Help safeguard lives and property from fire risks by complying with requirements for accurately measuring the potential heat of building materials.

NFPA^® 259, Standard Test Method for Potential Heat of Building Materials, provides a means of determining a property-type measurement of the amount of heat that can possibly be given off by building materials when exposed to a heat source. A must-have for fire test labs, manufacturers, fire protection engineers, and fire researchers, the 2023 edition contains changes to Annex B and updates to reference documents.

NFPA 259 covers:

• Test apparatus and materials
• Test specimens
• Oxygen bomb calorimeter test procedures
• Electric muffle furnace test procedures
• Calculating potential heat
• And more