- 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.
For all matters related to flood-resistant design and construction, the first placement of permanent construction of a building (including a manufactured home) on a site, such as the pouring of a slab or footings, installation of pilings, or construction of columns. Permanent construction does not include land preparation (such as clearing, excavation, grading, or filling); or the installation of streets and walkways; or the excavation for a basement, footings, piers, or foundations; or the erection of temporary forms; or the installation of accessory buildings such as garages or sheds not occupied as dwelling units and not part of the main building. For a substantial improvement, the actual start of construction means the first alteration of any wall, ceiling, floor, or other structural part of the building, whether or not that alteration affects the exterior dimensions of the building.
Industry:Fire safety
For all matters related to flood-resistant design and construction, any facility that cannot be used for its intended purpose unless it is located or carried out in close proximity to water. Functionallydependentfacilityshall include docking or port facilities necessary for the loading or unloading of cargo or passengers, shipbuilding, or ship repair, but shall not include long-term storage, manufacture, sales, or service facilities.
Industry:Fire safety
For a given set of connections in an isolated power system, the total current that would flow through a low impedance if it were connected between either isolated conductor and ground.
Industry:Fire safety
Foams with expansion ratios ranging from 200:1 to approximately 1000:1.
Industry:Fire safety
Foam-producing equipment, materials, hose, and so forth, that are transported by hand.
Industry:Fire safety
Foam generators, fixed or portable, in which the foam solution is discharged as a spray onto screens through which an airstream developed by a fan or blower is passing.
Industry:Fire safety
Foam generators, fixed or portable, in which jet streams of foam solution aspirate sufficient amounts of air that is then entrained on the screens to produce foam, and which usually produce foam with expansion ratios of not more than 250:1.
Industry:Fire safety
