NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives, 2025 Edition

ISBN: 1455931535

Author: NFPA

Condition: New

NFPA 80, Standard for Fire Doors and Other Opening Protectives, offers comprehensive provisions for installing, inspecting, testing, and maintaining these life-saving fire protection systems. It provides general performance requirements for all types of fire door assemblies as well as fire windows, dampers, fabric safety curtains, and protective curtain assemblies. This critical standard ensures these components perform as intended to limit the spread of fire and smoke within buildings and is referenced in NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, building codes, and fire codes across the United States and around the globe. If you are responsible for building fire safety, there is no substitute for the 2025 edition, which features: Changes to Chapter 3, including revisions to damper definitions and a new definition for label service Changes to Chapter 4, including reorganization of requirements based on door types, new requirements for glazing in wood doors, new extracted requirements for classification of noncombustible, and revisions to clearance requirements Changes to Chapter 5, including the deletion of requirements for field labeling and new requirements for the inspection, testing, and maintenance of special-purpose, horizontally sliding accordion or folding doors Updates to Chapter 6, including new requirements pertaining to mitigating excessive clearances, new requirements for listing and labeling of door closing devices, and revisions to requirements for test standards for pivots New Chapter 17 added for horizontal fire door assemblies Changes to Chapter 20 (formerly Chapter 19), Installation, Testing and Maintenance of Dampers, including new requirements for operability, prevention of blockage, and replacement of dampers; visual inspection for dampers using remote inspection methods; and a performance-based design options for inspection, testing, and maintenance New requirements in Chapter 22 (formerly Chapter 21), Fire Protective Curtain Assemblies, for listing and labeling of automatic-closing devices