Be prepared to meet the modern fire protection and life safety challenges of road bridges, tunnels, and limited access highways with the newly revised NFPA 502.

Arm yourself with a powerful resource for addressing risks and implementing appropriate safety systems with NFPA 502, Standard for Road Tunnels, Bridges, and Other Limited Access Highways. The 2020 edition offers the latest requirements for construction, operation, maintenance, and fire protection of limited-access highways, tunnels, bridges, elevated highways, and air right structures.

This international NFPA standard covers everything from emergency systems and response to traffic control and communications. You will find comprehensive provisions for ventilation, means of egress, electrical systems, standpipe and water supply, control of hazardous materials, and other critical information on mitigating dangers and safeguarding lives.

NFPA 502, 2020 edition, offers the most current requirements for structural protection and emergency readiness for road tunnels and bridges.

An essential tool for designers, engineers, architects, AHJs, and state and federal regulators, NFPA 502 is updated to account for the most current industry best practices and technological developments. The revised edition offers several impactful edits and additions, including:

• Updates to general requirements, to clarify that protection methods described assume a single fire event.
• Updates in section 6.11 as an analysis is required to be performed on joints of non-conventional and non-grid connections.
• Further explanations for Fixed-water-based fire-fighting systems (FFFS) throughout the code, as well as in several annex materials.
• Updates in Chapter 13 for the section on Operations Control Centers (OCCs).
• A new requirement for structural fire protection material per Subsection 7.3.4.
• New references to NFPA 72®, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code®, in Chapter 7 for automatic fire detection systems.

Be confident that you are working with cutting-edge information and requirements for limited-access highways, road tunnels, and bridges for improved public safety and compliance. Order your copy of NFPA 502, Standard for Road Tunnels, Bridges, and Other Limited Access Highways, today.