Bộ trưởng Bộ Xây dựng ban hành Thông tư 06/2022/TT-BXD ngày 30/11/2022 về QCVN 06:2022/BXD Quy chuẩn kỹ thuật quốc gia về An toàn cháy cho nhà và công trình. Trong đó, quy định việc bố trí lối ra thoát nạn đối với nhà kinh doanh dịch vụ karaoke, vũ trường phải bảo đảm tất cả những yêu cầu sau: - Các tầng nhà của nhà kinh doanh dịch vụ karaoke, vũ trường phải có không ít hơn hai lối ra thoát nạn. - Cho phép từ mỗi tầng có một lối ra thoát nạn, khi thỏa mãn đồng thời các điều kiện sau: + Đối với nhà có chiều cao PCCC không quá 15 m thì diện tích mỗi tầng đang xét không được lớn hơn 300 m2. Đối với nhà có chiều cao PCCC từ trên 15 m đến 21 m thì diện tích mỗi tầng đang xét không được lớn hơn 200 m2. + Toàn bộ nhà được bảo vệ bằng hệ thống chữa cháy tự động. + Số người lớn nhất trên mỗi tầng không vượt quá 20 người. + Phải có thêm ít nhất một lối ra khẩn cấp từ các tầng nhà dẫn ra ban công thoáng, hoặc dẫn lên vùng an toàn trên sân thượng thoáng, hoặc dẫn ra cầu thang bộ loại 3 Chú thích: Ban công thoáng hoặc sân thượng thoáng nghĩa là hở ra ngoài trời và bộ phân bao che (nếu có) phải bảo đảm cho việc thoát nạn, cứu nạn dễ dàng khi lực lượng chữa cháy tiếp cận. Thông tư 06/2022/TT-BXD có hiệu lực từ ngày 16/01/2023 và thay thế Thông tư 02/2021/TT-BXD ngày 15/5/2021. \>> XEM BẢN TIẾNG ANH CỦA BÀI VIẾT NÀY TẠI ĐÂY MINISTRY OF CONSTRUCTION OF VIETNAM --- SOCIALIST REPUBLIC OF VIETNAM Independence - Freedom - Happiness ---- No. 06/2022/TT-BXD Hanoi, November 30, 2022 CIRCULAR ON THE QCVN 06:2022/BXD NATIONAL TECHNICAL REGULATION ON FIRE SAFETY OF BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTIONS Pursuant to the Law on Technical Regulations and Standards dated June 29, 2006; Pursuant to No. 127/2007/ND-CP dated August 01, 2007 of the Government elaborating the implementation of the Law on Technical Regulations and Standards and Decree No. 78/2018/ND-CP dated May 16, 2018 of the Government on amendment to the Decree No. 127/2007/ND-CP; Pursuant to Decree No. 52/2022/ND-CP dated August 8, 2022 of the Government on functions, tasks, powers, and organizational structures of Ministry of Construction; At request of Director of the Science - Technology and Environment Department; The Minister of Construction promulgates Circular on National technical regulation on Fire safety for Buildings and Constructions Article 1. The QCVN 06:2022/BXD National technical regulation on Fire safety for Buildings and Constructions is attached hereto. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Article 3. Ministries, ministerial agencies, Governmental agencies, People’s Committees of provinces and central-affiliated cities, and relevant organizations, individuals are responsible for the implementation of this Circular./. PP. MINISTER DEPUTY MINISTER Le Quang Hung QCVN 06:2022/BXD NATIONAL TECHNICAL REGULATION ON FIRE SAFETY OF BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTIONS TABLE OF CONTENTS ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2 FIRE-RELATED TECHNICAL CLASSIFICATIONS 3 HUMAN SAFETY ASSURANCE 4 FLAME SPREAD PREVENTION 5 WATER SUPPLY FOR FIREFIGHTING 6 FIREFIGHTING AND RESCUE 7 ORGANIZING IMPLEMENTATION APPENDIX A (regulations) ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS FOR SPECIFIC GROUPS OF BUILDINGS APPENDIX B (regulations) CLASSIFICATION OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS BASED ON FIRE-RELATED TECHNICAL CLASSIFICATIONS AND FIRE SAFETY REQUIREMENTS OF MATERIALS APPENDIX C (regulations) FIRE AND EXPLOSION RISK CLASSES OF BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTIONS, ROOMS WITH MANUFACTURING AND STORAGE PURPOSES ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. APPENDIX E (regulations) FIRE SEPARATION DISTANCE APPENDIX F (regulations) FIRE-RESISTANCE RATINGS OF SEVERAL MODULES APPENDIX G (regulations) DISTANCE TO EXIT ACCESSES AND WIDTH OF EXIT ACCESSES APPENDIX H (regulations) FIRE RESISTANCE CATEGORY AND FIRE SAFETY ASSURANCE REQUIREMENTS OF BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND FIRE COMPARTMENTS APPENDIX I (for reference) ILLUSTRATIONS Preface The QCVN 06:2022/BXD is developed by the Construction Science and Technology Institute (Ministry of Construction), jointly compiled by Vietnam Fire and Rescue Police Department (Ministry of Public Security), presented to the Ministry of Science and Technology for approval by the Science - Technology and Environment Department (Ministry of Construction), and issued under Circular No.06/2022/TT-BXD dated November 30, 2022 of the Minister of Construction. The QCVN 06:2022/BXD replaces the QCVN 06:2021/BXD attached under Circular No. 02/2021/TT-BXD dated May 19, 2021 of the Minister of Construction. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NATIONAL TECHNICAL REGULATION ON FIRE SAFETY OF BUILDINGS AND CONSTRUCTIONS 1 GENERAL PROVISIONS 1.1 Scope 1.1.1 This Regulation prescribes
1.1.2 This Regulation applies to the following buildings and constructions:
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NOTE: Construction classification shall conform to relevant law provisions. See Schedule 6 for specific constructions under 1.1.2. 1.1.3 In regard to buildings classified under fire risk categories F1.2, F1.3, F4.2, F4.3 by functions and multipurpose buildings with more than 150 m in fire height or at least 4 basements and buildings with fire prevention and fire protection properties different from those named under Schedule 6, in addition to adhering to this Regulation, other technical requirements and solutions pertaining to organization and building engineering appropriate to specific fire prevention and fire protection properties of these buildings must also be complied with on the basis of applied standard documents. NOTE: In regard to buildings using their 4th and 5th basements as parking spaces, regulations pertaining to underground parking garages must also be complied with in addition to this Regulation. 1.1.4 This Regulation applies to new construction of buildings and constructions named under 1.1.2 or:
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1.1.5 Section 2 through 6 do not apply to buildings with special occupancies (buildings and constructions associated with technology line of power generating facilities such as: hydroelectricity power plant, thermoelectricity power plant; wind power plant, solar power plant, geothermal power plant, tidal power plant, waste-to-energy plant, biomass power plant; biogas power plant; cogeneration power plant, air traffic control tower, manufacturing facilities or preservation facilities of explosive substances and materials; storage of petroleum, petroleum products, natural gas, flammable gas, and pyrophoric substances; filling stations of gas and oil, flammable liquid, flammable gas; manufacturing facilities or storage of toxic chemicals; national defense and security constructions; underground sections of subways; mines, and buildings with similar features). 1.1.6 Section 5 also does not apply to:
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If specific technical regulations and requirements under applicable standards pertaining to fire prevention and fire protection are less safe than those under this Regulation, those under this Regulation shall prevail. 1.1.8 Fire safety design documents and fire safety technical documents of buildings, structures, structural elements, and construction materials must specify fire-related technical characteristics of these structures in accordance with this Regulation. 1.1.9 When designing buildings and constructions, other mandatory regulations and technical requirements according to applicable laws must be complied with in addition to complying with this Regulation, such as: planning, architecture, structures, water supply and drainage system, electrical system, electrical appliances, lightning arrester, fuel supply system, energy efficiency, ventilating system, air conditioning system, mechanical system, safety use of glass, fall and collision prevention. 1.1.10 In some specific cases, several requirements under this Regulation can be replaced as long as technical evaluation is sent to the Ministry of Construction stating additional or replacement solutions and the basis thereof in order to maintain fire safety. This technical evaluation must be reviewed by the Ministry of Construction while construction design dossiers must be approved by competent fire and rescue police authority in accordance with fire prevention and firefighting laws. 1.2 Regulated entities This Regulation applies to organizations and individuals related to construction investment activities in Vietnamese territory. 1.3 Reference documents ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. QCVN 17:2018/BXD, National technical regulations on the construction and installation of outdoor advertising facilities. TCVN 3890, Fire protection - Fire protection equipment, firefighting systems for construction TCVN 5738, Fire protection - Automatic fire alarm system - Technical requirements. TCVN 7336, Fire protection - Water, foam automatic fire-extinguishing systems - Design and installation requirements. TCVN 9310-4, Fire protection - Vocabulary - Part 4: Fire extinction equipment. TCVN 9310-8, Fire protection - Vocabulary - Part 8: Terms specific to fire-fighting, rescue services and handling hazardous materials. TCVN 9311-1, Fire - resistance test- Elements of building construction - Part 1: General requirements. TCVN 9311-3, Fire - resistance test - Elements of building construction - Part 3: Commentary on test method and test data application. TCVN 9311-4, Fire - resistance test - Elements of building construction - Part 4: Specific requirements for load bearing vertical separating elements. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. TCVN 9311-6, Fire - resistance tests - Elements of building construction- Part 6: Specific requirements for beams. TCVN 9311-7, Fire – resistance test – Elements of building construction – Part 7: Specific requirements of columns. TCVN 9311-8, Fire - resistance test- Elements of building construction - Part 8: Specific requirements for non - load bearing vertical separating elements. TCVN 9383, Fire resistance test - Fire door and Shutter Assemblies. TCVN 12695, Reaction to fire tests for construction products - Non-combustibility test. TCVN 13456, Fire protection - Emergency lighting and Exit sign - Design, installation requirements 1.4 Definitions In this Regulation, the terms below are construed as follows: 1.4.1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Refers to fulfillment of requirements for construction material properties and structures, architectural solutions, planning, technical and technology solutions depending ton characteristics of constructions in order to prevent fire (fire protection), limit the spread, extinguish fire (fire prevention), prevent factors harmful for humans, and minimize property damage in case of fire. 1.4.2 fire engine parking space Refers to a road segment whose finished surface can withstand the calculated load, which is located along the circumference or in a part of the circumference of the buildings, which allows firefighting equipment to deploy firefighting activities. NOTE: In comparison with fire lane, fire engine parking space is design to withstand a greater load with a greater width for the deployment of firefighting equipment 1.4.3 fire protection Refers to a combination of methods and technical solutions adopted to prevent impact of fire on human and limit physical damage caused by fire. 1.4.4 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Refers to a categorized characteristic of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments determined by fire-resistance rating of structures/structural elements employed to build said buildings, constructions, and fire compartments. 1.4.5 fire protection assembly Refer to an apparatus employed to prevent fire and combustion products from spreading from a fire compartment or from a room with fire to other rooms. Includes fire-resistance-rated walls, fire-resistance-rated partitions, and fire-resistance-rated floors. 1.4.6 smoke barriers Refer to structures employed to divert, contained, and/or reduce the spread of smoke (gaseous product for a fire). 1.4.7 fire risk level of structural elements ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1.4.8 fire risk level of structures Refers to a characteristic of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments and is based on level of participation of their structures in development of the fire and formation of fire hazards. 1.4.9 building height for fire prevention and firefighting (fire height) Fire height of a building (excluding the topmost mechanical floor) is determined as follows: The maximum distance from fire lane to the lowest point of the opening (window) on the exterior wall of the highest storey; Half of total distance from fire lane to the floor and to the ceiling of the topmost storey - if no openings (windows) are located on the exterior wall. NOTE 1: If roof is utilized, fire height of the building shall equal the greatest distance from fire lane to the highest point of the wall surrounding the roof ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE 3: If balcony (loggia) or enclosing structures (guardrail) are built, fire height shall equal the greatest distance from fire lane to the highest point of the guarding structures (guardrail) or balcony (loggia). 1.4.10 height of solid stream Equals 0,8 times the height of a stream flowing vertically. 1.4.11 smoke outlet (flap, shutter) Refer to remotely controlled equipment (devices) which seals openings located on the exterior wall surrounding rooms protected by natural smoke extraction system. 1.4.12 hoistway door ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1.4.13 smoke inlet Refers to an opening in smoke extraction system to which mesh, bars, flaps, or normally closed fire dampers can be fitted. 1.4.14 accessible floor area Refers to the total floor area of all covered spaces within a building, including service ducts, lift shafts, toilets, staircases, areas occupied by fixed, moveable furniture, equipment, facilities, and any open-to-sky habitable areas above or below the first storey of the building. 1.4.15 fire lane Refers to a road designed to allow firefighting equipment to reach and move within a building’s vicinity to commerce firefighting and rescue activities. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. means of egress Refers to a path of travel which allows humans to head outside or enter safe areas, refuge floors, fire emergency holding areas and guarantees safe evacuation of humans in case of fire. 1.4.17 independent means of egress Refers to a means of egress that serves only one section of the building (exit accesses of other sections of the building will not lead to this means of egress). 1.4.18 fire-resistance rating Refers to the period of time (in hours or minutes) from the moment in which structures and structural elements undergo fire resistance test in standard temperature to the moment in which they exhibit any of the limit states. 