BS 9991:2015
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The latest, up-to-date edition.
Fire safety in the design, management and use of residential buildings. Code of practice
Hardcopy , PDF
English
30-11-2016
Foreword
Section 1: General
0 Introduction
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General recommendations
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 specialized housing
9 Internal planning of flats and maisonettes
Section 3: Active fire protection
10 Fire detection and fire alarm systems
11 Automatic fire suppression systems
12 Manual fire-fighting equipment
13 Special risk protection
14 Smoke control
15 Power supplies, cabling and installation
Section 4: Design for construction
16 Fire resistance
17 Compartmentation
18 External fire spread and building separation
19 Concealed spaces
20 Materials
21 Service ducts, pipes and shafts
22 Glazed fire-resisting elements
23 Active fire curtain/barrier assemblies
24 Openings
25 Floors and ramps on escape routes
26 Design and construction of common stairs
Section 5: Stairs and final exits
27 Number and siting of common stairs
28 Width of common stairs
29 Enclosure of common stairs
30 Basement stairs
31 Stairs within mixed-use developments
32 Access lobbies and corridors to protected stairways
33 External stairs
34 Discharge from common stairs and final exits
Section 6: Mechanical systems for ducted heating,
ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)
35 HVAC systems within individual dwellings
36 HVAC systems serving the whole building or
interconnecting dwellings and other residential units
Section 7: Ancillary accommodation to flats and maisonettes
37 General recommendations for ancillary accommodation
38 Places of special fire hazard
39 Installation of engineering services
40 Engineering service installation rooms
41 Gas services, installation and service pipes
42 Electrical services
43 Gas and electricity meters
44 Lighting
45 Lift machine rooms and machinery spaces
46 Communal heating, ventilation and air conditioning
systems
47 Refuse storage, disposal and incineration
48 Car parks and domestic garages
Section 8: Access and facilities for fire-fighting
49 General recommendations for fire-fighting facilities
50 Fire-fighting access
51 Water supplies for fire and rescue service fire-fighting use
52 Information for fire and rescue service use
Section 9: Management
53 Management of specialized housing
54 Evacuation of disabled occupants or occupants that
require assistance to escape
55 Residents
56 Caretakers
57 Maintenance of fire protection measures
58 Maintenance of building plant and equipment
59 Ensuring that systems respond properly in an emergency
Section 10: Building works: Material alterations, extensions,
refurbishment, change of use, disuse, decommissioning
and demolition
60 Design of works
61 Change of use
62 Refurbishments
63 Dwellings in disuse and areas decommissioned
64 Managing building work and material alterations
65 Building works to occupied or partly occupied buildings
Annexes
Annex A (informative) - Methods of smoke ventilation
Annex B (normative) - Additional recommendations for
property protection and business continuity
Annex C (normative) - Atria
Annex D (normative) - Private balconies (open or enclosed)
and communal roof gardens
Annex E (informative) - Management of additional needs
and disabilities
Annex F (informative) - Advice to occupiers of dwellings in
residential buildings
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