9.6 Fire Detection, Alarm, and
Communications Systems
- 9.7 Automatic Sprinklers
- 9.8 Other Automatic Extinguishing
Equipment
- 9.9 Portable Fire Extinguishers
- 9.10 Standpipe Systems
- 9.11 Fire Protection System Operating
Features
- 9.12 Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection and
Warning Equipment
- 9.13 Special Inspections and Tests
- 10 Interior Finish, Contents,
and Furnishings [Go to Page]
- 10.1 General
- 10.2 Interior Finish
- 10.3 Contents and Furnishings
- 11 Special Structures and High-Rise
Buildings [Go to Page]
- 11.1 General Requirements
- 11.2 Open Structures
- 11.3 Towers
- 11.4 Water-Surrounded Structures
- 11.5 Piers
- 11.6 Vehicles and Vessels
- 11.7 Underground and Limited Access
Structures
- 11.8 High-Rise Buildings
- 11.9 Permanent Membrane
Structures
- 11.10 Temporary Membrane
Structures
- 11.11 Tents
- 12/13 New and Existing Assembly
Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 12.1/13.1 General Requirements
- 12.2/13.2 Means of Egress
Requirements
- 12.3/13.3 Protection
- 12.4/13.4 Special Provisions
- 12.5/13.5 Building Services
- 12.6/13.6 Reserved
- 12.7/13.7 Operating Features
- 14/15 New and Existing Educational
Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 14.1/15.1 General Requirements
- 14.2/15.2 Means of Egress
Requirements
- 14.3/15.3 Protection
- 14.4/15.4 Special Provisions
- 14.5/15.5 Building Services
- 14.6/15.6 Reserved
- 14.7/15.7 Operating Features
- 16/17 New and Existing Day-Care Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 16.1/17.1 General Requirements
- 16.2/17.2 Means of Egress
Requirements
- 16.3/17.3 Protection
- 16.4/17.4 Special Provisions
- 16.5/17.5 Building Services
- 16.6/17.6 Day-Care Homes
- 16.7/17.7 Operating Features
- 18/19 New and Existing Health Care
Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 18.1/19.1 General Requirements
- 18.2/19.2 Means of Egress
Requirements
- 18.3/19.3 Protection
- 18.4/19.4 Special Provisions
- 18.5/19.5 Building Services
- 18.6/19.6 Reserved
- 18.7/19.7 Operating Features
- 20/21 New and Existing Ambulatory Health
Care Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 20.1/21.1 General Requirements
- 20.2/21.2 Means of Egress
Requirements
- 20.3/21.3 Protection
- 20.4/21.4 Special Provisions
- 20.5/21.5 Building Services
- 20.6/21.6 Reserved
- 20.7/21.7 Operating Features
- 22/23 New and Existing Detention and
Correctional Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 22.1/23.1 General Requirements
- 22.2/23.2 Means of Egress
Requirements
- 22.3/23.3 Protection
- 22.4/23.4 Special Provisions
- 22.5/23.5 Building Services
- 22.6/23.6 Reserved
- 22.7/23.7 Operating Features
- 24 One- and Two-Family Dwellings [Go to Page]
- 24.1 General Requirements
- 24.2 Means of Escape Requirements
- 24.3 Protection
- 24.4 Reserved
- 24.5 Building Services
- 25 Reserved
- 26 Lodging or Rooming Houses [Go to Page]
- 26.1 General Requirements
- 26.2 Means of Escape Requirements
- 26.3 Protection
- 26.4 Reserved
- 26.5 Building Services
- 26.6 Reserved
- 26.7 Operating Features
- 27 Reserved
- 28/29 New and Existing Hotels and
Dormitories [Go to Page]
- 28.1/29.1 General Requirements
- 28.2/29.2 Means of Egress
Requirements
- 28.3/29.3 Protection
- 28.4/29.4 Special Provisions
- 28.5/29.5 Building Services
- 28.6/29.6 Reserved
- 28.7/29.7 Operating Features
- 30/31 New and Existing Apartment
Buildings [Go to Page]
- 30.1/31.1 General Requirements
- 30.2/31.2 Means of Egress
Requirements
- 30.3/31.3 Protection
- 30.4/31.4 Special Provisions
- 30.5/31.5 Building Services
- 30.6/31.6 Reserved
- 30.7/31.7 Operating Features
- 32/33 New and Existing Residential Board
and Care Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 32.1/33.1 General Requirements
- 32.2/33.2 Small Facilities
- 32.3/33.3 Large Facilities
- 32.4/33.4 Suitability of an Apartment
Building to House a Board and Care
Occupancy
- 32.5/33.5 Reserved
- 32.6/33.6 Reserved
- 32.7/33.7 Operating Features
- 34 Reserved
- 35 Reserved
- 36/37 New and Existing Mercantile
Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 36.1/37.1 General Requirements
- 36.2/37.2 Means of Egress
Requirements
- 36.3/37.3 Protection
- 36.4/37.4 Special Provisions
- 36.5/37.5 Building Services
- 36.6/37.6 Reserved
- 36.7/37.7 Operating Features
- 38/39 New and Existing Business
Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 38.1/39.1 General Requirements
- 38.2/39.2 Means of Egress
Requirements
- 38.3/39.3 Protection
- 38.4/39.4 Special Provisions
- 38.5/39.5 Building Services
- 38.6/39.6 Reserved
- 38.7/39.7 Operating Features
- 40 Industrial Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 40.1 General Requirements
- 40.2 Means of Egress Requirements
- 40.3 Protection
- 40.4 Special Provisions
- 40.5 Building Services
- 40.6 Special Provisions for Aircraft Servicing
Hangars
- 40.7 Operating Features
- 41 Reserved
- 42 Storage Occupancies [Go to Page]
- 42.1 General Requirements
- 42.2 Means of Egress Requirements
- 42.3 Protection
- 42.4 Special Provisions
- 42.5 Building Services
- 42.6 Special Provisions for Aircraft Storage
Hangars
- 42.7 Special Provisions for Grain Handling,
Processing, Milling, or Other Bulk
Storage Facilities
- 42.8 Special Provisions for Parking
Structures
- 42.9 Operating Features
- 43 Building Rehabilitation [Go to Page]
- 43.1 General
- 43.2 Special Definitions
- 43.3 Repairs
- 43.4 Renovations
- 43.5 Modifications
- 43.6 Reconstruction
- 43.7 Change of Use or Occupancy
Classification
- 43.8 Additions
- 43.9 Reserved
- 43.10 Historic Buildings
- Annexes
A Explanatory Material
- B Supplemental Evacuation Equipment
- C Informational References
- Supplement
- Technical/Substantive Changes 2012–2015
Editions
- Index
- Important Notices and Legal Disclaimers [Go to Page]