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

Protect building occupants and contents with the latest requirements for construction, protection, and occupancy features needed to minimize danger to life and property. The 2009 NFPA 5000: Building Construction and Safety Code® provides complete rules for new construction, building rehab, and safety enforcement. Be prepared to enhance safety in all types of occupancies. 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