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NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

(e) if where necessary an evacuation alert system is installed for use by the fire and rescue service; (f) if where necessary there is sufficient storey identification signs and dwelling indicator sig

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

It is the view of the Department that the requirements of Regulation 37A in Part E will be met if the person responsible for the building has all the necessary fire safety information to enable them t

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

The guidance in section 7 is concerned with ensuring the person responsible for a building has the necessary as-built information relating to fire safety matters to enable them to manage the building

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

It is the view of the Department that the requirements of Regulation 37B in Part E will be met when a suitable automatic fire suppression system is provided where it is necessary. The key characterist

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

(b) it should be designed primarily to protect lives rather than property, which means it should be fitted with faster responding sprinkler heads; and (c) it should be a fire suppression system, one d

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

Automatic fire suppression systems help control the intensity and size of a fire, suppress it and in some cases may even extinguish it. They are designed primarily for life safety purposes and can pro

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

After paragraph 2.34, insert – "Smoke control in common escape routes 2.34A The smoke control in common escape routes should be in accordance with the relevant recommendations of BS 9991 and the provi

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

(d) an automatic sprinkler system should be installed in accordance with Section 8 throughout the building where the building has a storey more than 30 m above ground level;

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

Diagram 6.0 Components of a firefighting shaft See paras 6.3A and 6.6 a. Any building b. Firefighting shafts serving flats Fire main outlet Fire main outlet Firefighting Firefighting Common Firefight

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

A firefighting lift is required if the building has a floor more than 18m above, or more than 10m below, fire service vehicle access level.

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

A minimum of two firefighting shafts (each containing a firefighting lift) should be provided to buildings with a storey that has a floor area of 900 m2 or more and a floor level 18 m or more above fi

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

A minimum of two firefighting shafts (which do not need to include a firefighting lift) should be provided to buildings where 6.3(b) applies.

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

If the building is fitted throughout with a sprinkler system in accordance with Section 8, then sufficient fire-fighting shafts should be provided so that every part of every storey is no more than 60

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

If the building is not fitted with sprinklers, then every part of every storey should be no more than 60 m from a fire main in a fire-fighting shaft and in addition 45 m from a fire main outlet in a p

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

Note 1: Distance should be measured from the fire main outlet on a route suitable for laying a hose. Note 2: If the internal layout is not known, direct distances may be used for assessment. The direc

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

Diagram 6.1B Location of firefighting shafts: hose laying distances See para 6.3C With sprinklers: 60m hose laying distance Without sprinklers: 45m hose laying distance Floor plan within 60m hose la

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

Firefighting shafts should be designed and constructed in accordance with the relevant recommendations BS 9999. Where a building falls within paragraph 6.3(a) or (c) all firefighting shafts should hav

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

50 m

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

the basement has a sprinkler system fitted in accordance with Section 8; and

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

all points within

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

all points within each individual dwelling

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

In a building containing flats with a top storey more than 11 m above ground level, an evacuation alert system (EAS) should be provided in accordance with BS 8629. The system should enable the fire an

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

An evacuation alert system is not, and should not be confused with, a fire alarm system. The EAS should not be integrated with a fire detection and fire alarm system (or any other system), nor should

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

To assist the fire and rescue service to identify each floor in a building containing flats with a top storey more than 11 m above ground level, floor identification signs and flat indicator signs sho

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

The floor identification signs should meet all of the following—(a) the signs should be located on every landing of a protected stairway and every protected corridor/lobby (or open access balcony) int

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

The floor number designations should meet all of the following conditions—(a) The floor closest to the mean ground level should be designated as either Floor 0 or Ground Floor; (b) Each floor above th

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

Each floor below the ground floor should be numbered sequentially beginning with Floor -1 or Basement 1.

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

All floor identification signs should be supplemented by flat indicator signs, which provide information relating to the flats accessed on each storey. The flat indicator signs should meet all of the

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

A building containing flats with a top storey more than 11 m above ground level should be provided with a secure information box.

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

The box should meet all of the following conditions— (a) sized to accommodate all necessary information; (b) easily located and identified by firefighters (c) secured to resist unauthorised access but

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

Best practice guidance can be found in Sections 2 to 4 of the 'Code of Practice for the Provision of Premises Information Boxes in Residential Buildings' published by the Fire Industry Association (FI

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

all active fire safety measures, including both of the following i. Sprinkler system(s) design (whether as a compensatory feature or otherwise), including isolating valves and control equipment; and i

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

vii. cctv; viii. fire safety signage; ix. emergency lighting; x. fire extinguishers; xi. dry or wet fire mains and other firefighting equipment; xii. other interior facilities for the fire and rescue

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

For the purpose of guidance to satisfy Regulation 37B, sprinklers are the only suitable form of automatic fire suppression system referenced in this Technical Booklet.

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

This Technical Booklet requires automatic sprinkler provision – (a) where phased evacuation is employed in a building with a storey more than 30 m above ground level (see paragraph 2.66); (b) in certa

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

A building shall be designed and constructed with a suitable automatic fire suppression system. This regulation applies only to— (a) a building, containing one or more flats, with a storey more than 1

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

Table 4.2 Minimum periods of fire resistance Purpose group of building | Minimum period (minutes) for elements of structure and other components of the building forming part of Basement storey+ inclu

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

BS 5867: Specification for fabrics for curtains and drapes Part 2: 1980 (1993) Flammability requirements AMD 4319 July 1983. BS 6387: 2013 Test method for resistance to fire of cables required to mai

NI-wide·Amendments Booklet AMD 9 2025 (Booklets E R)

Part 8: 2023 Design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of voice alarm systems. Code of practice Part 9: 2021 Code of practice for the design, installation, commissioning and maintenance of