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Full Webinar: Fuel Load Survey Methodology in Buildings

Amanda Kimball in Xchange Exclusives 1 week ago

As the use of performance-based methodologies evolve, it is becoming critically important to identify, characterize, and quantify design fires for buildings. NFPA 557, Standard for Determination of Fire Loads for Use in Structural Fire Protection Design, was developed to provide fire load data for structural fire protection design. NFPA 557 calls …Read More

Free NFPA fire and life safety webinars this week offer access to experts in fire protection, healthcare, and construction safety

Cathy Longley in NFPA Today 3 days ago

National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) subject matter experts will host a free COVID-19 Fire and Life Safety Webinar Series this Tuesday through Thursday, April 14-16. During the three one hour sessions NFPA technical staff will provide information and guidance; and offer timely feedback to fire protection, healthcare, construction safety, …Read More

NFPA Develops Additional Guidance for Health Care Facilities Working to Establish and Maintain Adequate Levels of Fire and Life Safety during COVID-19 Pandemic

Robert Solomon in NFPA Today 2 days ago

When health care facilities are operating under the conditions like the ones the U.S. health care system is facing right now, stressors are placed on everything, including physical space, staffing levels, available supplies, and the level of care being provided. Everyday code-based solutions simply will not work in many circumstances.   With …Read More

Temporary healthcare facilities/COVID-19

Michael Farrell III in Building & Life Safety 5 days ago

Temporary healthcare facilities and the CMS. Many jurisdictions are being approached regarding setting up a temporary health care facility at an alternative location such as a hotel, arena or convention center. In the discussions with designers and contractors it is being suggested that the ‘temporary’ nature of the facility relieves them of …Read More

Maintaining Egress from Businesses During the COVID-19 Emergency

Gregory Harrington in NFPA Today 22 hours ago

The overused understatement of the decade is, “This is an unprecedented time.” While the coronavirus outbreak has turned our lives into something none of us likely ever imagined, one fundamental life safety truth remains: THERE IS NO JUSTIFIABLE REASON FOR LOCKING EGRESS DOORS OR OTHERWISE COMPROMISING MEANS OF EGRESS IN OCCUPIED BUSINESSES.   We …Read More

NYC PRE-EXISTING BUILDING EGRESS: RESIDENTIAL

Matt Serafini in Building & Life Safety 3 days ago

NYC EGRESS – Pre-existing residential and mixed use buildings.   We have been contacted by our insurance broker stating that our buildings do not meet current NFPA 101 life safety code requirements. We have a mixed use building that is three stories. We have a retail deli on the first floor and two apartments above (one on each floor). We are …Read More

Firestopping – Where does the buck stop?

Tony de Bruyn in Building & Life Safety 1 week ago

A large developer built a large number of condominiums (3 condos per building) in Orange County in 2005. Built to California Building Code. I bought one in 2017 in good faith and recently peeked inside the ceiling space where I saw penetrations in the fire separation between mine and the adjacent condo. Most were fire stopped but, to my mind, …Read More

Water Slides, Rides and Attractions Building

Hamad Koroni in Building & Life Safety 5 days ago

A building consists of G+4 and is mainly used for water slides, rides and attractions purpose. The ground floor consists of entrance, showers, lockers & changing rooms, toilets, small retail shop and ice cream shop. The first, second, third and fourth floors are kind of deck and provides access to multiple activities of water slides, rides and …Read More

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