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Life Safety for Dormitories, Classrooms & Assembly
The NFPA Life Safety Code is among the most widely adopted NFPA consensus products; having issued its First Edition in 1913. Free public access to the current edition is linked below:
2018 NFPA 101 Life Safety Code
Since the 2009 revision we have focused our attention on three chapters that directly influence the safety and sustainability agenda of the US education facility industry:
Chapters 12 & 13 / Assembly Occupancies. A great deal of the square-footage under the stewardship of educational organizations are lecture halls, theaters, athletic venues, et al.
Chapters 14 & 15 / Educational Occupancies. An occupancy used for educational purposes through the tweflth grade by six or more persons for 4 or more hours per day, et al
Chapter 18 & 19 / Health Care Occupancies. We limit our interest to university-affiliated healthcare enterprise square footage; though we recognize that there is very little difference in life safety concepts between university affiliated and private/corporate healthcare facilities. Many corporate healthcare enterprises are “branded” with university affiliations because relationships with teaching and research enterprises is good for business. Where there are differences in life safety for healthcare facilities lie in the electrotechnologies of stand-alone campuses which we follow with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee.
Chapters 28 & 29 / Hotels and Dormitories. A building in which group sleeping accommodations are provided for more than 16 persons, et al.
The foregoing definitions received more granular treatment in Chapter 3 and “roughly” correlate with changes in International Code Council consensus products.
We find an above average number of user-interest technical committee members on NFPA 101 committees; notably Lee County School District (Florida), Florida School Boards Association, University of Kentucky, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, Fairfax County Public Schools, US Department of the Air Force, Anne Arundel County Public Schools, University of Texas at Austin, Drexel University, University of Michigan, Indiana University Health.
We applaud these organizations and experts because a school district, college or university makes a long-term investment in such expertise. This is far from the case in other areas of the $300 billion annual spend of the US education facility industry (See our ABOUT)
Most of our work since the 2009 edition involved proposing more specifics about student residence halls — especially kitchen fire safety. We believed, and still believe, that student dormitories are different from hotels, documented in the link below:
We continue to follow action in the foregoing sections of NFPA 101 and link the transcripts of the technical committee on residential occupancies:
After the Second Draft Report is released on or before January 22, 2020 we will have until February 19, 2020 to submit more public comment on decisions made during the Second Draft development through the NITMAM process.
We keep the Life Safety Code on the agenda of our monthly Fire Protection and our Design Guidelines & Specifications teleconference. All teleconferences are open to everyone with two clicks. See our CALENDAR for the next online meetings.
National Fire Protection Association
For the last century, local, state, and federal governments have relied on private non-profit organizations like NFPA to develop the codes that are adopted into law to protect public safety. The cost of developing the codes is covered not by taxpayers but by the standards organizations themselves, who recover those costs through their ownership of the copyrights in the codes and standards. “Even though we own those copyrights, NFPA strives to make its documents as accessible as possible, because we believe this is the best way to accomplish our mission,” says NFPA President Jim Shannon. NFPA is proud to have been the first organization to have taken the bold step of creating free public access to privately developed codes and standards.
Installation of Air-Conditioning and Ventilating Systems
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Electrical Load Study / Phase 2
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The American Society for Healthcare Engineering is funding a second phase of an NFPA Fire Protection Research Foundation project to support development of future revisions to the National Electrical Code. The first phase of this project, titled Evaluation of Electrical Feeder and Branch Circuit Loading Study, was completed in 2017 and has been covered in previous posts (CLICK HERE).
The Phase 2 prospectus is linked below:
NFPA FPRF PROJ SUMM – Elec Circuit Data Collection)
Minutes from the last online teleconference:
FPRF NFPA MTG SUMMARY – Electrical Circuit Data Collection 2019Aug12 Issue 16-111
Even though the results of the Phase 2 will not be available until after the 2020 NEC is published, the results of the Phase I study have already put NFPA 70 committees on notice that closing the divergence between observed electrical loading and the loading required by the NEC for fire safety reasons must narrow — for both safety and sustainability reasons — in future revisions; with healthcare facilities among the highest priority facility class.
For more specific information about how to contribute to the Electrical Safety Research Advisory Committee, or to participate, please feel free to communicate directly with Casey Grant (cgrant@nfpa.org).
We coordinate our advocacy in each of the NFPA 70-series of documents with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee which meets 4 times per month in European and American time zones. We also devote an two hours every month to sweep through the status of all Electrical Power and Telecomunications codes and standards. See our CALENDAR for the next online meeting; open to everyone.
