41 CFR 102-71.40
§ 102-71.40 Analytical and empirical tools available to support the life safety equivalency evaluation.
United States · 41 CFR — Public Contracts and Property Management · Status: effective
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- 41 CFR 102-71.40, § 102-71.40 Analytical and empirical tools available to support the life safety equivalency evaluation, United States, version 1 as recorded 2026-07-09, yourstate.us, https://yourstate.us/provision/198276
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(a) Fire models and performance-based design methodologies such as those outlined in the Society of Fire Protection Engineers (SFPE) Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection and the National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) 101 Life Safety Code must be used to support the life safety equivalency evaluation.
(b) If fire modeling is used as part of an analysis, an assessment of the predictive capabilities of the fire models must be included. This assessment must be conducted in accordance with the SFPE Engineering Guide for Substantiating a Fire Model for a Given Application and the American Society for Testing and Materials “Standard Guide for Evaluating the Predictive Capability of Deterministic Fire Models” (ASTM E1355).
Legislative history
This is a federal regulation, adopted through agency rulemaking under the Administrative Procedure Act — not enacted by a recorded vote of Congress.