NFPA 5000 - Building Construction and Safety Code, 2009 Edition
The newly updated 2009 Edition NFPA 5000 - Building Construction and Safety Code
Keep pace with the industry's most advanced design and construction rules in the 2009 NFPA 5000®.
Protect building occupants and contents with the latest requirements for construction, protection, and occupancy features needed to minimize danger to life and property. The 2009 NFPA 5000: Building Construction and Safety Code® provides complete rules for new construction, building rehab, and safety enforcement. Be prepared to enhance safety in all types of occupancies. 604pp.
Major changes to the 2009 Code affect:
- Elevator use for occupant-controlled evacuation
- Dedicated elevators for first responders
- Supplemental evacuation equipment
- Collapse prevention scenario design in the section on performance-based design
- Additional sprinkler mandates for all existing high-rise health care occupancies and all new apartment buildings
- Area of refuge communication systems
- Remoteness of exit access and exit discharge
- Exit stair path markings
- Health care occupancy door locking for patient protective/security needs
- Health care occupancy alcohol-based hand-rub dispenser provisions
- Alarm occupant notification via public address system in assembly occupancies and mercantile malls