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Given those high hazards and thus the high risk of a emergency event. I do not think your boss is safe in removing any already available exit. As he emplys more than 12 people his "risk assessment" must be written down and he must induct and instruct all employees on the "emergency ac...

Hi, A normal Car Park (building to the UK Building Regualtions norms) does not require automatic detection (to BS or EN codes) only a manual fire alarm. If the car park is enclosed then it has to have mech ventilation and that may even have a fan boost on fire mode or may have a fan off on fire mode...

Yes, but if I design a tall building and decide to install sprinklers, then I can build a cheaper building structure. As the Building Regualtions accept that such buildings are far safer and so relax minimum passive (fire resistance) requirements. Perhaps even let a developer leave out an expensive ...

The FSO is very clear. Any person having control over any part of a building is a "RP". All "RP"s involved in a buidling must co-operate on fire safety matters & general fire precautions. The Owner or landlord is an "RP" when there is no other "RP". Even i...

No, as far as I undestand it, there is no intension to print this. LGA are not "for profit" publishers.
But I bet the "C S Todd & Associates" will be brining out theuir guide to it, as they were commissioned to write it.

Hi, If this a new building on a new development site, then the Building Control Body (Private "Approved Inspector" or Local Council's "Building Control service") will have decided that this site & development "meets AD B5" or there is some compensating design featur...

Hi, As you say the buidling was built in 2002-3 it should have 2 layers of 12.5mm (1/2 inch) plasterboard, as a ceiling and that ceiling should not be holed by any service without adequate fire stopping. The flat above should have had sound insulation as well, from the noice of the shop. So hopefull...

Hi,
Any sub-division of a buidling into "units" as oppsed to "hot desk" sharing, does require a Building Regulations application.
In order to ensure that the means-of-escape is safe for all units.

John Bone (ex-building control surveyor)

Hi, The answers are in Vol 2 of the Approved Document for Fire Safety in the Building Regualtions 2010. In brief, if work-place (office, workshop, retail shop) has less than 18m travel distance (from all points where persons may be in the event of a fire) to a final exit, then ONE exit is acceptable...

No where in the regulatory reform order does it say "unless the owner does not want to"....

John Bone, MBEng, BSc Hons, ICIOB

Hi, Means of Escape : the Building has to Meet Building Regualtions, Fire Safety - Approved Document Part B - 2006 or The Building has to meet BS 5588 part 1 1990 if it is a dwelling or flat. The Building has to meet BS 9999:2008 if it is not a flat or house. If it is a school, there is the separate...

The last scene in that 1974 film is the following: “Upon the (towering) inferno being extinguished. The Tower’s Architect Roberts says to the few survivors that he does not know what will become of the now ruined building, but that perhaps it should be left as it is to symbolize all that is wrong wi...