Technical Booklet E Fire Safety·Page 104·4.17

Provision of compartment walls and compartment floors - all purpose groups

Compartment walls must be constructed where walls are common to two or more buildings or divide a building into separated parts, and where parts of a building are in different purpose groups.

In buildings of all purpose groups – (a) a compartment wall should be constructed where a wall – (i) is common to two or more buildings; or (ii) is provided to divide a building into separated parts; and (b) a compartment wall or a compartment floor, as appropriate should be constructed to separate parts of a building which are in different purpose groups of Appendix A.

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