2018 International Fire Code
"The IFC contains regulations to safeguard life and property from fires and explosion hazards. Topics include general precautions, emergency planning and preparedness, fire department access and water supplies, automatic sprinkler systems, fire alarm systems, special hazards, and the storage an...
| Corporate Authors: | International Code Council. |
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| Format: | Books Print Book |
| Language: | English |
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Country Club Hills, IL :
International Code Council, Inc.,
2017.
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Table of Contents:
- PART I: ADMINISTRATIVE
- Scope and administration
- Definitions
- PART II: GENERAL SAFETY PROVISIONS
- General requirements
- Emergency planning and preparedness
- PART III: BUILDING AND EQUIPMENT DESIGN FEATURES
- Fire service features
- Building services and systems
- Fire and smoke protection features
- Interior finish, decorative materials and furnishings
- Fire protection and life safety systems
- Means of egress
- Construction requirements for existing buildings
- Energy systems
- Chapters 13 through 19: Reserved for future use
- PART IV: SPECIAL OCCUPANCIES AND OPERATIONS
- Aviation facilities
- Dry cleaning
- Combustible dust-producing operations
- Motor fuel-dispensing facilities and repair garages
- Flammable finishes
- Fruit and crop ripening
- Fumigation and insecticidal fogging
- Semiconductor fabrication facilities.
- Lumber yards and agro-industrial, solid biomass and woodworking facilities
- Manufacture of organic coatings
- Industrial ovens
- Tents, temporary structures and other membrane structures
- High-piled combustible storage
- Fire safety during construction and demolition
- Tire rebuilding and tire storage
- Welding and other hot work
- Marinas
- Combustible fibers
- Higher education laboratories
- Processing and extrication facilities
- Chapters 40 through 49: Reserved for future use
- PART V: HAZARDOUS MATERIALS
- Hazardous materials: general provisions
- Aerosols
- 52. Reserved for future use
- Compressed gases
- Corrosive materials
- Cryogenic fluids
- Explosives and fireworks
- Flammable and combustible liquids
- Flammable gases and flammable cryogenic fluids
- Flammable solids
- Highly toxic and toxic materials
- Liquefied petroleum gases
- Organic peroxides
- Oxidizers, oxidizing gases and oxidizing cryogenic fluids
- Pyrophoric materials
- Pyroxylin (cellulose nitrate) plastics
- Unstable (reactive) materials
- Water-reactive solids and liquids.
- Chapters 68 through 79: Reserved for future use
- PART VI: REFERENCED STANDARDS
- Referenced standards
- PART VII: APPENDICES
- A. Board of appeals
- B. Fire-flow requirements for buildings
- C. Fire hydrant locations and distribution
- D. Fire apparatus access roads
- E. Hazard categories
- F. Hazard ranking
- G. Cryogenic fluids
- weight and volume equivalents
- H. Hazardous Materials Management Plan (HMMP) and Hazardous Materials Inventory Statement (HMIS) instructions
- I. Fire protection systems
- noncompliant conditions
- J. Building information sign
- K. Construction requirements for existing ambulatory care facilities
- L. Requirements for fire fighter air replenishment systems
- M. High-rise buildings
- retroactive automatic sprinkler requirement
- N. Indoor trade shows and exhibitions.