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This document offers a broad range of options for protecting wood structures from damage and thereby significantly reducing the cost of repairs. It identifies and describes the options available to protect existing and new residential and commercial wood structures from decay, fungi, and termites. Specific details on the use of treated wood, soil treatments, naturally durable species, suitable construction techniques, and appropriate maintenance practices that will prevent damage are included. A broad range of options to permit the most appropriate selection of protection techniques suitable to the geographic location, the site, and the type of construction is provided. [53 Pages/1993] Catalog No. 4010-1 | Member Price: $10 | Non-Member Price: $15

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This report is the result of a five year project undertaken by NIBS in response to a request by the administrator of the Health Care Financing Administration (HCFA) resulting from amendments to the Social Security Act where Congress mandated that all institutional health care facilities receiving federal funds provide adequate fire safety protection for patients and personnel. A balanced project committee concluded that the nation’s three model code systems, 1988 editions or newer, protect occupants in new health care facilities to at least the same extent as the 1988 Life Safety Code even though some methods for achieving the protection differ; that existing health care facilities complying with the new construction criteria and maintained in accordance with the model codes protect occupants to at least the same extent as the Life Safety Code; and that with respect to operations and maintenance, the model codes protect occupants of health care facilities to at least the same extent as the 1988 Life Safety Code with certain exceptions. [120 Pages/1993] Catalog No. 5098-9 | Member Price: $20 | Non-Member Price: $25

Research Recommendations

This report is the sixth iteration in a continuing cooperative effort between the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Building and Fire Research Laboratory and NIBS. It represents the exchange of information and ideas between the research sector and other building sectors. The detailed research recommendations were developed through subcommittees made up of volunteers with extensive expertise in environment, fire research, materials, and structures. The Executive Summary describes the highest priority in each of the four areas of research. Each project listing provides a short description of the suggested research area, the committee’s commentary and evaluation, and the name and telephone number of the project contact. The report is used by NIST in its long-range planning and identification of funding requests. Members of the building community can use the report to keep themselves abreast of the latest building related research conducted at federal and private sector laboratories. [106 Pages/1994] Catalog No. 5069-0 | Member Price: $10 | Non-Member Price: $12.50

Land Development Regulations Handbook

A monograph on land-use guidelines for increasing the supply of affordable housing through strategies for zoning, comprehensive planning, plan review techniques, residential density, residential streets, water, sewer and storm water management, financing infrastructure and designing for sensitive sites and soil erosion control. For use by local planning commissioners, developers, architects, builders, and elected and appointed officials. [88 Pages/1990] Catalog No. 5093 | Price: $10

Hospital User Manual Series Guidelines

Model Manuals to Guide Hospital/Building Start-Up. This series of manuals was developed to improve the useful documentation of important technical information about complicated building systems decisions made during the design/construction process. The purpose is to facilitate the transfer of information from the design and construction team to those who use, operate, and maintain complex medical facilities. The manuals serve as scopes-of-work from which to develop specific manuals for individual facilities. The manuals address the practical needs of new facilities as well as those of additions to, and renovations of, existing structures. [4 Volumes/218 Pages/1988] Catalog No. 5039-0 | Member Price: $80 | Non-Member Price: $85

Volume 1: Model Facility Description and Documentation Manual
Volume 2: Start-Up Manual
Volume 3: Operations Manual
Volume 4: Maintenance Manual

Building Product Approval and Acceptance Process

A comprehensive report on the building product approval and acceptance practices in the United States. The study deals with the fundamentals of effective building product approval processes. It contains recommendations by the Institute's 140-member building product approval project approval process through effective self and third party certification, listing, labeling and marking programs. [209 Pages/1987] Catalog No. 5022-3 | Member Price: $25 | Non-Member Price: $30

Lifelines are those systems upon which society relies heavily to provide it with energy and water and facilitate transportation and communication. This report to the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) identifies activities that lifeline and natural hazard reduction experts believe should be initiated in the coming years to launch a nationwide program to begin to better protect the nation's lifelines. [59 pages/1989] Catalog No. 5047-8 | Member Price: $7 | Non-Member Price: $11