scope:

This standard shall apply to the design, installation, acceptance testing, operation, and ongoing periodic testing of smoke control systems.

Purpose.

The purpose of this standard shall be to establish requirements for smoke control systems to accomplish one or more of the following:

(1) Inhibit smoke from entering stairwells, means of egress, smoke refuge areas, elevator shafts, or similar areas

(2) Maintain a tenable environment in smoke refuge areas and means of egress during the time required for evacuation

(3) Inhibit the migration of smoke from the smoke zone

(4) Provide conditions outside the smoke zone that enable emergency response personnel to conduct search and rescue operations and to locate and control the fire

(5) Contribute to the protection of life and to the reduction of property loss

The requirements specifying the conditions under which a smoke control system shall be provided are addressed by other codes and standards.

Specific design objectives are established in other codes and standards.

NOTICE: An asterisk (*) following the number or letter designating a paragraph indicates that explanatory material on the paragraph can be found in Annex A.

A reference in brackets [ ] following a section or paragraph indicates material that has been extracted from another NFPA document. Extracted text may be edited for consistency and style and may include the revision of internal paragraph references and other references as appropriate. Requests for interpretations or revisions of extracted text shall be sent to the technical committee responsible for the source document.

Information on referenced and extracted publications can be found in Chapter 2 and Annex N.