1.4.19 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Refers to an area which is located on the refuge floor and allows temporary evacuation in case of fire. 1.4.20 technical room Refers to a room where all technical equipment of the building or storey is stored. Technical rooms can occupy a mechanical floor partially or entirely. 1.4.21 room Refers to a space contained within a building that serves a definite purpose and is limited by structures. 1.4.22 regularly occupied room ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1.4.23 single-loaded corridor Refers to a corridor whose one side receives natural ventilation, is not obstructed, runs continuously along its length and whose clear height from the highest point of the side wall to the ceiling is not smaller than 1,2 m. 1.4.24 fire protection system A system that includes: smoke protection system, standpipe system, fire hydrant system, automatic fire suppression system, fire alarm, public address system, emergency lighting system, egress lighting system, fire service elevator, rescue equipment, structural solutions, evacuation solutions, smoke prevention solutions, flame spread prevention solutions. 1.4.25 air supply system for smoke control Refers to a system that is remotely controlled and prevents smoke in case of fire for rooms in control areas, staircases, elevator shafts, fire protection vestibules by supplying fresh air from the outside to create positive pressure in the aforementioned areas, prevents the spread of combustion products and supplies fresh air to make up for the expelled combustion products. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. smoke extraction system Refers to a system that is remotely controlled expels smoke and combustion products outside via smoke inlet. 1.4.27 standpipe system Refers to a combination of specialized equipment including valves, hoses, and nozzles that have been pre-installed to deliver water to the fire. 1.4.28 fire separation distance Refers to the minimum distance between buildings and constructions for the purpose of preventing flame spread. 1.4.29 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Refers to a section of a building which is separated by fire-resistance-rated walls and/or fire-resistance-rated floors or fire-resistance-rated roofs whose fire-resistance rating is sufficient to prevent the fire from spreading beyond the fire compartment throughout the fire duration. 1.4.30 vestibule Refers to a space located between doors which prevents smoke and other gases from entering buildings, staircases, or other rooms. 1.4.31 fire protection vestibule Refers to a vestibule that protects any opening on fire protection assembly, is enclosed by fire-resistance-rated floors and fire-resistance-rated partitions, contains 2 adjacent openings fitted with fire-resistance-rated protectives, or contains more than 2 openings fitted with fire-resistance-rated protectives only when mechanical ventilation is adopted for the vestibule in order to prevent smoke from entering the vestibule in case of fire. 1.4.32 smoke ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1.4.33 exit access (exit, exit access doorway) Refers to a route or a door that leads into a means of egress, directly outside, or into control areas, refuge floors, and/or fire emergency holding areas. 1.4.34 exit passageway Refers to an exit access that leads to a means of egress without crossing building sections (or rooms) of other occupancies. 1.4.35 separate exit access Refers to an exit access that leads from a building section (or room or rooms) into an independent means of egress, or directly outside, or directly into control areas, refuge floors, fire emergency holding areas. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. protective concrete layer and concrete cover Protective concrete layer starts from the edge of the structural elements to the nearest rebar surface. Concrete cover refers to the thickness of the protective concrete layer (from the edge of the structural elements to the nearest rebar surface). 1.4.37 occupied roof Refers to a roof which is regularly occupied by humans (at least 2 consecutive hours or at least 6 hours within a period of 24 hours). 1.4.38 flame Refers to the visible, gaseous part of a fire. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. building Refers to a structure whose primary function is to shelter, protect people or objects therein and which is partially or entirely covered and built on a fixed location. 1.4.40 apartment building Refers to a building with at least 2 storeys, multiple flats, common staircases, private property and common property, common infrastructures and amenities for use by households, individuals, and organizations. Includes apartment buildings built for residential purposes and apartment buildings built for a mix of residential and business purposes (hereinafter referred to as “multipurpose apartment buildings”) 1.4.41 multipurpose building Refers to a building that serves different purposes (for example: a building can be designed to facilitate office, commerce and services, public operations, and even accommodations) NOTE: A multipurpose building must comply with regulations on fire safety applicable to multipurpose buildings if floor area dedicated to each occupancy of the building does not exceed 70% of the total floor area of said building (not including floor area used for technical system, fire prevention and firefighting, fire emergency holding areas, and parking). ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. manufacturing facility Refers to a building where industrial manufacturing activities are conducted and necessary conditions are guaranteed to allow humans to work and operate technology equipment. 1.4.43 fire risk category by function of buildings, constructions, fire compartments, and rooms Refers to a characteristic of buildings, constructions, fire compartments, and rooms which is determined by functions and characteristics of said buildings, constructions, fire compartments, and rooms, including characteristics of production technology employed within said buildings, constructions, fire compartments, and rooms. 1.4.44 fire risk classification of construction materials Refers to a property of construction material determined by combustibility test as per standards. 1.4.45 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Refers to a part within a fire compartment that is separated by fire protection assembly and/or areas sustaining no fire load 1.4.46 fire prevention Refers to a combination of organization and technical solutions which aim to ensure safety for humans, prevent fire, restrict flame spread, and facilitate effective extinguishing of the flame 1.4.47 compartment volume Refers to volume of space in a building or a fire compartment. This volume does not include walls of protected elevators, exit access stairwells and other spaces (e.g. lavatories and storage units) covered by walls with fire resistance ratings less than 60 minutes and walkways passing through walls protected by class 2 fire-resistance-rated doors installed with self-closing devices. Compartment volume shall be calculated based on:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1.4.48 smoke protected lobby Refers to a lobby leading into an exit access stairwells. This lobby must be designed to as to prevent or minimize smoke infiltration into the staircase. 1.4.49 elevator lobby Refers to an empty space leading to the elevator 1.4.50 number of storey Refers to the number of above-ground storeys (including mechanical floor, roof access) and basements/semi-basements but not attics. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1.4.51 fire incident Refers to an uncontrolled combustion that leads to human casualty and/or property damage. 1.4.52 combustion Refers to an exothermic redox chemical reaction which is accompanied by a flame or incandescent light or smoke. 1.4.53 standard documents Include documents such as standards, technical specifications, code of practice, and technical regulations in Vietnam and in other countries promulgated by competent agencies and authorities. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. fire load Refers to the total heat output produced by combustion of combustible materials within a construction 1.4.55 attic Refers to a storey located in the space directly beneath the pitched roof where a part or the entire vertical surface of the storey is created by roof pitches or gables while surrounding walls (if any) are not taller than 1,5 m from the floor. 1.4.56 home landing (of an elevator) Refers to a storey where the main entrance to the building is located (usually the first storey). 1.4.57 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Refers to a storey with more than half of its height located below ground level according to approved planning. NOTE: When reviewing fire safety requirements of a building located on varying ground levels, a storey located below ground level according to approved planning shall not be considered a basement if means of egress from this storey does not travel in an upward direction. 1.4.58 refuge floor Refers to a storey for temporary evacuation which is located in a building with fire height exceeding 100 m. Each refuge floor may house one or multiple fire emergency holding areas. 1.4.59 semi-basement Refers to a storey with half of its height located above or at ground level according to approved planning 1.4.60 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Refers to a storey or a part thereof where technical rooms or technical equipment of the building is located. A mechanical floor can be a basement, a semi-basement, a attic, the topmost storey, or any storey in-between. 1.4.61 above-ground storey Refers to a storey whose floor level is above or at ground level according to approved planning. 1.4.62 fire service elevator Refers to an elevator which is installed primarily for passenger transport but is additionally equipped with protected control, communication systems and marked in order to allow the elevator to be manually controlled by fire brigade to reach various storeys of the building in case of fire. 1.4.63 smoke ventilation ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1.4.64 fire risk of substances and construction materials Refers to a state of substances and materials which is characterized by the ability of the substances and materials to combust or explode. 1.4.65 fire risk of fire barriers Refers to a state of fire barriers and is characterized by the ability to combust and contribute to the fire as well as impact of harmful combustion factors on humans and properties. 1.4.66 fire resistance Refers to the ability to resist the fire and prevent the spread of fire hazards. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. smoke damper Refers to a normally closed fire damper, which is rated for E and installed directly on openings of smoke inlets in corridors and smoke protected lobbies (subsequently referred to as “corridors”) 1.4.68 fire damper Refers to an equipment which is remotely controlled, shields ventilation ducts or openings on enclosing structures of a building, and is rated for EI. There are 3 types of fire dampers: Normally open fire dampers (which close in case of fire); Normally closed fire dampers (which open in case of fire or after a fire); Combined fire dampers (which close in case of a fire and open after a fire); 1.4.69 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Refers to an area in which humans are protected from fire hazards or an area in which fire hazards are either absent or not exceeding the permitted values. 1.4.70 smoke compartment Refers to space within a structure which is limited or surrounded by smoke barriers or structural elements which help prevent the spread of smoke in case of fire. 1.4.71 passive fire protection for structures Refers to the adoption of impregnation or coating, layering of protective layers on top of structures in order to raise fire resistance and/or reduce fire risk of the structures. 1.4.72 fire hazards ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE: Fire hazards include 1) flame and flaming droplets; 2) heat wave; 3) rising ambient temperature; 4) rising toxic substance concentration of combustion products; 5) low oxygen concentration; 6) smoke obscuration. 1.5 General provisions 1.5.1 When designing buildings, structural and premise - spatial arrangement and construction engineering solutions must be implemented in order to ensure the followings in case of fire: - The buildings are able to maintain overall stability and stiffness in a definite period of time as prescribed by fire resistance category of buildings; - All building occupants (regardless of age and health conditions) can evacuate to safe areas outside (hereinafter referred to as “outside”) in a timely manner before the risks to human lives and health are present due to fire hazards; - All rescue operations are feasible; - Fire brigade and firefighting equipment are able to access the fire, implement firefighting activities, rescue humans and properties; - The fire is prevented from spreading onto neighboring buildings, even when the burning buildings collapse; - All direct and indirect physical damage is minimized, including damage to the buildings and properties therein, taking into account economic relationship between the damage and costs for fire prevention and firefighting solutions, equipment. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - All fire prevention and protection solutions must be adopted according to the design in a manner conforming to applicable regulations and standards and approved by the competent authority; - Fire prevention and firefighting requirements of construction in progress and auxiliary constructions, fire prevention and firefighting regulations in construction as per fire prevention and firefighting laws must be adequately implemented; - All firefighting equipment must be equipped and ready for use; - Safe evacuation, rescue operations, and property protection in case of fire during construction process and at construction sites must be guaranteed. 1.5.3 During use: - All building sections and operation of fire protection system must conform to design requirements and technical documents thereof; - Regulations on fire prevention and firefighting as per applicable laws must be implemented; - Structural solutions, premise - spatial arrangement, and engineering solutions must not be altered without approved design as per the law; - Structural elements and materials that do not meet requirements under applicable regulations and standards are not allowed for use in repair operations ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1.5.4 When analyzing fire risk of buildings, calculated scenarios based on correlation between parameters such as contribution to the fire, the spread of fire hazards, human evacuation, and firefighting operations can be utilized. 