Amendments to the Fire Protection and Life Safety Provisions of the New York City Building Code by Local Laws Adopted While World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 Were in Use. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation of the World Trade Center Disaster.
Amendments to the Fire Protection and Life Safety
Provisions of the New York City Building Code by Local
Laws Adopted While World Trade Center 1, 2, and 7 Were
in Use. Federal Building and Fire Safety Investigation
of the World Trade Center Disaster.
(267 K)
Razza, J. C.; Grill, R. A.
NIST NCSTAR 1-1G; 54 p. September 2005.
Keywords:
World Trade Center; high rise buildings; building
collapse; disasters; terrorists; terrorism; fire safety;
fire investigaions; fire protection; life safety;
building codes; compartments; elevators (lifts); power
supplies; fire alarm systems; fire protection;
sprinklers; inspection; interior finishes; egress;
venting; pressurization; communication networks
Abstract:
This report was prepared to support the analysis of
building and fire codes and practices of the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) World Trade
Center (WTC) Investigation. This report suppons the
objective of documenting the requirements that governed
the design and construction of WTC 1, 2 and 7. The
purpose of this report is to provide an evolution of the
life safety provisions of the Building Code of the City
of New York (BCNYC) since the design of WTC 1 and WTC 2,
including retroactive provisions for existing high-rise
office towers. ft has been previously established that
WTC 1 and WTC 2 were designed and constructed in
accordance with the BCNYC as enacted by Local Law No. 76
for the year 1968, effective December 6, 1968. The
evolution of the BCNYC begins with a brief history of
the Building Code prior to 1968 and reviews the various
local laws that have amended fire protection and life
safety provisions of the Code from 1968 until the
collapse of the WTC towers on September11, 2001.
