Technical Booklet E Fire Safety·Page 177·8.4
Sprinklers as Compensatory Feature
The Technical Booklet recommends sprinkler provision as a compensatory feature for various building elements including shop store-rooms, raised storage floors, floor areas and volumes, space separation, firefighting shafts, and basement venting.
This Technical Booklet gives further recommendations for the provision of sprinklers as a compensatory feature in relation to – (a) shop store-rooms (see paragraph 2.103); (b) raised storage floors (see paragraph 4.14); (c) maximum floor areas and volumes of buildings or compartments (see Table 4.4); (d) provisions for and calculation of space separation and unprotected areas (see paragraph 5.13); (e) location of firefighting shafts (see paragraph 6.3C); and (f) mechanical venting of basements (see paragraph 6.16).
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