Issue: [16-111]
Category: Electrical, Public Safety, Risk Management
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Larry Ayers, Chad Beebe, Jonathan Flannery, Casey Grant, Jim Harvey, Christel Hunter, David Hittinger, Daleep Mohla, Dev Paul
LEARN MORE:
FPRF NFPA MTG SUMMARY – Electrical Circuit Data Collection 2019Aug12 Issue 16-111
NFPA FPRF MTG SUMMARY – Electrical Circuit Data Collection 2019Apr30)
Electrical Circuit Data Collection RFP Due March 27th
Mazzetti /Healthcare Device Requirements – Why research now
Digital Content Production
“Commedia dell’arte Troupe on a Wagon in a Town Square” 1640 Jan Miel
Last update: March 19, 2021
Education communities are one of the settings for digital media production centers that service massive open online curricula and cultural performance facilities for teaching and entertainment. On many campuses now, reading rooms and libraries have been replaced with spaces that are dense with electro-technologies that require attention to sound, lighting, heat generation and shock prevention.
For the people responsible for creating a satisfactory experience for education industry “customers”, the art of electrical grounding at lower voltages is subtle and often vexing. One would imagine that after more than 100 years of commercial electrical power that the problem of grounding has been solved; but you would be mistaken. Innovation streams in electro-technology; presenting technicians renewed challenges as these systems — which we broadly call Digital Content Production Facilities — evolve to meet the challenges of merging teaching with entertainment; on-campus or on the internet. There are several consensus and open-source safety standards developers in the space; all of whom claim some part of it.
Montana State University
Accredited standards developers who claim to set the standard of care for some part of this facility class are as follows::
- National Fire Protection Association; fire safety
Article 520 Theaters Audience Areas of Motion Picture and Television Studios, Performance Areas and Similar Locations
Article 522 Control Systems for Permanent Amusement Attractions
Article 525 Carnivals, Circuses, Fairs and Similar Events
Article 530 Motion Picture and Television Studios and Similar Locations - International Code Council; means of egress
- American Society of Heating and Refrigeration Engineers; indoor air quality
- Institution of Electrical and Electronic Engineers Industrial Applications Society; building premise electrical safety
- Underwriters Laboratories; audio-visual products and accessories
- Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers; standards setting for motion imaging
- Entertainment Services and Technology Association; pulls together all codes and standards to meet the business objectives of the entertainment industry.
- International Electrotechnical Commission; TC 108 deals with audio-visual, information and communication technology*
- PLASA (Professional Lighting and Sound Association)
- AVIXA (Formerly INFOComm)
There are other consortia and open source standards in this domain.
Mid-America Technology Center | Wayne, Oklahoma
CLICK HERE for free access to the 2020 National Electrical Code. We focus our concern on event definitions, temporary power cords, specialty connecting devices, arc fault circuit interrupters and grounding. Comparatively speaking, these technical specifics have stabilized in recent revision cycles.
Public input for the 2023 revision of the so-called “song-and-dance” (lively art) part of the NEC is linked below:
2023 National Electrical Code Code-Making Panel 15
A simple search on “Standards Michigan” in this transcript will reveal that the lively art parts of the NEC are stable. Because the song-and-dance CMP-15 is also charged with a similarly risky occupancy — healthcare facilities — we limited our advocacy resources to healthcare facilities in this cycle.
The Joint IEEE Committee has been meeting this week (March 18-19) on preparing IEEE responses to proposed revisions for the 2023 NEC.
Consultation on proposed revisions for the 2023 NEC is due September 10th.
Standards Michigan collaborates closely with IEEE committees that do most of the heavy-lifting for the user-interest in the education industry in the NFPA suite. While we are happy to drill into the details any day at 11 AM Eastern time more enlightened discussion occurs during collaborations with the IEEE Education & Healthcare Facilities Committee which meets again twice monthly. Coordination of IEEE and NFPA consensus documents have been permanent items on the standing agenda but we find, on a near-weekly basis, new organizations entering the digital content space.
University of Southern California | Glory Kaufman School of Dance
Issue: [99-3, 7-6, 12-80, 16-138, 19-154, 20-6]
Category: Electrical, Telecommunications, Fire Protection, Arts & Entertainment Facilities, Lecture Halls
Colleagues: Mike Anthony, Matt Dozier, Jim Harvey, Ryan Lawless, Nehad El-Sherif
LEARN MORE: This occupancy class in the education industry has been growing for the better part of twenty years now. Links to some examples are listed below:
University of Michigan Duderstadt Center Audio Studios
Specs Howard School of Media Arts
Arizona State University School of Media, Arts and Engineering
* A great deal of equipment installed in this facility class originates in non-US electrical product markets.
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