Bukowski, R.
(2002),
Protection of Firefighters under the Building Codes, NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR), National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, MD, [online], https://tsapps.nist.gov/publication/get_pdf.cfm?pub_id=861093
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Protection of Firefighters under the Building Codes
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Historically in the United States and in most other countries the building codes have been silent on the subject of the protection of firefighters. As these largely prescriptive codes have been replaced by performance-based codes that are based on explicit statements of objectives this issue has surfaced. In several countries this has been the topic of lively debate. This paper is intended to raise the major issues and to focus the debate in the hope of achieving some level of international consensus.Citation
NIST Interagency/Internal Report (NISTIR) - 6812
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6812
Volume
155
Issue
1
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NIST Pubs
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building codes, fire codes, firefighter safety, performance-based codes
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Created January 1, 2002, Updated August 6, 2009