Codes / Standards

**Special Order** NFPA 54, National Fuel Gas Code provides industry-accepted guidance for the safe installation and operation of fuel gas piping systems, appliances, equipment, and accessories. The 2018 edition includes updates based on recognized risks, recent research, and the techniques, materials, developments, and construction practices in use today.

NFPA 720, Standard for the Installation of Carbon Monoxide (CO) Detection and Warning Equipment provides rules for installation, location, performance, inspection, testing, and maintenance of carbon monoxide detection and warning equipment in all types of structures. This edition has been revised to make CO equipment more effective and reliable. Everyone from manufacturers to installers, maintainers, inspectors, and emergency personnel needs to know about updates in this edition.

In addition to updating rules for in-building fire emergency voice/alarm communication systems, a new Emergency Communications System chapter addresses in-building and wide-area MNSs.

Major updates in the 2022 edition of NFPA 72, National Fire Alarm and Signaling Code, include the following: Cybersecurity; Remote access to fire alarm and signaling systems for resetting, silencing, or operation of emergency control functions; Use of remote access to perform diagnostics and update software from anywhere; Numerous changes to detector technologies and methods, and much more.

Includes all of the administrative codes and policies of the North Carolina State Building Codes.

The 2018 North Carolina State Building Code is a fully integrated code based on the 2015 International Building Code.

This is a fully integrated code based on the 2015 International Energy Conservation Code.

North Carolina State Building Code: Mechanical Code 2018 This is a fully integrated code based on the 2015 International Mechanical Code.

North Carolina State Building Code: Plumbing Code 2018 This is a fully integrated code based on the 2015 International Plumbing Code.

North Carolina State Building Code: Residential Code 2018 This is a fully integrated code based on the 2015 International Residential Code.

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Ugly’s Electrical References, 2023 Edition is the essential on-the-job reference tool for electrical industry professionals. The 2023 Edition provides the most pertinent, up-to-date information used by electricians, including updated NEC code and table change information; mathematical formulas; NEMA wiring configurations; conduit bending guide; ampacity and conduit fill information; transformer and control circuit wiring diagrams; and conversion tables

The Uniform Swimming Pool Spa and Hot Tub Code is the only model code governing the installation, inspection and maintenance of swimming pool, spa and hot tub systems and their component products. This is an ANSI designated American National Standard consensus document written by representatives from industry companies, inspectors, plumbers and engineers.

**SPECIAL ORDER** A Premier water treatment textbook. Product innovations and more than 50 years of industry experiences have refined a full-line of solutions to correct and/or remove both normal and unusual contaminants from home and business water supplies. Water Processing provides: - Those entering the field with basic background of the many technologies and - a comprehensive resource to those already active in the business of water quality improvement.

Throughout the United States and around the world, NFPA 70: National Electrical Code (NEC) sets the foundation for electrical safety in residential, commercial, and industrial occupancies. The 2017 edition of this trusted Code presents the latest comprehensive regulations for electrical wiring, overcurrent protection, grounding, and installation of equipment. Major additions reflect the continuing growth in renewable power technology. Other NEC revisions protect the public and workers from deadly hazards. Work with the latest requirements governing public and private buildings, homes, and structures; outdoor yards and lots; utility equipment; installations that connect to the power grid; and consumer-owned power generation systems and equipment. The 2017 NEC is better aligned with the safe work practices in NFPA 70E: Standard for Electrical Safety in the Workplace. (Softbound, 888 pp., 2017)

Manual S shows you how to select and size heating and cooling equipment to meet loads for a particular home, which are based on local climate and home construction specifics. Contractors in Miami, Phoenix, and Seattle - all extremely different climates - would never use the same equipment and expect the same results. Manual S provides sizing requirements for 11 types of cooling and heating equipment, as well as in-depth explanations and examples of how to use manufacturer's performance data.

The “Building Code Requirements for Structural Concrete” (“Code”) provides minimum requirements for the materials, design, and detailing of structural concrete buildings and, where applicable, nonbuilding structures. This Code addresses structural systems, members, and connections, including cast-in-place, precast, plain, nonprestressed, prestressed, and composite construction.

The Building Code Requirements for Masonry Structures (TMS 402-08/ACI 530-08/ASCE 5-08) covers the design and construction of masonry structures. It is written in such form that it may be adopted by reference in a legally adopted building code.

This comprehensive code compiles all building, plumbing, mechanical, fuel gas and electrical requirements for one- and two-family dwellings in one convenient code. The regulations cover dwellings and townhouses up to three stories.

This standard provides technical criteria for making sites, facilities, buildings, and elements accessible. The intent of this standard is to allow a person with physical disability to independently get to, enter, and use a site, facility, building, or element.

For electrical work in a changing world, update to the 2014 National Electrical Code. Expanded AFCI and GFCI protection in homes, continued emphasis on making installations safe for electrical workers, New Code coverage of new methods to distribute low voltage power, new approaches toward ensuring the safety of photovoltaic (PV) electric systems, plus hundreds of other revisions that allow for the safe implementation of the latest in electrical system and equipment technology. America’s most widely adopted Code is evolving. 3,700 proposals and 1,600 comments reveal the scope of advancements in the 2014 National Electrical Code® (NEC®). Be prepared to use the latest technologies and protect people from electrical hazards. Update to the new benchmark for safe electrical design, installation, and inspection!

Updated through January 2023, the book provides a comprehensive set of the most up-to-date Construction regulations. Utilizing MANCOMM’s signature formatting approach – RegLogic – this edition includes notations for changes within the past year and letters of reference.

Invaluable to anyone who wants an in-depth understanding of thermal insulation, Insulation Handbook, by Richard T. Bynum and Daniel L. Rubino, is a thorough guide to all the important methods, materials, and concepts associated with it, along with sound problem-solving advice. You’ll slash construction time and costs while maximizing energy efficiency with this “A-Z” overview of residential installation.