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National Farm Building Code of Canada
What's New
Updating of the NFBC
The Canadian Commission on Building and Fire Codes, with advice from the
Provincial / Territorial Policy Advisory Committee on Codes, has agreed
to work on updating the requirements for large farm buildings with a view
to incorporating these updates into the 2015 National Building and National
Fire Codes. The new requirements will be objective-based to match the format
of these documents.
Further consultation is required for small farm buildings to ascertain how they should be handled in the national model codes.
The 1995 National Farm Building Code of Canada (NFBC) provides relaxations of the requirements in the National Building Code (NBC) to address the particular needs of farm buildings. It applies to farm buildings of low human occupancy and contains minimum requirements on matters affecting human health, fire safety and structural sufficiency. All dwelling units on a farm, as well as farm buildings that do not qualify as a "low human occupancy" (i.e. an occupant load of not more than one person for each 40 m2) must comply with the NBC or the applicable provincial code.
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