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Construct safer manufactured housing with the 2005 NFPA 501!

NFPA 501 covers all the equipment and installations used in the design, construction, transportation, fire safety, plumbing, heat-producing, and electrical systems of manufactured homes.

Changes in this edition expand coverage with:

• Added criteria regarding stairs
• Updated provisions regarding protection against wind loads
• New provisions on protection against seismic events
• New information regarding the use of wood structural panels, composite wood. structural panels, oriented strand board wood structural panels, and plywood
• New requirements concerning energy conservation
• New provisions on securing water heating appliances

Provisions are also provided that correlate the Standard with NFPA 255: Method of Test Surface Burning Characteristics of Building Materials .