2 FIRE-RELATED TECHNICAL CLASSIFICATIONS 2.1 Fire risk classification of construction materials 2.1.1 Purpose of classification 2.1.1.1 The classification of construction materials and substances based on fire risks shall be implemented in order to establish fire safety requirements for these materials and substances, and use, preservation, transport, processing, and disposal thereof. 2.1.1.2 In order to establish fire safety requirements for building structures, constructions, and fire protection systems, construction materials shall be classified by fire risks. 2.1.2 Classification criteria Fire risks of construction materials are determined based on fire-related technical specifications: - Combustibility; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Flame spread; - Smoke production; - Toxic potency. 2.1.3 Combustibility classification 2.1.3.1 By combustibility, construction materials are classified into non-combustible materials and combustible materials. 2.1.3.2 Non-combustible materials are those with combustibility criteria (temperature increase, loss of sample mass, duration of sustained flaming) under B.1.1, Appendix B. Non-combustible materials are not subject to regulations on fire risks and not subject to determination of other criteria (see B.1.1, Appendix B) 2.1.3.3 Combustible materials shall be classified into 4 classes: - Ch1 (mildly flammable); ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Ch3 (flammable); - Ch4 (highly flammable). Combustibility and construction materials classified by combustibility are determined under B.1.2, Appendix B 2.1.4 Ignitability classification By ignitability, combustible construction materials are classified into 3 classes: - BC1 (barely ignitable); - BC2 (moderately ignitable); - BC3 (ignitable). Classification of construction material based on ignitability shall be determined under B.1.3 of Appendix B ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. By flame spread, combustible construction materials are classified into 4 classes LT1 (no spread); LT2 (limited spread); LT3 (moderate spread); LT4 (rapid spread). Classification of flame spread applies to flooring and roofing materials, including carpets, according to B.1.4 of Appendix B Other construction materials are not required to be classified by flame spread. 2.1.6 Smoke production classification By smoke production, combustible construction materials are classified into 3 classes: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - SK2 (moderate smoke production); - SK3 (high smoke production). Classification of construction materials by smoke production is determined under B.1.5 of Appendix B. 2.1.7 Toxic potency classification By classification of combustion products, combustible construction materials are classified into 4 classes: - DT1 (low toxic potency); - DT2 (moderate toxic potency); - DT3 (high toxic potency); - DT4 (very high toxic potency). ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2.1.8 Fire risk classification 2.1.8.1 By fire risks, construction materials are classified into CV0, CV1, CV2, CV3, CV4, and CV5 in ascending order fire risk level. NOTE: Fire risk level of construction materials is determined by a combination of criteria under 2.1.2. 2.1.8.2 Fire risk levels of construction materials are specified under B.1.7, Appendix B. 2.2 Structural elements 2.2.1 Purpose of classification 2.2.1.1 Structural elements are classified by fire resistance and fire risks 2.2.1.2 Structural elements are classified by fire resistance in order to determine their use in buildings, constructions, and fire compartments with a definite fire-resistance rating or to determine fire-resistance rating of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments. 2.2.13 Structural elements are classified by fire risks in order to determine their contribution to the fire and formation of fire hazards. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2.2.2.1 Depending on the ability of structural elements of buildings and constructions to resist the fire and the spread of fire hazards in standard testing conditions, their fire resistance shall be classified as follows: - Not required; - No less than 15 minutes; - No less than 30 minutes; - No less than 45 minutes; - No less than 60 minutes; - No less than 90 minutes; - No less than 120 minutes; - No less than 150 minutes; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - No less than 240 minutes. 2.2.2.2 Fire-resistance rating of structural elements shall be determined under standard testing conditions. Fire-resistance rating of load bearing and sheltering structural elements under standard testing conditions or calculated results shall be expressed by the amount of time after which one or several limit states subsequently occur: - Loss of stability (expressed by the letter R); - Loss of integrity (expressed by the letter E); - Loss of insulation (expressed by the letter I) as temperature of the non-burning surface reaches the limit value; Loss of limitation of heat radiation (expressed by the letter W) as heat flux measured from a definite distance from the non-burning surface of the structural elements/structures reaches the limit value; NOTE 1: Fire-resistance rating of structural elements is determined by using combustibility test under TCVN 9311-1 through TCVN 9311-8 or equivalent standards or by using calculations according to approved fire resistance design standards. Fire-resistance ratings of smoke and air ducts shall be determined in accordance with ISO 6944 or equivalent standards. NOTE 2: The required fire-resistance ratings of specific structural elements are specified under this Regulation and Technical regulations of each construction. The required fire-resistance rating of structural elements are expressed by REI, REW, EI, EW, EIW, RE, or R accompanied by the duration of sustaining fire in minutes. For example: If a structural element has required fire-resistance rating of REI 120, the structural element must be able to maintain its stability, integrity, and insulation for 120 minutes while being affected by the fire. If a structural element has required fire-resistance rating of R 60, the structural element must be able to maintain its stability for 60 minutes while being affected by the fire regardless of insulation and integrity. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
2.2.3 Classification of structural elements by fire risks 2.2.3.1 By fire risks, structural elements are classified into 4 levels: K0 (no fire risks); K1 (limited fire risks); K2 (moderate fire risks), K3 (fire risks). ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE 1: Without testing, structural elements are placed under fire risk levels as follows:
NOTE 2: Glass façade of a building is considered a K0 structural element if all its parts (including those connected to the building) are made from non-combustible materials. Sealant network and outer coating that are up to 0,3 mm in thickness (if any) can be ignored for this purpose 2.3 Fire protection assembly 2.3.1 Purpose of classification Fire protection assembly is classified based on methods for preventing the spread of fire hazards and fire resistance in order to select structures and opening protectives of fire protection assembly with appropriate fire-resistance rating and fire risk levels. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2.3.2.1 Fire protection assembly includes fire-resistance-rated walls, fire-resistance-rated partitions, and fire-resistance-rated floors and are classified in accordance with Schedule 1. NOTE: In addition to the aforementioned fire protection assembly, other measures such as fire curtains, water curtains, fire separation distance, and areas without fire load are also employed to prevent flame spread. 2.3.2.2 Opening protectives of fire protection assembly (such as fire-resistance-rated doors, hatches, fire dampers, windows, fire curtains) that are dependent on fire-resistance rating of the separation are classified according to Schedule 2. NOTE: Fire-resistance rating of fire dampers in air distribution systems shall be determined in accordance with ISO 10294 or equivalent standards. Fire-resistance rating of doors, windows, and shutters shall be determined in accordance with TCVN 9383 or equivalent standards. 2.3.2.3 Fire protection vestibules located in openings of fire protection assembly that are dependent on structures of fire protection vestibules shall be classified into type 1 and type 2 fire protection vestibules 2.3.3 Requirements for fire protection assembly 2.3.3.1 Fire protection assembly is employed to prevent fire and combustion products from spreading from a fire compartment or from a room on fire to other rooms. 2.3.3.2 Fire protection assembly is characterized by fire resistance and fire risks. Fire resistance of a fire protection assembly shall be determined by fire resistance of all its constituents, including: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Structural elements that stabilize separating structures (frames, bracing, and similar); - Structural elements that support separating structures (supporting beams, supporting walls, and similar); - Joints thereof. Fire-resistance ratings by loss of stability (R) of structural elements that stabilize separating structures, structural elements that support separating structures, and joints thereof must not be lower than the required fire-resistance ratings of the separating structures. Fire risks of fire protection assembly shall be determined by fire risks of the separating structures together with those of connecting parts and structural elements that stabilize the separating structures. 2.3.3.3 Fire-resistance ratings and types of structural elements working as fire protection assembly, respective opening protectives, and fire protection vestibules are specified under Schedule 1. 2.3.3.4 Type 1 fire protection assembly must have K0 fire risk level. In specific cases, K1 fire risk level is allowed in type 2 through type 4 fire protection assembly. 2.3.3.5 Fire-resistance ratings of protectives of openings of fire protection assembly are specified under Schedule 2. Schedule 1 - Fire-resistance ratings and types of structural elements working as fire protection assembly, respective opening protectives, and fire protection vestibules ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Types of fire protection assembly Fire-resistance ratings of fire protection assembly Types of protectives of openings of fire protection assembly Types of fire protection vestibules 1. Fire-resistance-rated wall 1 REI 150 1 1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. REI 45 2 2 2. Fire-resistance-rated partition 1 EI 45 2 1 2 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3 2 3. Fire-resistance-rated partitions with glass area exceeding 25% of partition area 1 EIW 45 1) 2 1 2 EIW 15 1) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2 4. Fire-resistance-rated floors 1 REI 150 1 1 2 REI 60 2 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3 REI 45 2 1 4 REl 15 3 2 In regard to materials other than glass, adopt EI parameters; in regard to glass sections, adopt EW parameters. Fire-resistance-rated partitions that have been tested and qualified for EI parameters, including the glass section, shall be considered to be qualified for EW parameters. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Types of opening protectives of fire protection assembly Types of opening protectives of fire protection assembly Fire-resistance rating 1. Doors (except for: doors with glass sections exceeding 25% of door area; smoke-proof doors), hatches, fire dampers 1), fire curtains 1 El 60 2 El 30 3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2. Doors with glass sections exceeding 25% of door area 1 EIW 60 2) 2 EIW 30 2) 3 EIW 15 2) 3. Hoistway doors (if required for fire-resistance ratings) 2 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 4. Windows 1 E 60 2 E 30 3 E 15
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE: If the inside of fire protection assembly is fitted with doors, hatches, dampers, windows, blinds or fire protection vestibules where these protectives are located, the doors, fire dampers, and fire protection vestibules must also have fire prevention capacity appropriate to the type of fire protection assembly under Schedule 1. Schedule 3 - Requirements for parts of fire protection vestibules Types of fire protection vestibules Types of parts of fire protection vestibules Partitions Floors Opening protectives 1 1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2 2 2 4 3 2.4 Staircase and stairwell 2.4.1 Purpose of classification Staircases and stairwells are classified in order to determine their requirements pertaining to premise - spatial arrangement and structural solutions and to establish requirements for using them as means of egress for humans 2.4.2 Classification of staircase ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Type 1 - indoor staircase, positioned in a stairwell; Type 2 - indoor staircase, open; Type 3 - outdoor staircase, open. NOTE 1: “Open” means the staircase is not enclosed in a stairwell. NOTE 2: Illustrations pertaining to types of staircases are depicted under Appendix I. 2.4.2.2 Fire escape stairs serving firefighting and rescue purposes shall be classified into 2 types as follows: - P1 - vertical ladder; - P2 - stairs with rise to run ratio not exceeding 6:1 (not exceeding 80o) 2.4.3 Classification of stairwell ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Regular stairwell; - Smokeproof stairwell NOTE: Illustrations pertaining to types of stairwells are depicted under Appendix I. 2.4.3.2 Regular stairwells shall be further classified as follows: - L1 - stairwell that receives natural lighting via openings (either blank or fitted with glass) on the exterior walls of each storey or does not receive natural lighting in case it is intended for exit from semi-basements; - L2 - stairwell that receives natural lighting via openings (either blank or fitted with glass) on the roof. 2.4.3.3 Smokeproof stairwells shall be further classified depending on smoke protection measures as follows: - N1 - stairwell whose entry on each storey travels through a buffer area along open passages (see part 3 for cases of N1 stairwells); NOTE: N1 stairwell can be substituted by a stairwell whose entry on each storey travels through a vestibule. Both vestibules and stairwells must contain positive pressure in case of fire. The supply of air into vestibules and stairwells must be independent of each other. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - N3 - stairwell whose entry on each storey travels through a fire protection vestibule which always has positive pressure (pressure in the fire protection vestibule is greater than that outside of the fire protection vestibule). 2.5 Buildings, constructions, and fire compartments 2.5.1 Purpose of classification The fire-related technical classification for buildings, constructions, and fire compartments serve to establish fire safety requirements for fire prevention and fire protection systems of buildings and constructions depending on their occupancies (purposes) and fire risks. 