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Building Regulations: Technical Standards

PART D: STRUCTURAL FIRE PRECAUTIONS

INTRODUCTION
REGULATION 12
	Structural fire precautions
THE STANDARDS		1990 equivalent (As amended July 1993)
D1	Application of Part D	D1.1-D1.2
D2	Fire resistance and non-combustibility
	Fire resistance	D2.2
	Non-combustibility	D2.3
D3	Separation and Compartmentation
	Provision of separating walls and separating floors	D2.7
	Provision of compartment walls and compartment floors	D2.1
	Protected zones	no equivalent
	Protected enclosures	no equivalent
	Junctions between separating or compartment walls and roofs	D2.15
	Openings in separating walls or floors and compartment walls or floors	D2.11-D2.13
	Garages ancillary to dwellings	D3.2
	Lifts	D2.8
	Places of special fire risk	D2.9-D2.10
D4	Concealed Spaces (cavities)	D2.19-D2.21
D5	Protection of Openings and Fire-stopping
	Service openings	D2.16-D2.18
	Junctions between separating walls or separating floors or compartment walls or compartment floors	D2.14
D6	Distance of Sides of Buildings from Boundaries
	Buildings ancillary to houses	D3.1, D3.3
	Unprotected areas	D2.6
	Special requirements for a building of purpose sub-group 2A	no equivalent
	Roofs and rooflights	D3.5, D3.6
	External wall claddings	New 1999
D7	Special Requirements for Certain Building Types
	Shared residential accommodation of purpose sub-group 2B	D2.7
	Single storey building, or compartment of single storey building, of purpose group 4 (shops and commercial)	no equivalent
	Enclosed shopping centres with malls	New 1999

PROVISIONS DEEMED TO SATISFY THE STANDARDS
(D2.1)	Fire resistance
(D3.5)	Junctions between separating or compartment walls and roofs
(D3.10)	Places of special fire risk
(D4.1)	Concealed spaces (cavities)
(D5.1), (D5.2), (D5.3)	Service openings and Junctions between separating or compartment walls or floors and external walls
(D6.3)	Unprotected areas
(D6.7)	Roofs and rooflights
(D7.2)	Single storey building, or compartment of single storey building, of purpose group 4 (shops and commercial)
(D7.5)	Enclosed shopping centres with malls

APPENDIX TO PART D
	Methods of verifying compliance with performance standards

ASTERISKS
Throughout the Technical Standards an asterisk against a standard denotes that a provision deemed to satisfy the standard
or some aspect of the standard is specified at the end of the relevant Part.

ITALICS
Throughout the Technical Standards a term in italics is a defined term. The definition is listed in Part A, General.

Building Regulations: Technical Standards

PART D: STRUCTURAL FIRE PRECAUTIONS

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