Chapter 7 — FIRE AND SMOKE PROTECTION FEATURES

Section 721 — PRESCRIPTIVE FIRE RESISTANCE

2025 California Building Code (Title 24, Part 2) · 2025 edition · ingested 2026-07-07 · California

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721.1 General.

721.1 General. The provisions of this section contain prescriptive details of fire-resistance-rated building elements, components or assemblies. The materials of construction specified in Tables 721.1(1), 721.1(2) and 721.1(3) shall be assumed to have the fire-resistance ratings prescribed therein. Where materials that change the capacity for heat dissipation are incorporated into a fireresistance-rated assembly, fire test results or other substantiating data shall be made available to the building official to show that the required fire-resistance-rating time period is not reduced. ables…

721.2 Cellular concrete. [HCD 1 & HCD 2]

721.2 Cellular concrete. [HCD 1 & HCD 2] 721.2.1 Use and application. [HCD 1 & HCD 2] Controlled-density cellular concrete, when used or applied, shall be in accordance with the use of materials in Bulletin No. 65 of the Federal Housing Administration, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development. Exceptions: 1. Regardless of the provisions of Subsections 3.2, 3.3, 3.4 and 3.6 in Section 3, Bulletin No. 65 provisions relating to propor- tioning, mixing and testing, in the following shall apply to this chapter. 1.1. Field-control weighings for control of the wet-unit weight shall…