2.5.2 Classification criteria The fire-related technical classification for buildings, constructions, and fire compartments shall take into account the following criteria: - Fire resistance category; - Fire risk level of structures; - Fire risk categories by function. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2.5.3.1 Buildings, constructions, and fire compartments shall be classified into 5 fire resistance categories of I, II, III, IV, and V. 2.5.3.2 Establish fire resistance category of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments Fire resistance category of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments is established on the basis of number of storey (or fire height), fire risk category by functions, area of fire compartment (see Appendix H) and fire risk of technology procedures that take place in the buildings, constructions, and fire compartments. 2.5.3.3 The required fire-resistance rating of structures must be selected to remain appropriate to fire resistance category of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments. Unless otherwise stated hereunder, the correspondence between fire resistance category of buildings, constructions, fire compartments and fire-resistance ratings of their structures shall conform to Schedule 4. Schedule 4 - Correspondence between fire resistance category of buildings, constructions, fire compartments and fire-resistance ratings of their structural elements Fire resistance category of buildings, constructions, fire compartments Fire-resistance ratings of structural elements, no less than Load bearing walls, load bearing pillars, and other load bearing components Non-load bearing exterior walls ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Roof structures without attics Structural elements of stairwell Roof tiles (including tiles with insulation) Truss, beams, purlins Inner wall Stringer and landings I R 120 E 30 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. RE 30 R 30 REI 120 R 60 II R 90 E 15 REI 45 RE 15 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. REI 90 R 60 II R 45 E 15 REI 45 RE 15 R 15 REI 60 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. IV R 15 E 15 REI 15 RE 15 R 15 REI 45 R 15 V ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE 1: In buildings with fire resistance categories I, II, and III, the floor and ceiling of basements, semi-basements must be made from non-combustible materials and be rated for REI 90 at the minimum. The floor of the first storey and the topmost storey must be made from materials not lower than Ch1 in terms of combustibility. In buildings with fire resistance categories of IV and V, the floor and ceiling of basements, semi-basements must be made from materials not lower than Ch1 in terms of combustibility and be rated for REI 45 at the minimum. NOTE 2: Fire-resistance ratings of roof tiles (including thermal insulation tiles) and purlins thereof (other than buildings, fire compartments, and rooms placed under F3.1 or F3.2 fire risk categories by functions, F5 fire risk category warehouses, manufacturing facilities, and other buildings, rooms, fire compartments of class A, B, or C) are not required if all of the following conditions are met: The underside of the purlins are at least 6,1 m away from the floor directly below them; Roof tiles and purlins are made from either non-combustible materials or mildly flammable materials (Ch1). NOTE 3: In regard to buildings (F1.3 buildings and multipurpose buildings) with 2 or 3 basements, load bearing structures and structural elements in the basements must be rated for at least R 120. NOTE 4: Floor of rooms where combustible liquid is produced or preserved must be made from non-combustible materials. NOTE 5: A part of the non-load bearing exterior wall is not required to be subject to fire protection measures. The area that is not required to be subject to fire protection measures shall be determined in accordance with E.3, Appendix E. NOTE 6: Fire-resistance ratings of non-load bearing exterior wall are not required when all of the following conditions are met: - The entire building is equipped with automatic sprinkler system in accordance with the TCVN 7336; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Non-load bearing exterior wall of the building has K0 fire risk level. Finishing materials of exterior wall (if any) are non-combustible materials or mildly flammable (Ch1) with no spread capacity (LT1) or higher. Load bearing walls, load bearing pillars, frames, solid partitions, floor components between storeys and roof without attics (such as beams, rafters, purlins, floor tiles, roof tiles) shall be considered load bearing components of buildings if they can maintain general structure and spatial stability of buildings in case of fire. Information on the aforementioned load bearing components of the buildings must be specified in the building’s technical dossiers by designing entities. Fire-resistance ratings and fire risk levels are not required for roof structures and structural elements that contain attics in buildings with all fire resistance categories. Fire-resistance ratings of gable structures of attics are not required as long as fire risk level of the gables must be equivalent to that of surrounding walls. Structural elements and structures of roofs which contain attics must be instructed by the designing entities in the building’s technical dossiers. Fire-resistance ratings are not required for opening protectives (doors, windows, hatches), skylights, light-transmitting windows on the roof, and translucent roofing sheets except for protectives of openings on fire protection assembly and otherwise mentioned cases. If the minimum required fire-resistance ratings of structural elements are R 15 (RE 15, REI 15), unprotected steel structures are allowed for use if their fire-resistance rating is at least R 8 according to tests or calculations, or if section factor Am/V is less than or equal to 250 m-1. NOTE: Section factor Am/V shall be determined in accordance with the ISO 834-10 or equivalent standards In N1 smokeproof stairwells, stringers and landings rated for R 15 with fire risk level K0 are allowed for use. Fire compartments shall be separated by type 1 fire-resistance-rated walls and/or type 1 fire-resistance-rated floors. A vertical fire compartment can be divided by a mechanical floor which is separated from adjacent storeys by type 2 fire-resistance-rated floors if vertical continuity of type 1 fire-resistance-rated walls is not disrupted. Fire compartments in buildings with fire resistance categories IV and V can be separated by type 2 fire-resistance-rated walls. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2.5.4.1 Buildings, constructions, and fire compartments shall be classified into 4 fire risk levels of structures of S0, S1, S2, and S3 depending on fire risks of structural elements. 2.5.4.2 Establish fire risk levels of structures of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments Fire risk levels of structures of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments shall be determined by number of storeys, fire risk categories by functions, fire compartment, and fire risks of technology procedures that are adopted in the buildings, constructions, and fire compartments. 2.5.4.3 Correspondence between fire risks levels of structures of buildings and fire risk levels of structural elements Fire risk levels of structural elements must correspond to fire risk levels of structures of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments. The correspondence between fire risk levels of structures of buildings, constructions, fire compartments and the chosen fire risk levels of their structural elements are specified under Schedule 5. 2.5.4.4 Fire risk levels are not required for opening protectives located on enclosing structures of buildings (doors, windows, hatches), skylights, and light-transmitting windows on the roof, except for opening protectives in fire protection assembly. NOTE: If fire-resistance ratings or fire risk levels of structures cannot be determined via standard fire resistance test or calculations when building members or member structures, fire resistance tests must be carried out for parts of the structures in accordance with applied standard documents. Schedule 5 - Correspondence between fire risk levels of structures of buildings, constructions, fire compartments and fire risk levels of structural elements Fire risk levels of structures of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Load bearing elements (pillars, columns, beams, and similar) Exterior walls Walls, partitions, floors separating storeys, and roofs without attics Walls of stairwells; fire protection assembly Stringers and landings in stairwells S0 K0 K0 K0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. K0 S1 K1 K2 K1 K0 K0 S2 K3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. K2 K1 K1 S3 No regulations K1 K3 2.5.5 Fire risk categories by functions of buildings, constructions, fire compartments, and rooms 2.5.5.1 Buildings and parts thereof (fire compartments, rooms or series of rooms with related occupancies) shall be divided into fire risk categories by functions depending on their use, level of threat to occupant’s safety in case of fire while taking into account age, physical conditions, the possibility of sleeping occupants, people using the primary occupancies of the buildings and number thereof. Fire risk categories by functions are specified under Schedule 6. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2.5.5.3 If a building which is placed under a specific fire risk category by functions is allowed to contain rooms or series of rooms which are placed under other fire risk categories by functions, additional conditions according to design standards of specific building forms and technical equipment must be strictly complied with in addition to this Regulation. Schedule 6 - Building classification1) based on fire risk category by functions Category Purpose Use properties F1 Buildings for permanent or temporary accommodation (including 24-hour stay) Rooms in these buildings are used regardless of time of day. Occupants may vary in age and physical conditions. These buildings are characterized by the presence of sleeping units. F1.1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. F1.2 Hotels, hostels, models, rented houses; dorms, tenements, sleeping units of nursing, recovery, intensive care, orthopaedic facilities, and other accommodation facilities with similar occupancies. F1.3 Apartment buildings and buildings with similar occupancies F1.4 Detached houses, and buildings with similar occupancies. F2 Buildings of sports and cultural establishments Primary rooms of these buildings are characterized by the large number of occupants in a definite amount of time. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Theaters, cinemas, circuses, concert halls; clubs, nightclubs, discotheques, bars, singing rooms, karaoke venues, and other similar establishments in enclosed spaces, sports constructions with bleachers, stadiums, indoor stadiums; libraries; convention centers, event centers not including food and drink services, and other buildings with similar occupancies and calculated number of seats for occupants in enclosed spaces. F2.2 Museums, exhibits; dance studios; building blocks of recreational structures, aquariums, and buildings with similar occupancies. F2.3 Buildings of establishments mentioned under F2.1 but in the outdoors, recreational parks; and buildings with similar occupancies. F2.4 Buildings of establishments mentioned under F2.2 but in the outdoors. F3 Buildings of commercial, trade, and residential service establishments ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. F3.1 Buildings of good retailers, goods exhibits, fairs, shopping malls, electronic shopping malls, supermarkets, department stores, convenient stores; bookstores; motorcycle, motor vehicle retailers; and buildings with similar occupancies. F3.2 Restaurants, food and drink establishments, rest stops; convention centers and event centers that include food and drink services; and buildings with similar occupancies. F3.3 Railway stations, airports, cable car terminals, ferry terminals, coach stations; and buildings with similar occupancies. F3.4 (out-patient) medical examination and treatment establishments for general medicine, specialized medicine, and intensive care; out-patient wards of other medical establishments such as medical stations, orthopaedic establishments, beauty centers, intensive care centers; buildings of massage services; and buildings with similar occupancies F3.5 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. F3.6 Sports compounds and training grounds, competition grounds without bleachers; service rooms; stadiums, race tracks, shooting ranges; and buildings with similar occupancies. F4 Education and training establishments, head offices, science, research, and design organizations, presiding authorities Rooms in these buildings are occupied in certain time of day by a definite group of people who are accustomed to the location and have determined age and physical conditions. F4.1 Primary schools, lower secondary schools, multi-level schools (not including preschools and kindergartens), upper secondary schools, professional secondary schools, vocational education and training establishments, training schools for teenagers operating in religion sector, and buildings with similar occupancies. F4.2 Universities, colleges, academies, intermediate professional education, professional training schools, engineering education establishments; training schools for people operating in religion sector other those under F4.1; and buildings with similar occupancies. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Head offices of presiding authorities and state authorities of all levels, work places of office employees of enterprises; head offices of political organizations, socio-political organizations; head offices of socio-occupational organizations, public service providers, enterprises, and other organizations, individuals; head offices of religions; designing organizations, scientific research organizations, seismic research stations, meteorology and hydrology stations, space research facilities; communication organizations and publishing houses; radio broadcasting organizations, television broadcasting organizations, telecommunication organizations, communication device installation service providers, banks, agencies, offices; and buildings with similar occupancies. F4.4 Fire and rescue stations. F5 Buildings, constructions, and rooms for manufacturing, production, and storage Rooms in these buildings are characterized by constant presence of employees, including those working regardless of time of day. F5.1 Manufacturing facilities, manufacturing and experimenting rooms, factories, repair and maintenance shops for motor vehicles, motorcycles; and buildings with similar occupancies. F5.2 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. F5.3 Buildings serving agriculture and rural development purposes.
