Presenter: Ron Cote, NFPA 

NFPA 101, Life Safety Code, permits equivalent systems to serve in lieu of strict compliance with prescriptive requirements. NFPA 101A, Guide on Alternative Approaches to Life Safety, offers Fire Safety Evaluation Systems (FSES) for measuring equivalency against the prescriptive requirements of NFPA 101 for many occupancies. Come and learn about the equivalency concept, be exposed to tools for measuring equivalency for life safety, determine whether you’re up to the task of performing an equivalency analysis yourself, and hear about revised features of the 2013 edition of NFPA 101A.