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NFPA 3 – Standard for Commissioning of Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems
۲۰۲۱ Edition
This edition of NFPA 3, Standard for Commissioning of Fire Protection and Life Safety Systems, was prepared by the Technical Committee on Commissioning and Integrated Testing. It was issued by the Standards Council on March 15, 2020, with an effective date of April 4, 2020, and supersedes all previous editions.
This edition of NFPA 3 was approved as an American National Standard on April 4, 2020.
Origin and Development of NFPA 3
The 2012 edition of NFPA 3. Recommended Practice for Commissioning and Integrated Testing of live Protection and Life Safety Systems, represented NFPA’s first document outlining a systematic approach to provide documented confirmation that fire protection and life safety systems function as intended by the owner and the design team. The genesis of this document was a request from the National Institute of Building Sciences (NIBS) to provide a commissioning document for fire protection systems that would be part of a conglomeration of commissioning documents that could be used to create a total building commissioning program.
NFPA 3 addresses the administrative and procedural concepts of fire protection and life safety system commissioning and also provides direction on the integrated system tests.
This document is designed to identify the commissioning team members, their qualifications, and their roles and responsibilities throughout the commissioning process. Chapter 5 addresses the concept of commissioning from the incipient stages of a project through to the occupancy and operation of the facility. Throughout the commissioning process, there are several key documents that must be identified in the recommended practice, such as the Owner’s Project Requirements (OPR) and the Basis of Design (BOD), which provide direction to the commissioning team members as they are executing the commissioning plan. These documents, which are generated during the design phase, are implemented during construction.
NFPA 3 also addresses retro-commissioning and re-commissioning of existing buildings. For existing buildings that have never been commissioned, a retro-commissioning plan can be developed and executed to establish a benchmark for the facility. Existing buildings that have been previously commissioned are periodically re-commissioned and compared to the compliance benchmarks established in the original commissioning plan.
NFPA 3 contains many forms that are available to assist in project documentation and the implementation of the commissioning program.
The largest modification to NFPA 3 for the 2015 edition was the removal of Chapter 7 from the 2012 edition. This chapter addressed integrated system testing as part of the overall fire protection and life safety system commissioning concept. The Technical Committee on Commissioning and Integrated Testing determined that while commissioning fire protection systems was not ready for standardization, there was an imminent need to create a standard for testing integrated fire protection and life safety systems. The technical committee requested to separate the concepts of commissioning and integrated system testing into two documents: the first, a recommended practice on commissioning; and the second, a new standard, NFPA 4, Standard for Integrated Fire Protection and Life Safety System Testing, addressing the integrated system testing portion. This restructuring and request for a new project was approved by the Standards Council in October 2011 and resulted in Chapter 7 of the 2012 edition of NFPA 3 being removed for the 2015 edition and using it as the basis for NFPA 4.
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