2.5.6 Classification of buildings, constructions, and rooms with manufacturing and storage occupancies by fire and explosion risks 2.5.6.1 Purpose of classification The classification of buildings, constructions, and rooms with manufacturing and storage occupancies is implemented in order to establish fire safety requirements, prevent the risk of fire, and ensure fire protection for humans and properties in case of fire in the buildings, constructions, and rooms. 2.5.6.2 Classification of rooms 2.5.6.2.1 By fire and explosion risks, rooms with manufacturing and storage occupancies shall be classified as follows: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Fire and explosion risk (B); - Fire risk (C1, C2, C3, and C4) - Moderate fire risk (D); - Low fire risk (E). Rooms with manufacturing and storage occupancies shall be elaborated under Appendix C. 2.5.6.2.2 Buildings, constructions, and rooms with other occupancies shall not be classified by fire and explosion risks. 2.5.6.2.3 Fire and explosion risk classes of rooms shall be determined on the basis of combustible substances and materials present in the rooms, quantity and fire risk thereof, premise - spatial solutions of the rooms, and characteristics of technology procedures that take place in the rooms. 2.5.6.2.4 The classification of rooms by fire and explosion risks shall be carried out by inspecting rooms for indicators of the classes from (A) to (E) under Schedule C.1 of Appendix C. 2.5.6.3 Classification of buildings and constructions ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2.5.6.3.2 Fire and explosion risk classes of buildings and constructions shall be determined on the basis of percentage and total area of rooms of certain fire and explosion risk classes in the buildings and constructions. 2.5.6.3.3 The classification of buildings and constructions is specified under Appendix C. 3 HUMAN SAFETY ASSURANCE 3.1 General provisions 3.1.1 The requirements in this section aim to ensure: - Timely and unobstructed evacuation of humans; - Rescue of people affected by fire hazards; - Protection for people escaping via means of egress from fire hazards. 3.1.2 Evacuation means the organized and voluntary movement of people from rooms and areas where they are vulnerable to fire hazards to the outside. Evacuation can also mean involuntary movement of people with mobility impairment and is usually done by their caregivers. Evacuation is done along means of egress via exit accesses. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3.1.4 Human protection along means of egress must be ensured by a combination of premise - spatial solutions, convenience, structural, and organization solutions. All means of egress accessible from a room must ensure safe evacuation through exit accesses from that room without taking into account smoke protection and fire extinguishing equipment present in this room. Protection for means of egress beyond the room must be calculated in order to ensure safety for humans and must take into account fire risk categories by functions of other rooms located on the exit accesses, number of evacuating people, fire resistance categories and fire risk levels of structures of buildings, number of exit accesses on a storey and in the entire building. Fire risks of construction materials on the surface of the structures (finishing layers and tiles) in rooms and along means of egress must be limited depending on fire risk categories by functions of the buildings and rooms and other protective measures for exit accesses. 3.1.5 When designing exit accesses from rooms and buildings, all rescue measures and equipment and exits that are not qualified for exit access requirements under 3.2.1 must not be taken into account. 3.1.6 F5 rooms of class A or class B must not be positioned below rooms with occupant load of more than 50 people and must not be positioned in basements or semi-basements. F1.1, F1.2, and F1.3 must not be positioned in basements or semi-basements. 3.1.7 In regard to buildings with 2 to 3 basements, smoking rooms, supermarkets, shopping malls, food and beverage vendors, and other public spaces can be positioned lower than the first basement only when additional fire safety measures according to applied standard documents are adopted and approved by competent authorities in accordance with 1.1.10. In regard to hospitals and high schools, rooms serving primary occupancies must be positioned in the semi-basement or the first basement (if there is no semi-basement) or higher. The first basement means the highest basement or the basement that is adjacent to the semi-basement. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3.1.8 In order to ensure safe evacuation, early fire detection and alarm are required. 3.1.9 In order to protect people evacuating, smoke protection must be implemented to prevent smoke from infiltrating means of egress of buildings and building sections. Basic requirements for smoke protection systems of buildings are specified under Appendix D. 3.1.10 All equipment of fire protection system in buildings must be prioritized for electricity supply from 2 independent sources (a grid-connected source and a backup generator). NOTE: Electrical appliances that have separate backup power sources (such as diesel backup pumps, safety cabinets with backup batteries) only requires the grid-connected source as long as the backup power source can function normally in case of fire. 3.1.11 The effectiveness of human safety assurance measures in case of fire can be evaluated via calculation. 3.2 Exit accesses and fire exits 3.2.1 Exits are considered exit accesses if:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Via corridors; or - Via lobbies (or waiting areas); or - Via staircases; or - Via corridors and lobbies (or waiting areas); or - Via corridors and staircases.
- Stairwell or type 3 staircases directly; or - Corridors that lead directly to stairwells or type 3 staircases; or - Common rooms (or waiting areas) with exits that lead directly to stairwells or type 3 staircases; or ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Occupied roof or separate section of the roof which leads to type 3 staircases.
NOTE: If type 3 staircases are used for exit access, calculations pertaining to evacuation must be done accordance with Appendix G. 3.2.2 Exits from basements and semi-basements are considered exit accesses if they lead directly outside and are separated from common stairwells of the buildings (see Figure I.1 of Appendix I). The following exits are also considered exit accesses:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Rooms on the first storey and storeys above must have means of egress that do not travel through these lobbies (except for rooms in the lobbies); - Finishing materials of waiting areas, locker rooms, smoking rooms, and toilets in basements or semi-basements must fulfill requirements applicable to common rooms according to Appendix B; Locker rooms must have enough exit accesses according to this Regulation excluding the exit accesses along type 2 staircases mentioned above.
Vestibules can be positioned on exit discharges from buildings, basements, and semi-basements. 3.2.3 Exits are not considered exit accesses if sliding doors, folding doors, roller shutters, or revolving doors are installed along the way. Hinged outswinging leaves fitted in the aforementioned doors can be considered exit accesses if their design meets regulations. 3.2.4 Quantity and width of exit accesses from rooms, storeys, and buildings shall be determined by the largest number of people possibly evacuating through them and the maximum permissible distance from the furthest occupied areas (for domestic or work purposes) to the nearest exit accesses. NOTE 1: The largest number of people evacuating from different spaces of buildings or building sections shall conform to G.3 of Appendix G ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Building sections with different occupancies and separated by fire protection assembly must have separate exit accesses, except specific cases specified in this document. Building sections with different occupancies and separated into fire compartments by fire protection assembly must have separate exit accesses from each storey. Up to 50% of total number of exit accesses can lead to adjacent fire compartments (except for exit accesses that lead to F5 fire compartments). F5 building sections must have separate exit accesses. 3.2.5 The following rooms must have at least 2 exit accesses:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. If the rooms are required to have at least 2 exit accesses, 50% of the number of exit accesses can lead to an adjacent room as long as the adjacent room must also contain exit accesses compliant to this Regulation and standard documents applicable to that room. 3.2.6 Number of exit accesses of storeys 3.2.6.1 The following storeys must have at least 2 exit accesses:
3.2.6.2 A single exit access is allowed in the following cases (except for buildings with fire resistance category V): ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - In regard to buildings with fire height not exceeding 15 m, area of the storey in question must not exceed 300 m2. In regard to buildings with fire height from exceeding 15 m to 21 m, area of the storey in question must not exceed 200 m2. - The entire buildings are protected by automatic sprinkler system; - Each storey with occupant load not exceeding 20 people; - In regard to buildings with more than 3 storey or with fire height exceeding 9 m: equipped with type 2 fire-resistance-rated doors on exit accesses of each storey that lead into exit access stairwells. - In regard to buildings with 3 storeys or less or with fire height not exceeding 9 m: type 2 stairwells can substitute the aforementioned stairwells as long as building occupants can exit via open balconies or open rooftop in case of fire (except for mansions, villas, accommodations which are prescribed as below). NOTE: Open balcony or open rooftop means the balcony or rooftop is not enclosed and sheltering apparatus (if any) must facilitate evacuation and rescue for the fire brigade. In regard to mansions, villas, and accommodations not taller than 3 storeys and of category F1.2, stairwells mentioned above can be substituted by type 2 stairwells when all conditions below are met: - Each storey must not be larger than 200 m2, fire height must not exceed 9 m, and total number of occupants must not exceed 15 people; - Buildings have at least one exit access that leads directly outside or into type 3 staircases; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
- When elevation of the topmost storey does not exceed 28 m - exit accesses from that storey can lead into common stairwells as long as addressable fire alarm is equipped; - When elevation of the topmost storey exceeds 28 m - exit accesses from that storey can lead to N1 smokeproof stairwells as long as all rooms in flats (other than lavatories, bathrooms, and auxiliary sections) must be equipped with addressable fire alarm or automatic fire extinguishing system. In regard to F1.3 buildings with fire height ranging from exceed 28 m to 50 m and total flat area on each storey reaches 500 m2, N1 stairwells can be substituted with type 2 stairwells, when the conditions below are met: 1) Entrances from all storeys that lead into stairwells, including openings between stairwells and lobbies must be fitted with fire protection vestibules which is maintained at positive pressure in case of fire; 2) at least one elevator of the building is reserved for use by the fire brigade; 3) All rooms in the flats (other than lavatories, bathrooms, auxiliary sections) must be equipped with addressable fire alarm or automatic fire extinguishing system; 4)The buildings are equipped with fire siren (can be installed in common corridors). NOTE: Flat area includes balcony and/or loggia area.
