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NI-wide·Technical Booklet E Fire Safety

The fire safety aspects of the Building Regulations are made for securing reasonable standards of health and safety of people in and about buildings. This is intended to include all people, including

NI-wide·Technical Booklet E Fire Safety

In certain buildings it may be advantageous to design the escape stairways on the concept of phased evacuation. With phased evacuation the first people to be evacuated are those on the floor of the fi

NI-wide·Technical Booklet E Fire Safety

In such a building, or part of a building – (a) every escape stairway should be approached through a protected lobby or protected corridor at each storey, other than at a top storey consisting exclusi

NI-wide·Technical Booklet E Fire Safety

Refuges are relatively safe areas for disabled people, with a disability or other impairment which may slow or restrict their ability to exit, to wait for short periods before completing their evacuat

NI-wide·Technical Booklet E Fire Safety

Diagram 2.12 Refuge in a stair Provision where access to the wheelchair space is counter to the access flow within the stairway

NI-wide·Technical Booklet E Fire Safety

Each refuge should provide an area accessible to a wheelchair of at least 900 mm x 1400 mm in which a wheelchair user can await assistance. Where a refuge is in a protected stairway or protected lobby

NI-wide·Technical Booklet E Fire Safety

To facilitate the effective evacuation of people temporarily waiting in each refuge an emergency voice communication system should be provided. It is essential that the occupants of each refuge are ab

NI-wide·Technical Booklet E Fire Safety

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