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Use the 2015 NFPA 5000®: Building Construction and Safety Code® to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare.

Applicable to every occupancy type and building use, NFPA 5000 presents the latest requirements for construction, protection, and occupancy features needed to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare and to minimize injuries. The 2015 edition provides minimum design provisions used to regulate and control the permitting, design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy and location of all buildings and structures and certain equipment.

NFPA 5000 also addresses a broad range of natural and manmade hazards including fire, earthquake, wind, flood, and similar natural hazard and environmental events.

Major changes in the 2015 edition of NFPA 5000 recognize emerging technologies and trends and improve safety.

• Updates on accessibility issues align NFPA 5000 with Department of Justice ABA/ADA provisions for accessibility.
• Added provision recognizes the use of cross-laminated timber (CLT) as an option for heavy timber construction of walls, floors and roof decks — reflecting growing use of CLT as an alternative to dimensional or sawn heavy timber construction.
• New explicit rules govern security access turnstiles. The 2015 NFPA 5000 allows the use of such devices in places like office buildings that can restrict access into the space but allow free access when exiting.
• New mandate for installation of carbon monoxide detectors and alarms in educational and day care settings — expanding the occupancies where CO detection is required.

Other changes improve quality of life in the health care setting.

As begun in 2012, the 2015 NFPA 5000 continues to make strides in permitting the health care setting, including long-term care and nursing home care, to be made more homelike. Changes make the Code consistent with Facility Guidelines Institute (FGI) criteria as well as federal programs and issues that are promulgated at the national level.

• Health care occupancy provisions allow nursing home minimum corridor width to be reduced within small smoke compartments.
• Provisions added to permit doors to be disguised with murals for settings like memory care and dementia units.

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Published:

09/03/2014

ISBN(s):

9781455909155

Number of Pages:

646

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Address today’s hazards with today’s Code. The 2018 edition of NFPA 5000®: Building Construction and Safety Code® works to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare.

Applicable to every occupancy type and building use, NFPA 5000 presents the latest requirements for construction, protection, and occupancy features needed to safeguard life, health, property, and public welfare and to minimize injuries. The 2018 edition provides design provisions used to regulate and control the permitting, design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy and location of all buildings and structures and certain equipment. NFPA 5000 also addresses a broad range of natural and manmade hazards including fire, earthquake, wind, flood, and similar natural hazard and environmental events.

The 2018 edition of NFPA 5000 expands upon emerging hazards and issues.

Expanded topics include integration of new provisions dealing with building and occupant security. For example, Chapter 4 requires an assurance that any imposed security features will not interfere with the other compliance requirements. Other new provisions deal with normal building use; to minimize trips and falls in a building — and potentially prevent a measurable number of injuries — new requirements for grab bars in showers and bath tubs are included for certain occupancies with the base provisions being contained in Chapter 22.

Other significant changes include:

• An added reference that requires compliance with NFPA 4: Standard for Integrated Fire Protection and Life Safety System Testing, to address the complex arrangements between different types of fire protection systems
• An increased maximum size of the smoke compartment in a hospital and ambulatory health care occupancy, from 22,500 square feet to 40,000 square feet
• New requirements added to determine the need for, and type of, mass notification system (MNS) for certain occupancies
• Additional provisions for attic protection in the chapters dealing with apartments and hotels that utilize NFPA 13Rsprinkler systems
• New mandates for CO detection in assembly occupancies and residential board and care occupancies
• Newly introduced terms and definitions for mall buildings
• Expanded requirements dealing with flame propagation on exterior non-bearing walls in buildings to address composite designs that include water-resistant barriers
• A new section included in the chapter on roof assemblies that addresses both the fire and structural design parameters that must be included for roof-mounted PV panels
• Two new annex sections addressing structural hardening of an exterior wall that comprise a building exit and a provision recommending basic design criteria for storm shelters
• Updated extracts from NFPA 221 in Chapter 8
• Updated extracts from NFPA 30 and NFPA 400 in Chapter 34

Keep construction up-to-code in a new era for building safety.

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Published:

09/06/2017

ISBN(s):

9781455917372

Number of Pages:

694

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The only ANSI-accredited building code spans new construction, building rehabilitation, and enforcement!

Scientifically based and supported, this is the only building code developed through an ANSI-accredited process, and the only one organized by occupancy. NFPA 5000(TM): Building Construction and Safety Code(TM) combines regulations controlling design, construction, quality of materials, use and occupancy, location, and maintenance of buildings and structures, with fire and life safety requirements found in NFPA codes and standards such as the Life Safety Code(TM)

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Published:

10/01/2002

Number of Pages:

540

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Update to the 2012 NFPA 5000® and base your design and construction decisions on a strong foundation of current knowledge.

Fully revised to reflect the latest industry developments and technologies, the 2012 NFPA 5000: Building and Construction Safety Code® presents the latest requirements for construction, protection, and occupancy features needed to safeguard lives and property.

Make sure you’re working with the most up-to-date and complete rules for new construction, building rehab, and quality assurance, including these 2012 changes:

• Adopted and integrated provisions from the 2010 ASCE/SEI 7: Minimum Design Loads of Buildings and Other Structures to incorporate the state of the art for building design for structural loads including seismic, wind, and snow loads
• Revised criteria relating to the design and construction of fire service access elevators
• Added requirements for materials used in ceiling cavity and raised floor plenums, extracted from the 2012 NFPA 90A: Standard for the Installation of Air-Conditioning and Ventilating Systems
• New Annex Y referencing ASHRAE 189.1: Standard for the Design of High-Performance Green Buildings
• Changes involving hazardous material use, including better coordination with the 2010 NFPA 400: Hazardous Materials Code and adjustments to the maximum allowable quantity values to ensure safe handling and storage of volatile chemicals

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Published:

10/14/2011

Number of Pages:

631