Fire Design Safety For Architects

Combining knowlede aquried over the last ten years, this 50 page document is an architects guide to fire safetey from a lecture Russell gave at a university. It includes important information relating to designing buildings in according to British Building Regulations. The document also includes references to the actual codes and where they can be located. This enables you go go directly to the code and read more information about it.

Some of the topics include:

-Disclaimer
-Part B Document Dwellings & Non Dwellings
-Classes Of Buildings
-Purpose Groups
-Designing For Horizontal Escape
-Travel Distances In One Or Two Directions
-General Commercial & Office Buildings
-Flats / Apartments
-Hotels
-Width Of Escape Routes & Exits
-Designing For Vertical Escape
-Escape Stair & Feature Stair
-Number Of Escape Stairs & Single Escape Stair
-Stair Sizes / Width Calculation
-Disabled Refuge
-Guarding & Handrails Both Sides?
-Children under 6
-Final Escape Door
-Use of Space in protected stair
-External Escape Stair
-Basement Stairs
-Stair Pressurization
-What is it?
-Fan
-Fire Fighting Shafts
-Designing For Fire Separation / Fire Strategy
-Compartment walls Floors
-Penetrations to Fire Barriers
-Dampers
-Fire Doors
-Fire Resistance Of Doors
-Fire Door Requirements
-Cladding
-Non – Combustible Materials
-Summery