Fire compartment - Revision history

Designing Buildings at 15:11, 8 May 2024

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	* Unprotected escape route.		* Unprotected escape route.

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Designing Buildings at 09:11, 12 November 2020

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	* Protected stairway.		* Protected stairway.
	* Separated part.		* Separated part.
		+	* Sub-compartment.
	* Unprotected escape route.		* Unprotected escape route.

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Designing Buildings at 08:02, 3 September 2020

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	* Unprotected escape route.		* Unprotected escape route.

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Designing Buildings at 10:57, 19 November 2019

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	* Protected escape route.		* Protected escape route.
	* Protected stairway.		* Protected stairway.
		+	* Separated part.
	* Unprotected escape route.		* Unprotected escape route.

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Designing Buildings at 08:57, 1 November 2019

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	* Garages should be separated from attached houses by compartment walls and compartment floors.		* Garages should be separated from attached houses by compartment walls and compartment floors.
	* There are additional requirements for; flats, institutional buildings, other residential buildings and non-residential buildings.		* There are additional requirements for; flats, institutional buildings, other residential buildings and non-residential buildings.
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Designing Buildings at 07:21, 29 October 2019

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	‘… a building or part of a building comprising one or more rooms, spaces or storeys constructed to prevent the spread of fire to or from another part of the same building or an adjoining building. (A roof-space above the top storey of a fire compartment is included in that fire compartment.) A separated part of a building is a form of compartmentation in which part of a building is separated from another part of the same building by a compartment wall. Such walls run the full height of the part and are in one vertical plane.’		‘… a building or part of a building comprising one or more rooms, spaces or storeys constructed to prevent the spread of fire to or from another part of the same building or an adjoining building. (A roof-space above the top storey of a fire compartment is included in that fire compartment.) A separated part of a building is a form of compartmentation in which part of a building is separated from another part of the same building by a compartment wall. Such walls run the full height of the part and are in one vertical plane.’
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		+	Approved document B, Fire Safety, Volume 2, Buildings other than dwellinghouses (2019 edition), defines a fire compartment as: 'A building or part of a building,<br />
		+	comprising one or more rooms, spaces or storeys, that is constructed to prevent the spread of fire to or from another part of the same building or an adjoining building.<br />
		+	NOTE: A roof space above the top storey of a compartment is included in that compartment.'

	Approved document B defines a compartment wall or floor as a '...fire-resisting wall/floor used in the separation of one fire compartment from another.'		Approved document B defines a compartment wall or floor as a '...fire-resisting wall/floor used in the separation of one fire compartment from another.'
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Designing Buildings at 05:10, 30 September 2019

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	* Garages should be separated from attached houses by compartment walls and compartment floors.		* Garages should be separated from attached houses by compartment walls and compartment floors.
	* There are additional requirements for; flats, institutional buildings, other residential buildings and non-residential buildings.		* There are additional requirements for; flats, institutional buildings, other residential buildings and non-residential buildings.
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Designing Buildings at 07:55, 27 February 2019

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	* Compartment floor.		* Compartment floor.
	* Compartment wall.		* Compartment wall.
−	* Dry riser.
	* Escape route.		* Escape route.
	* External fire spread, Supplementary guidance to BR 187 incorporating probabilistic and time-based approaches.		* External fire spread, Supplementary guidance to BR 187 incorporating probabilistic and time-based approaches.
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	* Fire safety design.		* Fire safety design.
	* Fire-separating element.		* Fire-separating element.
		+	* Fire spread.
	* Fire-stopping.		* Fire-stopping.
	* Firefighting lift.		* Firefighting lift.
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	* Protected escape route.		* Protected escape route.
	* Protected stairway.		* Protected stairway.
−	* Thermal zone.
	* Unprotected escape route.		* Unprotected escape route.
−	* Wet riser.

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Editor at 15:57, 26 February 2019

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	* There are additional requirements for; flats, institutional buildings, other residential buildings and non-residential buildings.		* There are additional requirements for; flats, institutional buildings, other residential buildings and non-residential buildings.

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	* Approved Document J.		* Approved Document J.

Editor at 16:16, 28 January 2019

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	* Cavity barrier.		* Cavity barrier.
	* Compartment floor.		* Compartment floor.
		+	* Compartment wall.
	* Dry riser.		* Dry riser.
	* Escape route.		* Escape route.