- The buildings' fire height does not exceed 9 m and area of the storeys in question does not exceed 300 m2; - The storeys in question have single-loaded corridors that lead into type 2 open staircases or stairwells and are led to from F4.1 rooms. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Number of exit accesses from a building must not be lower than the number of exit accesses of any storey in the same building. 3.2.8 If at least 2 exit accesses are required, they must be distributed away from one another and the calculation of evacuation potential of these exit accesses must assume that the fire has denied access to one of the other exit accesses. The remaining exit accesses must be able to ensure safe evacuation for all occupants in the rooms, on the storeys, or in the buildings (see Figure I.3). When a room, a building section, or a storey requires at least 2 exit accesses, at least 2 of these exits must be distributed away from one another. The distance between any 2 exit accesses must be equal to or greater than half of the greatest diagonal of the room, building section, or storey. This distance shall be measured by a straight line connecting their closest sides (see Figures I.4 a), b), and c)). If the entire building is protected by automatic sprinkler system, this distance can be reduced down to 1/3 of the greatest diagonal of the rooms above (see Figure I.4 d)). If 2 exit stairwells are connected via a corridor, the distance between 2 exit accesses (doors leading to the exit stairwell) shall be measured along the corridor (see Figure I.5). This corridor must be protected in accordance with 3.3.5. 3.2.9 Clearance height of exit access must not be lower than 1,9 m while clear width must not be lower than: - 1,2 m - from F1.1 rooms if the number of evacuation people exceeds 15, rooms and buildings of other fire risk categories by occupancies if the number of evacuating people exceeds 50, other than F1.3 category; - 0,8 m - in all other cases. Width of doors leading outside from stairwells and doors leading into lobbies from stairwells must not be lower than calculated value or stringer width specified under 3.4.1. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. If double doors are used on exit accesses, width of exit accesses shall equal width of the open leaf and shall not include width of the closed leaf or fixed leaf. Double doors must be fitted with self-closing devices so that each leaf closes in sequence. In buildings with fire height more than 28 m (other than F1.3 and F1.4 buildings), exit access doorways from common corridors of each storey, common lobbies, waiting areas, foyers, stairwells (other than exit access doorways leading directly outside) must be fire-resistance-rated doors with fire-resistance ratings of EI 30 or higher. 3.2.10 Doors of exit accesses and other doors on means of egress must be outswinging doors. The direction in which the doors swing is not required in case of: - F1.3 and F1.4 rooms; - Rooms with occupant load not exceeding 15 people, other than rooms of class A or class B; - Warehouse no larger than 200 m2 and not regularly occupied by employees; - Restrooms; - Entrances leading to landings of type 3 staircases. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Doors of exit accesses from areas (either rooms or corridors) that are protected by mechanical smoke protection system must be solid doors fitted with self-closing devices and their clearance must be tightly sealed. If these doors need to be left open during use, they must be fitted with self-closing devices that close the doors automatically in case of fire. Doors on stairwells must be fitted with self-closing devices and have their clearance tightly sealed. Doors of stairwells that open directly outside are not required to be fitted with self-closing devices or have their clearance tightly sealed. Except for specific cases, doors of stairwells in buildings with fire resistance category I or II must be type 1 fire-resistance-rated doors; doors of stairwells in buildings with fire resistance category III or IV must be type 2 fire-resistance-rated doors; doors of stairwells in buildings with fire resistance category V must be type 3 fire-resistance-rated doors. Other than specific regulations, doors of exit accesses leading from corridors to stairwells used by at least 4 storeys (except for buildings for incarceration or correctional purposes) must ensure the followings:
- There are at least 2 storeys where occupants can exit the stairwells to reach other exit accesses (i.e. reentry must be allowed on at least 2 storeys); - There are no more than 4 storeys between storeys where occupants can exit the stairwells to reach other exit accesses; - Reentry must be allowed on the topmost storey or the storey immediately below the topmost storey which is served by exit access stairwells if this storey allows access to another exit access; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Doors that do not allow reentry must be marked on the stair side by signage which directs occupants to the nearest points of reentry or the nearest exit accesses in both directions. NOTE: Doors that do not allow reentry must be marked on the corridor side (the other side of the stair side) by signage that warns occupants that they cannot return through those doors. 3.2.12 Exits that do not qualify as exit accesses can be considered fire exits in order to increase safety for humans in case of fire. All fire exits, including those under 3.2.13, must not be included when calculating fire evacuation. 3.2.13 In addition to cases mentioned under 3.2.12, fire exits also include:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. In regard to mechanical floors where technical networks are installed (ductworks, pipelines, and similar structures), fire exits can be facilitated via doors whose minimum dimension is 0,75 m x 1,5 m or via hatches whose minimum dimension is 0,6 m x 0,8 m and exit accesses are not required. In regard to mechanical floors located in basements, these exits must be separate from other exits of the buildings and must lead outside. 3.3 Means of egress 3.3.1 All means of egress must receive illumination and direction in accordance with TCVN 3890. 3.3.2 Maximum permissible distance from the furthest point of the room or from the furthest work station to the nearest exit accesses which is measured along means of egress must be limited depending on: - Fire risk categories by functions and fire and explosion risk classes (see Appendix C) of rooms and buildings; - Number of people evacuating; - Geometry parameters of rooms and means of egress; - Fire risk levels of structures and fire resistance categories of buildings. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE: Specific requirements pertaining to maximum permissible distance from the furthest point to the nearest exit accesses are prescribed under regulations applicable to each type of construction. Some specific regulations applicable to common building types are prescribed under Appendix G. 3.3.3 When designing and arranging means of egress, requirements under 3.2.1 must be taken into account. Exit accesses must not include elevators, escalators, and the followings: - Passages that travel through inner corridors from elevator shafts, through elevator lobbies and elevator vestibules if enclosing structures of elevator shafts, including hoistway doors, fail to meet requirements of fire protection assembly; - Passages that travel through landings of stairwells as well as passages that travel through rooms where type 2 stairwells are located and not used for evacuation purposes; - Passages that travel along the roof, except for occupied roofs or roof sections designed specifically for evacuation purposes; - Passages that travel along type 2 staircases which serve at least 3 storeys and lead from basements or semi-basements, except for specific cases pertaining to evacuation along type 2 staircases stated under 3.2.1, 3.2.2, and 3.2.6. 3.3.4 Finishing materials, decorations of floors and ceilings (including suspended ceilings if any), tiles and covering materials of floors on means of egress must comply with requirements under Schedule B.8 of Appendix B. 3.3.5 Corridors on exit accesses mentioned under 3.2.1, in addition to cases specifically mentioned in the Regulation, must not contain: equipment projecting from the wall at a height below 2 m; pipelines carrying combustible gas and combustible liquid and wall-mounted cabinets, except for communication cabinets and standpipe cabinets. Corridors, lobbies, and common rooms along means of egress must be enclosed by appropriate fire protection assembly according to regulations applicable to each type of construction. Fire protection assembly enclosing means of egress of buildings with fire resistance category I must be made of non-combustible materials with minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 30 or in case of buildings with fire resistance categories II, III, and IV, non-combustible or mildly flammable (Ch1) materials with minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 15. In regard to buildings with fire resistance category II and fire and explosion risk levels of D and E (see Appendix C), corridors can be enclosed by glass walls. Doors that open into corridors must be fire-resistance-rated doors with fire-resistance rating not lower than fire-resistance rating of fire protection assembly. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. When door leaves open into corridors, width of means of egress shall equal clean width of the corridors minus: - Half the width of the widest open door leaves - when the doors are situated on one side of the corridors; The entire width of the widest open door leaves - when the doors are situated on both sides of the corridors. This requirement does not apply to corridors (common lobbies) between flat doors and doors leading to stairwells in F1.3 single-stair buildings. 3.3.6 Clearance height of horizontal segments of means of egress must not be less than 2 m, clear width of horizontal segments of means of egress and ramp segments must not be less than: - 1,2 m - for common corridors for evacuation of more than 15 people from F1 rooms or more than 50 people from rooms of other fire risk categories by functions. - 0,7 m - for passages to individual work station. - 1,0 m - in all other cases. In all circumstances, means of egress must be wide enough and designed appropriately so that it does not obstruct transport of occupied stretchers. 3.3.7 Changes of less than 45 cm in height or curbs are not allowed on means of egress, except for door thresholds. Sections with changes to height must be fitted with at least 3 steps of stair or made as slopes with maximum rise to run ratio of 1:6 (a maximum rise of 10 cm over a run of 60 cm or the degree created by the slope and the horizontal surface not greater than 9,5o). ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Except for cases mentioned under 3.4.4, spiral staircases and curved staircases are not allowed on means of egress; steps with varying rise height and tread depth are not allowed in the same stringer and stairwell. Mirrors are not allowed on means of egress. 3.4 Staircases and stairways on means of egress 3.4.1 Width of stringers for human evacuation, including stringers in stairwells, must not be lower than calculated width or width of any exit access doorways in the stairwells and must not be lower than: - 1,35 m - for F1.1 buildings; - 1,2 m - for buildings with occupant load on any storey other than the first storey exceeding 200 people; - 0,7 m - for staircases leading to individual work stations; - 0,9 m - for other cases. 3.4.2 Pitch (slope angle) of staircases on means of egress must not be greater than 1:1 (45o); tread depth must not be less than 25 cm except for outdoor stairs, rise height must not be greater than 22 cm and lower than 5 cm. Pitch (slope angle) of open staircases that lead to individual work stations can be increased to 2:1 (63,5°). ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Type 3 staircases must be made from non-combustible materials (except for buildings with fire resistance category V) and must be positioned next to solid sections (without windows or light-transmitting openings) of walls with minimum fire risk level K1 and minimum fire-resistance rating of REI 30 or EI 30 (fire-resistance rating of these solid wall sections is not required in case of buildings with fire resistance category V). These staircases must have landings located on the same elevation as exit accesses, guardrails at a height of 1,2 m and no more than 1,0 m away from windows. Solid sections of the walls can be replaced by glass walls with minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 30. Fire-resistance rating is not required for doorways leading from corridors into landings of type 3 staircases and from rooms which these type 3 staircases serve exclusively. Type 2 staircases must fulfill requirements applicable to stringers and landings of stairwells. 3.4.3 Width of landings must not be lower than width of stringers. Width of landings leading to elevators (the landings act as elevator lobbies) in regard to hinged outswinging elevator doors must not be less than the total width of stringers and half the width of elevator door leaves and not lower than 1,6 m. Intermediate landings of a straight stringers must have minimum length of 1,0 m. Calculated width of landings and stringers must not be reduced by door leaves that open into the staircases. 3.4.4 Buildings placed in F4 fire risk category by function are allowed to place curved staircases on means of egress when all conditions below are met: - Vertical rise of stairs does not exceed 9,0 m; - Flight width conforms to regulations in this document; - The smallest radius is not less than twice the flight width; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - The smallest depth of winder treads (measured at 270 mm away from the smaller end of the winder treads) is not lower than 220 mm; - Tread depth measured at the middle section is not lower than 250 mm; - The greatest depth of winder treads (measured at 270 mm away from the larger end of the winder treads) is not greater than 250 mm; - The sum of twice the riser height and the smallest depth of winder treads must not be lower than 480 mm; the sum of twice the riser height and the greatest depth of winder treads must not be greater than 800 mm. 3.4.5 Stairwells and vestibules (if any) must not contain: - Pipes carrying combustible gas or combustible liquid; - Wall-mounted cabinets, other than communication cabinets and standpipe cabinets; - Exposed cables and wires (other than electrical wires for low voltage equipment and electrical wires for lighting of corridors and stairwells); - Exits from freight lifts and lifting appliances; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Equipment protruding from wall surface below 2,2 m in height from the surface of the steps and landings. Spaces of exit access stairwells and fire protection vestibules which receive positive pressure in case of fire must not contain any occupancy. 3.4.6 In stairwells other than smokeproof stairwells, no more than 2 passenger elevators are allowed if these elevators do not descend past the first storey and enclosing structures of elevator shafts are made from non-combustible materials. If outdoor elevator shafts require enclosing structures, these enclosing structures must be made from non-combustible materials. 3.4.7 All stairwells, unless otherwise specified in this Regulation, must contain exit discharges that lead to adjacent plots or through entrance hall which is separated from adjoining corridors and rooms by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions with doors which are fitted with self-closing devices and tightly sealed clearance. If exit accesses from at least 2 stairwells travel through a entrance hall, all stairwells other than one must contain exit discharges other than doors to entrance halls. If only one stairwell leads into a entrance hall, this stairwell must contain an exit discharge. Exit accesses from 2 stairwells can travel through entrance halls in buildings that have less than 28 m of fire height, no more than 300 m2 of storey area, occupant load of each storey compliant with approved design, and automatic fire extinguishing system compliant with applicable regulations. The case where approved design does not specify the occupant load of each storey, the occupant load can be calculated by dividing floor area of a room, storey, or building by floor space factor (m2/person) under Schedule G.9 and must not exceed 50 people. In regard to passenger terminals and large lobbies with similar occupancies, if exits from stairwells (or corridors) lead into common passenger lounges which contain exit discharges, exits to open overpass, or to terminal platforms, exits from 50% of those stairwells (or corridors) can be considered exit accesses. N1 stairwells must contain exit discharges. ... ... ... 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Other than L2 stairwells, lighting can be provided via light-transmitting openings no smaller than 1,2 m2 on exterior wall of each storey. L2 staircases must contain skylights no smaller than 4 m2 and clearance between 2 flights of stairs no smaller than 0,7 m or light-transmitting openings throughout the height of the stairwells with cross section no smaller than 2 m2. Up to 50 % of stairwells without light-transmitting openings can be used for evacuation in the following cases: - F2, F3, and F4 buildings: N2 or N3 stairwells which contain positive pressure in case of fire; - F5 buildings of class C with up to 28 m in fire height, or class D and class E regardless of fire height: N3 stairwells which contain positive pressure in case of fire.
If light-transmitting openings cannot be installed in accordance with section a) of 3.4.8, exit access stairwells must be smokeproof stairwells, fitted with artificial lighting equipment which is powered in accordance with note section of 3.4.13 following the principle where power source for lighting equipment must be maintained in case of fire and light provided must be sufficient to facilitate evacuation without impairing visibility. 3.4.9 Smoke protection for N2 and N3 stairwells must conform to Appendix D. If necessary, N2 stairwells must be divided into subcompartments longitudinally by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions and passages between subcompartments must be located outside of the stairwells. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Vestibules of N3 stairwells must not be smaller than 3,0 m2 or not be smaller than 6,0 m2 if the vestibules simultaneously act as fire service elevator lobbies. 3.4.10 Smokeproof capability of smokeproof vestibules which lead into N1 smokeproof vestibules must receive natural ventilation together with appropriate structural solutions and premise - spatial arrangement. Cases deemed appropriate are: NOTE: Arrangements of smokeproof vestibules leading into N1 stairwells are depicted under I.3.2 (Appendix I).
