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Revised on a three year cycle, ga600 has been referenced by the model building codes as a source of fire resistive designs for more than 40 years. Ga 600 fire resistance design manual sound control. Most of these brochures are available for free as a pdf download. Department of veterans affairs december 2015 fire protection design manual 1 department of veterans affairs fire protection design manual introduction the primary goal of this manual is to provide an environment for occupants that is reasonably safe from fire and products of combustion.
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