- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A refrigeration system arranged to accomplish either heating or heating and cooling.
Industry:Fire safety
A rehabilitation project or portion thereof that involves two or more construction codes and either (1) is an addition, a change of occupancy, or a reconstruction; or (2) is in any category of work and involves the installation of sprinklers.
Industry:Fire safety
A reinforcing member at the lower edge of the door curtain assembly.
Industry:Fire safety
A relative measurement of the surface burning characteristics of building materials when tested in accordance with NFPA 255, StandardMethodofTestofSurfaceBurningCharacteristicsofBuildingMaterials.
Industry:Fire safety
A reference point based on the depth or peak elevation of flooding, including wave height, which has a 1 percent (100 year) or greater chance of occurring in any given year.
Industry:Fire safety
A reference plane representing the average of the finished ground level adjoining the building at all exterior walls. When the finished ground level slopes down from the exterior walls, the grade plane is established by the lowest points within the area between the building and the lot line or, when the lot line is more than 6 ft (1830 mm) from the building, between the building and a point 6 ft (1830 mm) from the building.
Industry:Fire safety
A reference book, written in plain language, to guide emergency responders in their initial actions at the incident scene.
Industry:Fire safety
A rectangle that includes the runway and the surrounding area extending to a width of 500 ft (150 m) outward from each side of the runway centerline and to a length of 1650 ft (500 m) beyond each runway end, but not beyond the airport property line.
Industry:Fire safety
A record that was created or received and accumulated by a person or organization in the course of the conduct of affairs and that has been preserved because of its historical or continuing value.
Industry:Fire safety
