U.S.building fire codes introduction
USINFO | 2013-12-03 10:38

About building fire code, there are water spray buildings, fire alarm and fire-fighting facilities such as sound and light alarm, especially within the large central hall corridors have water sprinkler system in the building codes. Many buildings built on the water wall adaptertip, before building the road with a yellow line marked fire exits, and write "fire exits shall not occupy" message.

Fire safety design aspects of the building, the fire design can be signed only by a registered architect. According to reports,cover City Hall's 50 Standards Officer, there is a fire is responsible for the audit, as well as 10 inspectors responsible for the inspection of the construction process. Time waits for review of drawings, sometimes takes a long time.

The United States in the fight against fire chief with the National Fire Protection Association Standard(NFPA), American Society for Testing and Materials(ASTM),Underwriters Laboratories Limited(UL) and other standards developed based,Factory Mutual Insurers Association(FM),National Electrical manufacturers Association(NEMA),American Society of Heating, refrigeration engineers(ASHRAE)is also involved in the development part of the formulation orthe relevant fire safety standards. Meanwhile,each of the modelbuilding codes, are there a pattern corresponding fire safety standards. Fire patterns involving construction standards, mainly by the National Fire Protection Association(NFPA) standards development organization and architectural patterns to develop.

These standards are NFPA101 "Life Safety Code", NFPA70 "National Electrical Code", NFPA30 "Flammable and Combustible Liquids Code", NFPA54 "National Fuel Gas Code", NFPA1 "fire protection", "International Building Code" (performance-based norms), "uniform Building Code" Standard building Code"," Nationalbuilding Code"and so on.

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