- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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A building in which the sales area includes the storage of combustible materials on pallets, in solid piles, or in racks in excess of 12 ft (3. 7 m) in storage height.
Industry:Fire safety
A building intended to be used primarily as a long-term residence, not including transient lodging, inpatient medical care, licensed long-term care, and detention or correctional facilities.
Industry:Fire safety
A building in which finished consumer fireworks are received, stored, and shipped but in which no manufacturing is performed.
Industry:Fire safety
A building having only one common wall with another building having other types of occupancies.
Industry:Fire safety
A building housing any occupancies having low or ordinary hazard contents and having direct access to a mall building, but having all required means of egress independent of the mall.
Industry:Fire safety
A building erected or officially authorized prior to the effective date of the adoption of this edition of the Codeby the agency or jurisdiction.
Industry:Fire safety
A building construction method that incorporates exterior wall or roof sections, or both, designed to relieve deflagration pressures without jeopardizing the structural integrity of the building and without allowing the deflagration to propagate into adjacent interior spaces.
Industry:Fire safety
A building construction material not complying with the definition of noncombustible material that, in the form in which it is used, has a potential heat value not exceeding 3500 Btu/lb (8141 kJ/kg), where tested in accordance with NFPA 259, Standard Test Method for Potential Heat of Building Materials, and complies with (a) or (b): (a) materials having a structural base of noncombustible material, with a surfacing not exceeding a thickness of 1⁄8 in. (3. 2 mm) that has a flame spread index not greater than 50; and (b) materials, in the form and thickness used, other than as described in (a), having neither a flame spread index greater than 25 nor evidence of continued progressive combustion and of such composition that surfaces that would be exposed by cutting through the material on any plane would have neither a flame spread index greater than 25 nor evidence of continued progressive combustion. (Materials subject to increase in combustibility or flame spread index beyond the limits herein established through the effects of age, moisture, or other atmospheric condition shall be considered combustible. )
Industry:Fire safety
