- Industry: Fire safety
- Number of terms: 98780
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Established in 1896, NFPA's mission is to reduce the worldwide burden of fire and other hazards on the quality of life by providing and advocating consensus codes and standards, research, training, and education.
A monitoring station under the same ownership as the property(ies) being monitored.
Industry:Fire safety
A monitoring station that is owned by a governmental body that monitors nongovernmental properties.
Industry:Fire safety
A mortised bolt installed near the top or bottom of the inactive leaf of a pair of doors in which the bolts are manually extended or retracted into or out of the header or sill by means of a lever.
Industry:Fire safety
A monitoring station having the same ownership as the property(ies) being monitored.
Industry:Fire safety
A space inside or outside the hoistway, intended to be accessed with or without full bodily entry, that contains elevator or dumbwaiter mechanical equipment, and could also contain electrical equipment used directly in connection with the elevator or dumbwaiter. This space could also contain the electrical driving machine or the hydraulic machine.
Industry:Fire safety
A structural system with bearing walls providing support for all or major portions of the vertical loads. Shear walls or braced frames provide seismic force resistance.
Industry:Fire safety
A structural plastic panel in the plane of the roof, fastened to roof members, that transmits light into the structure.
Industry:Fire safety
A structural panel that is made of layers of veneer and wood-based material.
Industry:Fire safety
A structural member normally of an open āUā truss-type design that includes the rungs and comprises the base or fly section of an aerial ladder.
Industry:Fire safety
