NFPA 5000 - Building Construction and Safety Code, 2009 Edition

Keep pace with the industry's most advanced design and construction rules in the 2009 NFPA 5000®.

The 2009 edition of the NFPA 5000 - Building Construction and Safety Code helps you protect building occupants and contents with the latest requirements for construction, protection, and occupancy. This must-have reference contains a complete set of rules and regulations for new construction, building rehab, and safety enforcement. 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