Building Regulations: Technical Standards Part E: page 1

Building Regulations: Technical Standards

PART E: MEANS OF ESCAPE FROM FIRE, FACILITIES FOR FIRE-FIGHTING AND MEANS OF WARNING OF FIRE IN DWELLINGS

INTRODUCTION
REGULATION 13
	Means of escape from fire, facilities for fire-fighting and means of warning of fire in dwellings
THE STANDARDS
E1	Application of Part E	1990 equivalent (as amended June 1994)
E1	General		E1.1-E1.4
E2	Escape routes and Travel Distance
	Provision of exits and escape routes		E2.1
	Means of escape for disabled people		E5.1
	Minimum number of exits in relation to occupancy capacity		E2.3
	Minimum number of exits in relation to height or depth of a storey		E2.4
	Requirements of an escape route		no equivalent
	Maximum travel distance related to available directions of travel		E2.5
	Measurement of travel distance		E2.71-E2.73
E3	Design for Horizontal Escape
	General requirements for escape routes and exits		E2.11-E2.13
	Clear height of escape routes or circulation areas		E2.10
	Width of escape routes		E2.6-E2.7
	Means of escape in storage areas with fixed obstructions		E2.66
	Means of escape in a room or space with fixed seating, fixed tables and other fixed obstructions		E2.63-E2.65
	Escape routes: direction of escape		E2.73-E2.74
	Lighting of escape routes and circulation areas		E2.43
E4	Design for Vertical Escape
	Width of escape stairs		E2.8-E2.9
	Calculation of appropriate capacity		E2.75-E2.76
	Protected zone: escape stair enclosure and external escape stairs		E2.31-E2.35
	Protected zone: separation between adjoining escape stairs		E2.36
	Protected zone: escape stairs in a central core		E2.37
	Protected zone: escape stairs serving both upper storeys and basement storeys		E2.40
	Protected zone: external walls of escape stair enclosures exposed to fire in the building		E2.41
	Protected lobby: single stair escape provision		E2.38
	Protected lobby: buildings with a storey at a height of more than 18 m		E2.39
E5	Doors across Escape Routes
	General		E2.18, E2.19, E2.23-E2.24
	Method of securing exit doors		E2.28
	Fire doors and directional signs		E2.25
	Fire doors: hold open devices		E2.26-E2.27
E6	Internal Fire Spread
E6	General		E2.42
E7	General Requirements
	Galleries		E2.29
	Openings between floors		no equivalent
	Rooftop plant rooms		E2.5
	Places of special fire risk		E2.67
	Mechanical ventilation systems		E2.69
	Emergency lighting		E2.44
E8	Special Requirements for Certain Building Types
	Purpose group 1 (dwellings)
	Ducted warm air heating		E2.59
	Inner room		E2.49, E2.60
	Emergency escape windows		no equivalent
	Purpose sub-group 1A (flats and maisonettes)
	General		E2.46
	Escape route and travel distance		E2.5
	Width of escape route		E2.6
	Flats and maisonettes: single escape stair		E2.54
	Flats and maisonettes in a building with more than one escape stair		E2.55
	Open access balconies or access decks		E2.57
	Flats and maisonettes in a building with accesses common to accommodation of different purpose groups		E2.58
	Exit doors and stairs to basements in flats and maisonettes		E2.47 (in part)
	Internal layout of flats entered at accommodation level		E2.50
	Internal layout of flats entered from below accommodation level		E2.51
	Internal layout of flats entered from above accommodation level		E2.52
	Internal layout of maisonettes		E2.53
	Flats and maisonettes: facilities for fire-fighting		E3.4-E3.7
	Purpose sub-group 1B (Houses with a storey at a height of more than 4.5 m)		E2.60
	Hospitals (purpose sub-group 2A)		E2.61
	Buildings containing auditoria		E2.65
	Air supported structures		E2.68
	Enclosed shopping centres with malls		new 1999
E9	Facilities for Fire-Fighting
	Access		E3.1
	Ground hydrants		E3.2-E3.3
	Provision of fire-fighting shafts,fire-lifts and fire mains		E3.11-E3.18
	Fire-fighting outlets		E3.8-E3.10
	Venting of heat and smoke from basement storeys		E3.14
	Emergency access windows		E2.49, E2.60, E2.62
E10	Means of Warning of Fire
	Automatic fire detection in dwellings		E4.1
	Automatic fire detection in enclosed shopping centres with malls		new 1999

PROVISIONS DEEMED TO SATISFY THE STANDARDS
(E2.2)	Means of escape for disabled people
(E3.1), (E3.4)	General requirements for escape routes
(E4.4)	Calculation of appropriate capacity
(E5.1)	Pressurisation
(E5.2),(E5.4) ,(E5.5)-(E5.6)	Fire doors (Signs)
(E5.4)	Method of securing exit doors
(E5.7)	Fire doors: hold open devices
(E6.1)	Internal fire spread
(E7.6)	Mechanical ventilation systems
(E7.7)	Emergency lighting
(E8.3)	Emergency escape windows
(E8.8), (E8.9)	Buildings of purpose sub-group 1A
(E8.11)	Flats and maisonettes in a building with accesses common to accommodation in other purpose groups
(E8.19)	Hospitals (Purpose sub-group 2A)
(E8.20)-(E8.21)	Buildings containing auditoria
(E8.23)	Air supported structures
(E9.1)	Access
(E9.2)	Ground hydrants
(E9.4), (E9.7)	Fire-fighting shafts
(E9.9)	Fire-fighting lifts
(E9.12)-(E9.13)	Fire mains
(E9.20)	Venting of heat and smoke from basement storeys
(E9.21)	Emergency access windows
(E10.1)	Automatic fire detection in dwellings
(E10.2)	Automatic fire detection in enclosed shopping centres with malls

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.

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