The LPC Design Guide for the Fire Protection of Buildings

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The DESIGN GUIDE for the FIRE PROTECTION of BUILDINGS

Size: 1.57 MB | Format: PDF | Publisher: Fire Protection Association | Year: 1999 | pages: 320 | ISBN: 1902790022

The Design Guide is applicable to:
• All new buildings, excluding dwelling houses, maisonettes and flats for which the provisions of the supporting documents to Building Regulations are considered to provide adequate property protection;
• Major extensions and the refurbishment and upgrading of existing buildings within the occupancy types covered. The recommendations of the Design Guide dealing with compartmentation (Part 3) recognise that institutional and other residential buildings, including hotels, typically do not contain large undivided compartments. In the United Kingdom the design and construction of new buildings and alterations to existing buildings are controlled by the following legislation of which the prime objective is life safety:
England and Wales: The Building Regulations;
Scotland: The Building Standards (Scotland) Regulations;
Northern Ireland: The Building Regulations (Northern Ireland).
The Design Guide for the Fire Protection of Buildings should be used by the building designer in conjunction with the documents supporting the appropriate regulations cited above. This Design Guide adopts many of the structural fire resistance levels given
in Approved Document B to the Building Regulations and provides guidance to enable these to be achieved. However, it is essential to recognise that that the approach of building regulations will often be inadequate to satisfy property and business protection objectives and the increased risk management standards required. Approved Document B states that ‘The protection of property, including the building itself, may require additional measures, and insurers will in general seek their own higher standards . . .’ Such additional measures, including increased levels of fire resistance are designed to ensure, amongst other things, that as far as possible the fire can be restricted to the compartment of origin throughout its duration. This is fundamentally different to building regulations, which are concerned with life safety and, where as a result, compartmentation may be inadequate to prevent major damage after escape from the building has been satisfactorily accomplished. This is particularly true for many large single-storey, industrial buildings in respect of which the building regulations have very little influence, and where means of escape requirements can often be satisfied without resort to any form of compartmentation. The Design Guide replaced the LPC Code of Practice for the Construction of Buildings in November 1996, which was then withdrawn. Regular updating of the Design Guide is undertaken as required

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