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Smoke Showing
100
A Day-care facility not otherwise classified as an R-3 occupancy, where occupants are not capable of responding to an emergency situation without physical assistance from the staff [SFM]
What is a Group I Division 4 Occupancy?
100
Natural or manmade caves used solely for storage and/or processing of wine at a winery facility. They may or may not be open to the public.
What is a Winery Cave?
100
Any combination of a fire door, frame, hardware and other accessories that together provide a specific degree of fire protection to the opening.
What is a Fire Door Assembly?
100
An opening made through one side (wall, floor or ceiling membrane) of an assembly.
What is a Membrane Penetration?
100
A continuous membrane, either vertical or horizontal, such as a wall, floor or ceiling assembly, that is designed and constructed to restrict the movement of smoke.
What is a smoke barrier?
200
Buildings or portions thereof used to provide medical care on less than a 24-hour basis to individuals who are not classified as non-ambulatory or bedridden or rendered incapable of self-preservation by the services provided. [SFM]
What is a Group B occupancy?
200
An opening connecting two or more stories other than enclosed stairways, elevators, hoistways, escalators, plumbing, electrical, air-conditioning or other equipment, which is closed at the top and not defined as a mall. Stories, as used in this definition, do not include balconies within assembly groups or mezzanines that comply with Section 505.
What is an atrium?
200
The distance measured from the building face to one of the following: 1. The closest interior lot line; 2. To the centerline of a street, an alley or public way; or 3. To an imaginary line between two buildings on the property. The distance shall be measured at right angles from the face of the wall.
What is the Fire Separation Distance?
200
An opening that passes through an entire assembly.
What is a Through Penetration?
200
A space within a building enclosed by smoke barriers on all sides, including the top and bottom.
What is a smoke compartment?
300
A site with programs and facilities established for the primary purpose of providing an outdoor group living experience with social, spiritual, educational or recreational objectives, for five days or more during one or more seasons of the year. [SFM]
What is a Group C occupancy?
300
Building spaces having a floor level used for human occupancy more than 30 feet (9144 mm) below the finished floor of the lowest level of exit discharge.
What is an underground building?
300
The period of time a building element, component or assembly maintains the ability to confine a fire, continues to perform a given structural function, or both, as determined by the tests, or the methods based on tests, prescribed in Section 703.
What is a Fire-Resistance Rating?
300
A material, device or construction installed to resist for a prescribed time period the passage of flame and heat through openings in a protective membrane in order to accommodate cables, cable trays, conduit, tubing, pipes or similar items.
What is a Membrane-Penetration Firestop?
300
A listed device installed in ducts and air transfer openings designed to resist the passage of smoke. The device is installed to operate automatically, controlled by a smoke detection system, and where required, is capable of being positioned from a fire command center.
What is a smoke damper?
400
A space within a building or structure, which may include multiple laboratories, offices, storage, equipment rooms or similar support functions, where the aggregate quantities of hazardous materials stored and used do not exceed the quantities set forth in Table 443.7.3.1. [SFM]
What is a Group L occupancy?
400
Rooms in which ribbon-type cellulose acetate or other safety film is utilized in conjunction with electric arc, xenon or other light-source projection equipment that develops hazardous gases, dust or radiation. Where cellulose nitrate film is utilized or stored, such rooms shall comply with NFPA 40.
What is Motion Picture Projection Room?
400
A fire-resistance-rated wall assembly of materials designed to restrict the spread of fire in which continuity is maintained in accordance with Section 707 and that is designed and constructed to restrict the movement of smoke in accordance with Section 710. [sfm]
What is a Fire-Smoke Barrier?
400
An assemblage of specific materials or products that are designed, tested and fire-resistance rated to resist for a prescribed period of time the spread of fire through penetrations. The F and T rating criteria for penetration firestop systems shall be in accordance with ASTM E 814 or UL 1479.
What is a Through-Penetration Firestop System?
400
An exit stairway designed and constructed so that the movement of the products of combustion produced by a fire occurring in any part of the building into the enclosure is limited.
What is a Smokeproof Enclosure?
500
Motion picture and television production studio Sound Stages, Approved Production Facilities and production locations (without live audiences) [sfm]
What is a Group F Division 1 (F-1) Occupancy?
500
An accessory building less than 2,000 square feet (186 m2) and 20 feet (6096 mm) in building height constructed on a one- or two-family property where aircraft are stored.
What is a residential aircraft hangar?
500
The aggregate floor area enclosed and bounded by fire walls, fire barriers, exterior walls or horizontal assemblies of a building. Areas of the building not provided with surrounding walls shall be included if such areas are included within the horizontal projection of the roof or floor next above.
What is a Fire Area?
500
The time period that the through-penetration firestop system limits the spread of fire through the penetration when tested in accordance with ASTM E 814 or UL 1479.
What is an F rating?
500
A comparative measure, expressed as a dimensionless number, derived from measurements of smoke obscuration versus time for a material tested in accordance with ASTM E 84.
What is a Smoke-Developed Index?
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