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BS 9991:2011

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Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings. Code of practice
Available format(s)

Hardcopy , PDF

Superseded date

10-31-2015

Language(s)

English

Published date

12-31-2011

Foreword
Section 1: General
Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General recommendations and background
Section 2: Designing means of escape
5 General
6 Means of escape and provision for rescue from houses
7 Means of escape from flats and maisonettes
8 Means of escape from sheltered, extra care and other
   special housing
9 Internal planning of flats
Section 3: Stairs and final exits
10 Number and siting of common stair
11 Width of common stairs
12 Enclosure of common stairs
13 Basement stairs
14 Stairs within mixed-use developments
15 Access lobbies and corridors to protected stairways
16 External stairs
17 Discharge from common stairs and final exits
Section 4: Access and facilities for fire-fighting
18 General recommendations for fire-fighting facilities
19 Fire-fighting access
20 Water supplies for fire and rescue service fire-fighting
   use
21 Information for fire and rescue service use
Section 5: Active fire protection
22 Fire detection and alarm systems
23 Sprinkler and watermist systems
24 Manual fire-fighting equipment
25 Special risk protection
26 Smoke control
Section 6: Design for construction
27 Fire resistance
28 Compartmentation
29 External fire spread and building separation
30 Concealed spaces
31 Materials
32 Service ducts, pipes and shafts
33 Glazed fire-resisting elements
34 Active fire curtain/barrier assemblies
35 Openings
interconnecting dwellings and other residential units
38 HVAC systems within individual dwellings
39 HVAC systems serving the whole building or interconnecting
   dwellings and other residential units
Section 8: Ancillary accommodation to flats andmaisonettes
40 Ancillary accommodation
41 Installation of engineering services
42 Engineering service installation rooms
43 Gas services, installation and service pipes
44 Electrical services
45 Gas and electricity meters
46 Lighting
47 Lift machine rooms and machinery spaces
48 Communal heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems
49 Refuse storage, disposal and incineration
50 Car parks and domestic garages
Section 9: Management
51 Management of sheltered housing
52 Evacuation of disabled occupants or occupants that
   require assistance toescape
53 Residents
54 Caretakers
55 Maintenance of fire protection measures
56 Maintenance of building plant and equipment
57 Ensuring that systems respond properly in an emergency
Section 10: Building works: Material alterations, extensions,
            refurbishment, change of use, disuse, decommissioning
            and demolition
58 Design of works
59 Change of use
60 Refurbishments
61 Dwellings in disuse and areas decommissioned
62 Managing building work and material alterations
63 Building works to occupied or partly occupied buildings
Annexes
Annex A (normative) - Additional considerations for property
        and business continuity protection
Annex B (normative) - Atria
Annex C (normative) - Private Balconies (open or enclosed)
Annex D (informative) - Advice to occupiers of dwellings in
        residentialbuildings
Annex E (informative) - Methods of smoke control
Bibliography

Specifies recommendations and guidance on the design, management and use of building types, to achieve reasonable standards of fire safety for all people.

This British Standard gives recommendations and guidance on the design, management and use of the following building types, to achieve reasonable standards of fire safety for all people in and around: dwellings (single-family dwelling houses, self-contained flats or maisonettes); residential accommodation blocks (e.g. for students or hospital staff), with individual bedrooms and the provision of kitchen/sanitary facilities constructed within a fire compartment, accommodating not more than six persons; sheltered housing and extra care housing. It is not applicable to hotels, caravans/mobile homes, hospitals, residential care/nursing homes, places of lawful detention, hostels or houses of multiple occupancy. This British Standard is applicable to the design of new buildings, and to material alterations, extensions and material change of use of an existing building. It also provides guidance on the ongoing management of fire safety in a building throughout the entire life cycle of the building, including guidance for designers to ensure that the overall design of a building assists and enhances the management of fire safety. It can be used as a tool for assessing existing buildings, although fundamental change in line with the guidelines might well be limited or not practicable. NOTE 1 See the Building (Amendment) Regulations 2011 [1] regarding the definition of material alterations, extensions and material change of use. The recommendations and guidance given in this British Standard are intended to safeguard the lives of building occupants and fire-fighters. Whilst some of the recommendations and guidance might also assist in the achievement of other fire safety objectives – such as protection of property, the environment, communities and business/service viability – additional measures might be necessary which are outside the scope of this British Standard. This British Standard does not cover fire safety design strategies for extreme events such as terrorist actions. NOTE 2 Requirements for means of escape from caravans and mobile homes are given in BS 3632. NOTE 3 Refer to section 255 of the Housing Act 2004 [3] regarding the definition of an HMO.

Committee
FSH/14
DevelopmentNote
Supersedes BS 5588-1(1990). (12/2011) Supersedes 11/30203947 DC. (01/2012)
DocumentType
Standard
Pages
168
PublisherName
British Standards Institution
Status
Superseded
SupersededBy
Supersedes

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