NFPA 914 PDF

Help protect historic property and preserve human history through modern-day fire and security standards.

Help preserve property of the past using fire safety and security protocols of the present with NFPA^® 914, Code for the Protection of Historic Structures. This comprehensive code provides insight into state-of-the-art technologies and strategies to help protect a broad scope of significantly historic structures from those who visit, use, or operate them.

The newly updated edition for 2023 includes features such as:

• Guidance that covers fire protection, security, resiliency, and preservation
• Requirements and conditions for fire protection and life safety system commissioning and testing
• Approval as an American National Standard
• Updates to Chapter 14 for coordination with NFPA 241, Standard for Safeguarding Construction, Alteration, and Demolition Operations
• Clarification of the fire protection system impairment requirements
• Recognition of hybrid and aerosol fire extinguishing systems in accordance with NFPA 770, Standard on Hybrid (Water and Inert Gas) Fire-Extinguishing Systems, and NFPA 2010, Standard for Fixed Aerosol Fire-Extinguishing Systems
• New reference and extract updates.