However it is important to remember that the guidance in the annexes is in addition and supplementary to the guidance to Standard 2.1 to 2.15. Although primarily addressing the use of automatic sprinklers, much of the guidance is also applicable to other types of automatic fire suppression systems.Īnnexes - due to the special fire precautions within residential care buildings, hospitals, and enclosed shopping centres, additional guidance is grouped in the annexes. The ABI have produced guidance ‘ABI Study: Post Grenfell Research on Residential Sprinkler Systems’ on issues to be considered to improve performance and in the procurement of residential and domestic sprinklers which is available on the ABI website. Although only a relatively small proportion of this was due to leakage from automatic fire suppression systems, it does nonetheless reinforce the need to ensure that all water supply pipework in buildings, including those serving automatic fire suppression systems, is designed, installed and maintained correctly. While supporting the installation of automatic fire suppression systems in buildings, the Association of British Insurers (ABI) advises that claims involving the escape of water are increasing year on year, costing the insurance industry in Britain £892 million in 2019.
There is on average 152 fires in Scottish schools each year that result in significant costs in terms of the damage and disruption they cause.įor the purposes of this standard a school is a building in which primary and or secondary education is given. The sustainability of communities could be served by the protection against both deliberate and accidental fires in buildings such as schools that serve as social assets and components of the local economic network. A primary objective of the building standards system however is to ‘further the achievement of sustainable development’. Property protection - concerns about fire have traditionally centred on life protection rather than asset protection. A smaller fire means that the fire and rescue service will be able to bring the fire under control and extinguish it much more quickly. In some cases, the fire might be extinguished if the fire is not shielded from the sprinkler spray. The spray pattern delivered from the heads should control fire spread, reduce temperatures and dilute the smoke. Automatic suppression may provide some benefit to occupants in the room of fire origin where for example the fire growth is fast and the temperatures allow the sprinkler system to open early in the development phase of the fire.
Life safety - automatic fire suppression systems react to heat therefore, the greatest protection is afforded to those occupants outwith the room of fire origin. The primary role of the suppression system may be for life safety or property protection. It can provide occupants, including vulnerable occupants, with the additional time necessary to escape following the outbreak of fire. Automatic fire suppression systems help control the intensity and size of a fire, suppress it and in some cases may even extinguish it.
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