- When a part of exterior walls adjoins another wall creating an angle lower than 135o, the horizontal clearance from the nearest doorways to the vertex of the angle must not be less than 4 m; this distance can be lowered to match the protrusion length of exterior wall. This requirement does not apply to walkways or where the created angle exceeds or equals 135o, or the protrusion of exterior wall that does not exceed 1,2 m; Width of wall segment between doorways of smokeproof vestibules and the nearest windows must not be lower than 2 m; Walkways must not be narrower than 1,2 m; guardrails must be located at a height of 1,2 m; width of wall segments between doorways in smokeproof vestibules must not be lower than 1,2 m. NOTE: Similar cases are depicted under Appendix I, Figures I.8 a), b), and c)
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - A public way or street or other public space unobstructed to the sky; - A vertical ventilation shafts whose width is not lower than 6 m and clearance area is not lower than 93 m2;
- Air vents no smaller than 15% of floor area of smoke protected lobbies and no more than 9 m away from any section of the lobbies. These air vents must be connected to a vertical shaft or a vertical clearance along the building’s height. The vertical shaft or vertical clearance must have minimum width of 6 m and minimum clear area of 93 m2. Walls of the shaft must be able to resist fire for at least 1 hour; the shaft must contain no openings other than the air vents of smoke protected lobbies, exit stairwells, and lavatories (see Figures I.8 d), e), and f)); - Cross ventilation where fixed air vents are located on 2 exterior walls. Air vents on each exterior wall must not be smaller than 50% of clear area of the opposing exterior wall. Distance from any point of the corridor to an air vent must not be greater than 13 m (see Figure I.8 g)). 3.4.11 L1 stairwells and type 3 staircases are allowed in buildings with all fire risk categories by functions with up to 28 m in fire height. If this is the case in F5 buildings of class A or class B, exits to corridors from class A or class B rooms must travel through vestibules containing positive pressure at all time. 3.4.12 L2 stairwells are allowed in buildings with I, II, and III fire resistance category with S0 and S1 fire risk level of structures, F1, F2, F3, F4 fire risk category by functions, and up to 9 m in fire height. This fire height can be increased to 12 m (except for in-patient medical facilities) as long as light-transmitting openings open automatically in case of fire. The number of L2 stairwells must not exceed 50% of total number of stairwells (other than F1.3 and F1.4 buildings). The remaining stairwells must contain light-transmitting openings on exterior wall of each storey. When building L2 stairwells, each flat of a F1.3 point access building located at a height above 4 m must be provided with a fire exit in accordance with 3.2.13. 3.4.13 In buildings with more than 28 m of fire height (other than F5 buildings of class C and class E that are not regularly occupied) and F5 buildings of class A or class B, N1 smokeproof stairwells are required. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE: N1 stairwells can be substituted in accordance with 2.5.1c) as long as the system that supplies vestibules and stairwells with outside air must be powered by 2 independent sources (a grid-connected source and a backup generator) in order to maintain stable operation of the system in case of fire. Allow:
- In regard to class A or class B buildings - N2 or N3 stairwells which are maintained at positive pressure at all time; - In regard to class C buildings - N2 or N3 stairwells which are maintained at positive pressure in case of fire; - In regard to class D or class E buildings - N2 or N3 stairwells which are maintained at positive pressure in case of fire or L1 stairwells if the stairwells are divided into subcompartments by solid fire-resistance-rated partitions every 20 m in height and passages from one subcompartment to another subcompartment must be located outside of the stairwells. 3.4.14 In buildings where smokeproof stairwells are located, smoke protection must be implemented for all common corridors, lobbies, common spaces, and waiting areas. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. In F3.1 and F3.2 buildings, the aforementioned stairs are also allowed in regardless of the existence of entrance halls. 3.4.16 In buildings with up to 28 m in fire height, F1.2, F2, F3, F4 fire risk categories by functions, I and II fire resistance categories and S0 fire risk level of structures, type 2 stairwells are allowed to connect at least 2 storeys if exit access stairwells meet requirements under standard documents and those under 4.27. Type 2 stairwells connecting at least 3 storeys are not allowed to be calculated, considered, or used as means of egress in case of fire, except for cases under 3.2.1, 3.2.2, and 3.2.6. 3.4.17 Escalators must be positioned in accordance with requirements applicable to type 2 staircases. 3.5 Fire safety requirements for construction materials 3.5.1 Construction materials shall be utilized depending on occupancies and fire risk levels thereof. 3.5.2 Fire safety requirements pertaining to the application of construction materials in buildings shall correspond to fire risk levels of construction materials under Schedule B.7 (Appendix B). 3.5.3 The use of finishes - decorations, tiles, and flooring materials on means of egress must conform to requirements under 3.3.4 whereas the use thereof in common rooms (other than flooring materials in sports competition surfaces and floors of dancing rooms) shall conform to Schedule B.9 (Appendix B). 3.5.4 Rooms of F5 buildings with class A or class B or class C1 where combustible liquid is used or preserved must have flooring materials with maximum fire risk level of CV1. 3.5.5 Locker rooms of F2.1 buildings are not allowed to use wall, ceiling, dropped ceiling finishes or tiles with fire risk levels lower than CV1, or flooring materials with fire risk levels lower than CV2. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3.5.7 In exhibition occupancies of museums, galleries, and F2.2 rooms with similar nature, wall, ceiling, and dropped ceiling finishes with fire risk level higher than CV2 are not allowed; flooring materials with fire risk level higher than CV3 are not allowed. 3.5.8 In mercantile occupancies of F3.1 buildings, wall, ceiling, and dropped ceiling finishes with fire risk level higher than CV2 are not allowed; flooring materials with fire risk level higher than CV3 are not allowed. 3.5.9 In waiting areas of F3.3 buildings, wall, ceiling, dropped ceiling finishes, and flooring materials are required to have fire risk level of CV0. 3.5.10 Fire safety requirements for finishes - decorations, tiles, flooring materials, and testing criteria corresponding to standard documents are allowed as substitution for requirements under 3.5.1 through 3.5.9 and Appendix B, other than requirements under A.4. 4 FLAME SPREAD PREVENTION 4.1 Flame spread prevention shall be implemented by limiting burning area, fire intensity, and fire duration. To be specific: - Using structural solutions and premise - spatial arrangement to prevent the spread of fire hazards in a room, between rooms, between rooms with different fire risk categories by functions, between storeys, between single-stair buildings, and between buildings. - Limiting fire and explosion risks related to technology in rooms and buildings; - Limiting fire risk classes of construction materials used on exterior of building structures, including: roofs; finishes of exterior walls, rooms, and means of egress; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Installing fire detectors and fire alarms. NOTE: Regulations on fire separation distance between houses, public buildings, and manufacturing facilities are specified under Appendix E. Separation distance between combustible liquid storage, open above-ground storage of combustible substances, LPG tanks (LPG stands for Liquefied Petroleum gas), and combustible gas tanks to other constructions must conform to field-specific regulations and standards. 4.2 Apartment buildings, dorms, public buildings, manufacturing facilities, and storage facilities must meet fire prevention and fire protection requirements of this Regulation and standards designed specifically for the apartment buildings, dorms, public buildings, manufacturing facilities, and storage facilities. However, the number of storeys (which translates to maximum permissible fire height of buildings), fire compartment, and the highest storey allowed for conference rooms, lecture halls, meeting rooms, sports quarters, and rooms with similar occupancies must conform to Appendix H. 4.3 Building sections (rooms, fire emergency holding areas, mechanical floors, basements, semi-basements, and other building sections) where firefighting operations are difficult, additional equipment is required to limit burning area, fire intensity, and fire duration. 4.4 The effectiveness of solutions for preventing flame spread can be evaluated by economic - technical calculations which are based on requirements under 1.5.1 for limiting direct and indirect fire damage. 4.5 Building sections and rooms with different fire risk categories by functions must be separated from one another by separating components with fire-resistance category and fire risk levels of structures or by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions and/or type 3 fire-resistance-rated floors, unless otherwise specified in this Regulation or field-specific regulations and standards. In this case, the requirements for separating components and fire protection assemblies shall include fire risk categories by functions of rooms, fire loads, fire resistance categories, and fire risk levels of structures. In regard to a storey that serves at least 2 occupancies, if one of those occupancies is a primary occupancy and occupies at least 90% of the storey floor area and remaining occupancies supports the primary occupancy, areas with different fire risk categories by functions are not required to be separated by fire protection assemblies. In this case, the entire storey must comply with fire safety requirements corresponding to fire risk category of the primary occupancy. This regulation does not apply to cases where fire and explosion risk classes of rooms with supporting occupancies are higher than those of rooms with primary occupancies. NOTE: Specific requirements for F1.3 buildings:
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4.6 When a building has multiple sections with different fire risk categories by functions which have been separated by fire protection assemblies, each section must meet fire safety requirements applicable to buildings with similar fire risk category by functions. Fire prevention and fire protection system of the building must be selected as follows: when building sections have different fire risk categories by functions, fire resistance category of the building can exceed fire resistance category by function of any building section. 4.7 In regard to F5 buildings, if the technology permits, rooms of class A and class B must be positioned close to the exterior wall or on upper storeys in case of multistorey buildings. 4.8 In regard to basements and semi-basements, rooms of class A and class B are not allowed unless otherwise specified. 4.9 Structural elements must not facilitate the spread of deep-seated fire. NOTE: In regard to F1.3 buildings or sections thereof, balconies of loggias and balconies of the third storey or higher must be made from non-combustible materials 4.10 Fire resistance capability of components connecting structural elements must not be lower than fire resistance capability of the structural elements. 4.11 Structures creating slope floors in auditorium must meet fire-resistance rating and fire risk level requirements in accordance with Schedule 4 and Schedule 5 applicable to floors. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 4.13 Fire-retardant coatings or impregnation layers applied to exposed surfaces of structures must meet requirements applicable to finishing of the structures. Technical documents of coatings or impregnation layers must dictate the frequency in which they are reapplied or restored depending on conditions of use. For the purpose of increasing fire-resistance rating or reducing fire risk level of structures, fire-retardant layers are not allowed in positions where they cannot be reapplied or restored on a periodic basis. 4.14 The effectiveness of fire-retardant substances (materials) in reducing fire risk levels of materials must be evaluated via tests in order to determine fire risk classes of construction materials as stated under Part 2. The effectiveness of fire-retardant substances (materials) in increasing fire resistance capability of structures must be evaluated via tests in order to determine fire-resistance rating of structures as stated under Part 2. 4.15 Fire-resistance-rated partitions installed in rooms with dropped ceilings must also separate the plenum spaces. Channels and ducts carrying combustible substances in gas form, gas-vapour mix, liquid, and combustible materials are not allowed in the plenum spaces. Dropped ceilings are not allowed in rooms of class A or class B. If dropped ceilings are employed for the purpose of increasing fire-resistance ratings of floors of common storeys and floors of topmost storey, the dropped ceilings must fulfill fire risk-related requirements applicable to these floors of common storeys and floors of topmost storey. 4.16 In areas where fire protection assemblies meet enclosing structures of the buildings, including areas where the shape of the buildings changes, measures must be taken to prevent fire from spreading through these fire protection assemblies. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 4.18 Openings on fire protection assemblies must be sealed in case of fire. Windows on fire protection assemblies must be fixed windows whereas doors, hatches, and dampers must be fitted with self-closing devices and have their clearance tightly sealed. If doors, hatches, and dampers are required to be left open when used, they must be fitted with devices that close the doors, hatches, or dampers in case of fire. 4.19 Total area of openings in fire protection assemblies, other than enclosing structures of elevator shafts, must not exceed 25% of area of the fire protection assemblies. Total area of openings is not limited if fire-resistance rating of opening protectives are not lower than fire-resistance rating of fire protection assemblies (other than type 1 fire-resistance-rated walls). Opening protectives in fire protection assemblies must meet requirements under 2.3.3 and requirements of Part 4. Vestibules maintained at positive pressure must be fitted to doors of fire protection assemblies which separate rooms of class A or class B with rooms of classes other than A and B, corridors, stairwells, and elevator lobbies in accordance with Appendix D. 2 or more rooms of the same class A or class B are not allowed to use the same vestibule. 