Business Continuity & Disaster Recovery
Building Standards and Codes, Fire Safety Services
Your Business Challenge
Service providers need to protect themselves and their critical equipment from damage or loss from fire. In order to do so, they must keep current of all new fire protection technologies, codes, and requirements.
With so many new safety codes emerging and constantly changing, however, companies sometimes find it difficult to stay abreast of them and feel the financial burden of continuously having to update to new technologies. Service providers need a cost-effective method of adhering to the new codes as well as having a say in their development.
We have your solution
Our Risk Management experts can help service providers stay “up-to-code” with the evolving building, fire, and electrical safety requirements – including the new International Codes – while enabling them to have cost-effective input into the building standards and codes process.
We hold two fire protection forums each year. These popular forums offer participating companies the opportunity to exchange fire protection strategies, procedures, successes, and "lessons learned."
Telcordia is represented on all model building and fire codes, the International Building and Fire Codes, NFPA Panel 1 of the National Electrical Code, and NFPA’s new standard on telecommunications. We are a principle member of the NFPA Telecommunications committee and an active participant in the development of the telecommunications standard.
Over the years, we have saved telecommunications companies millions of dollars by thwarting proposed code changes aimed at modifying or eliminating many of their exemptions.
In addition to providing your organization with representation on National and International standards and codes bodies, we can provide you with direct technical consulting on fire protection issues, as well as on state and local code and ordinance issues. This may include technical support and assistance in negotiating with local “Authorities Having Jurisdiction” such as fire marshals and building code officials.
Benefits
Our expert advice, analysis, and recommendations on fire safety issues should help your company protect itself from damage caused by a fire, and avoid costly penalties by not complying with new safety codes and standards. Specifically, the fire safety services offered by Telcordia include:
- Extensive experience in all aspects of fire protection, detection, and suppression strategies
- Highly respected experts, recognized credibility and integrity in the standards and codes forums
- Strict focus on communications, undiluted by conflicting demands of other industries
- Professional and accurate reports on all code change hearings and meetings
- Special Reports and practices on a multitude of fire protection measures, such as detection and alarming, compartmentation, suppression, fire alarm maintenance, fire extinguisher selection, and halon replacements
- Unified voice and representation for a majority of telecommunications service providers
- Databases of national code and facility challenges to industry exemptions