4.20 If fire protection vestibules cannot be fitted in fire protection assemblies which separate rooms of class A or class B from other rooms or when doors, hatches, and dampers cannot be fitted in fire protection assemblies which separate rooms of class C from other rooms, a combination of solutions is required to prevent flame spread and infiltration of ignitable gas, vapor, liquid vapor, combustion droplets which can present an explosion threat in the right concentration into adjacent rooms and storeys. The effectiveness of the solutions must be proven. If openings of fire protection assemblies between rooms of class C, class D, and class E cannot be protected by fire-resistance-rated doors, open vestibules equipped with automatic extinguishing systems are allowed. Enclosing structures of these vestibules must be suitable fire-resistant enclosing structures. 4.21 Fire-resistance-rated doors and fire dampers in fire protection assemblies must be made from non-combustible materials. Fire-resistance-rated doors, hatches, and fire dampers are allowed to be made from materials rated with combustibility not lower than Ch3 and protected by at least 4 mm of non-combustible materials. If doors of fire protection vestibules, fire-resistance-rated doors, and hatches in fire protection assemblies face rooms that are not used for the purpose of preserving or using combustible gas, combustible liquid, or combustible materials or implementing technology procedures which contribute to the creation of combustible dust, these doors are allowed to be made from Ch3 materials with minimum thickness of 40 mm and with no voids. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. In regard to channels, ducts, and pipes carrying the substances and materials other than the aforementioned kinds, areas where the channels, ducts, and pipes penetrate the fire protection assemblies must be fitted with devices that automatically prevent the spread of combustion production along these channels, ducts, and pipes. NOTE: Ventilation ducts and smoke ducts are allowed in fire-resistance-rated walls of houses, public buildings, and auxiliary buildings if the minimum thickness of fire-resistance-rated walls (excluding duct cross-sectional area) is not lower than 25 cm while the thickness of the segments separating smoke ducts and ventilation ducts is not lower than 12 cm. NOTE: Openings of fire protection assemblies where water pipes penetrate must be treated in accordance with 4.12. 4.23 Enclosing structures of elevator shafts (other than shafts mentioned under 3.4.6), elevator machine rooms (other than those on the roof), technical channels, ducts, and cabinets must meet requirements applicable to type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions and type 3 fire-resistance-rated floors. Fire-resistance ratings of enclosing structures between elevator shafts and elevator machine rooms are not prescribed. If fire-resistance-rated doors cannot be fitted in the aforementioned enclosing structures of elevator shafts, vestibules or lobbies must be installed and fitted with type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions and type 3 fire-resistance-rated floors or automatic shutters which activate in case of fire. These shutters must be made from non-combustible materials and rated for at least E 30. In regard to buildings fitted with smokeproof stairwells, automatic smoke protection solutions must be implemented for elevator shafts whose exits are not protected by fire protection vestibules which are maintained at positive pressure in case of fire. 4.24 Rubbish terminal rooms, rubbish chutes, and rubbish intake doors must be designed and installed in accordance with standards and technical regulations applied specifically to these apparatus and the following requirements: - Rubbish chutes and terminal rooms must be isolated from other sections of the buildings by fire protection assemblies; rubbish intake doors on each storey must be accompanied by fire-resistance-rated doors fitted with self-closing devices; - Rubbish chutes must be made from non-combustible materials; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Rooms where rubbish chutes are located or rubbish terminal rooms must be entered from a clear exterior space or through a fire protection vestibule that is regularly ventilated; - Entrances to rubbish terminal rooms must not be adjacent to exit accesses or exit access doorways of the buildings or fixed to windows of houses. 4.25 Depending on the technology involved, separate staircases are allowed for the purpose of travel between basements or semi-basements with the first storey. These staircases must be enclosed by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions and fire protection vestibules which are maintained at positive pressure in case of fire. The installation of fire protection vestibules as mentioned above is optional in regard to staircases of F5 buildings that lead from rooms of class C4, class D, or class E in the basements or semi-basements to rooms of the same class on the first storey. These staircases shall not be included for the purpose of calculating evacuation, except for cases under 3.2.1. 4.26 When installing type 2 staircases from lobby of the first storey to the second storey, this lobby must be separated from adjacent corridors and rooms by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions. 4.27 Rooms where type 2 stairwells are located in accordance with 3.4.16 must be separated from connecting corridors and other rooms by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions. The rooms where type 2 stairwells are located are not required to be separated by fire-resistance-rated partitions when: - The entire building is protected by automatic extinguishing system; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 4.28 In regard to basements or semi-basements, entrances to elevators must be accompanied by type 1 fire protection vestibules which are maintained at positive pressure in case of fire. 4.29 The selection of building dimensions and fire compartment dimension and fire separation distance must rely on fire resistance categories, fire risk levels of structures, fire risk categories by functions, and fire loads and include effectiveness of fire prevention and fire protection equipment employed, presence, position, and level of equipment of fire brigade, possible economic and ecosystem consequences led to by the fire. 4.30 During operation, all fire prevention and protection equipment must be able to operate as intended. 4.31 The installation of automatic fire alarm and fire extinguishing system must conform to TCVN 3890. 4.32 Prevention of horizontal flame spread on the façade 4.32.1 Type 1 fire-resistance-rated walls must separate exterior walls with fire risk levels K1, K2, K3 and must protrude from the exterior wall surface by at least 30 cm. Separation of the exterior walls is not required if the exterior walls have K0 fire risk level or type 1 fire-resistance-rated walls adjoin exterior wall vertically (creating vertical fire-resistant barrier) and have minimum width of 1,2 m, minimum fire-resistance rating of E 60, and fire risk level of K0. If type 2 fire-resistance-rated walls and type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions adjoin exterior walls, they must connect to vertical fire-resistant barriers, have minimum width of 1 m, and fire-resistance rating conforming to Schedule 4 or Schedule A.1 depending on the building’s height. Type 2 fire-resistance-rated partitions must connect to solid exterior walls vertically, have minimum width of 1 m and fire-resistance rating conforming to Schedule 4 or Schedule A.1 depending on the building’s height. 4.32.2 Requirements under 4.32.1 are not required if the requirements under NOTE 6 (Schedule 4) or NOTE 2 (Schedule A.1) depending on the building’s height. ... ... ... 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NOTE 1: Fire-resistance rating requirements (if any) of components along fire-resistant barriers shall conform to Schedule 4 or Schedule A.1 depending on the building’s height. Vertical separating elements must be able to maintain integrity (E); joints or opening protectives must be able to maintain integrity (E) and insulation (I); fixed connecting elements must be able to maintain load bearing capacity (R). NOTE 2: The requirements above do not apply to exit accesses and doors of loggias and balconies whose platform is more than 0,6 m in length. 4.33.2 Fire-resistance ratings of structures of exterior walls fitted with light-transmitting glass must meet requirements applicable to non-load bearing exterior walls and requirements mentioned under 4.32, 4.33. 4.33.3 When a part of exterior wall connects to another part of the wall to create an angle lower than 135o and the horizontal distance between the nearest edges of openings in all direction from the angle is less than 4m, openings on the wall part in question must be fitted with fire-resistance-rated doors with minimum fire-resistance rating of E 30 or equipped with sprinkler system. 4.33.4 Regulations under 4.33.1 through 4.33.3 are not required in regard to buildings with 3 storeys or less or fire height under 15 m and open above-ground garages or buildings that meet all requirements under NOTE 6 (Schedule 4) or NOTE 2 (Schedule A.1) depending on the building’s height. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Fire separation distance between buildings (E.1 and E.2 under Appendix E) and fire separation distance by boundaries (E.3 under Appendix E) must correspond to area of openings that are not protected by fire protection measures; fire-resistance rating of the wall segments must be able to maintain fire protection capacity. 4.35 Prevention of flame spread for atriums The design and placement of open staircases, escalators, moving walkways, glass elevators, similar appliances, and rooms with openings leading to single-loaded corridors in buildings, building complexes, atrium and atriums must fulfill the following requirements:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5 WATER SUPPLY FOR FIREFIGHTING 5.1 Water supply for outdoor firefighting 5.1.1 Fire safety requirements pertaining to water supply for outdoor firefighting 5.1.1.1 The installation of water supply for outdoor firefighting shall conform to TCVN 3890 and other superseding standard documents. 5.1.1.2 Water quality of sources of water supply for firefighting must fit operating conditions of firefighting equipment and fire control methods. 5.1.1.3 Water pipe network for firefighting is usually a low pressure network. If high pressure is sustained in the network, calculations must be made to ensure working pressure of the network. In case of high pressure pipe network, fire pumps must be equipped in order to operate within 5 minutes of fire alarm activation. 5.1.1.4 Minimum pressure in low-pressure water pipe network for firefighting (located above ground) must not be lower than 10 m. Minimum pressure in high-pressure water pipe network for firefighting must be sufficient to guarantee a minimum solid stream height of 10 m when fire flow is at maximum and nozzles are at the highest point of a building. Pressure in pipe network that additionally serves domestic or manufacturing purpose must not be lower than 10 m and not be greater than 60 m. 5.1.2 Fire safety requirements regarding fire flow for outdoor firefighting 5.1.2.1 Fire flow of loop pipe network for outdoor firefighting (for one fire incident) and number of simultaneous fire incidents in a residential area shall conform to Schedule 7. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5.1.2.3 Fire flow for outdoor firefighting of buildings with F5 fire risk category for one fire incident shall use flow rates of buildings that require the greatest values under Schedule 9 and Schedule 10. NOTE 1: When calculating fire flow for 2 fire incidents, use values that equal twice the values of buildings that require the greatest flow rates. NOTE 2: Fire flow for outdoor firefighting in detached auxiliary buildings shall use values under Schedule 8 applicable to buildings with F2, F3, F4 fire risk categories; if auxiliary buildings are located inside manufacturing facilities, calculate fire flow based on general volume of the manufacturing facilities and Schedule 9. NOTE 3: Fire flow for outdoor firefighting of buildings serving agriculture and rural development with fire resistance category of I and II, maximum volume of 5 000 m3, D and E fire and explosion risk classes, shall equal 5 L/s. NOTE 4: Fire flow for outdoor firefighting of radio stations and television stations regardless of volume of the stations and number of inhabitants in the stations’ vicinity must not be lower than 15 L/s, even when Schedule 9 and Schedule 10 prescribe a lower value. NOTE 5: Fire flow for outdoor firefighting of buildings whose volume exceeds volume under Schedule 9 and Schedule 10 must conform to special regulations. NOTE 6: In case of buildings with fire resistance category of II and wooden structures, fire flow for outdoor firefighting shall be greater than values under Schedule 9 and Schedule 10 by 5 L/s. NOTE 7: Fire flow for outdoor firefighting of buildings and cold storage of food shall be similar to that of buildings with fire risk class C. NOTE 8: Fire flow for outdoor firefighting of loaded container storage depends on the number of containers and is as follows: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. From 51 to 100 containers, 20 L/s; From 101 to 300 containers, 25 L/s; From 301 to 1 000 containers, 40 L/s; From 1 001 to 1 500 containers, 60 L/s; From 1 501 to 2 000 containers, 80 L/s; More than 2 000 containers, 100 L/s; Schedule 7 - Fire flow for outdoor firefighting in residential areas Population, x 1 000 people Number of simultaneous fire incidents ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Buildings no taller than 2 storeys regardless of fire resistance category Buildings from 3 storeys or higher regardless of fire resistance category ≤ 1 1 5 10 \> 1 and ≤ 5 1 10 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. \> 5 and ≤ 10 1 10 15 \> 10 and ≤ 25 2 10 15 \> 25 and ≤ 50 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 20 25 \> 50 and ≤ 100 2 25 35 \> 100 and ≤ 200 3 40 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. \> 200 and ≤ 300 3 55 \> 300 and ≤ 400 3 70 \> 400 and ≤ 500 3 80 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3 85 \> 600 and ≤ 700 3 90 \> 700 and ≤ 800 3 95 \> 800 and ≤ 1 000 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 \> 1 000 5 110 NOTE 1: Fire flow for outdoor firefighting in residential areas must not be lower than fire flow under Schedule 8. NOTE 2: When supplying water in regions, fire flow for outdoor firefighting and number of simultaneous fire incidents of each region shall depend on population of the region. NOTE 3: Number of simultaneous fire incidents and fire flow for 1 fire incident in a region with more than 1 million people shall conform to evaluation of special technical requirements. NOTE 4: In regard to network of group pipelines, number of simultaneous fire incidents depends on total population in a group of pipe network. The amount of water necessary to restore water in group pipelines shall be determined by maximum amount of water for firefighting in residential areas (corresponding to number of simultaneous fire incidents) in accordance with 5.1.3.3 and 5.1.3.4. NOTE 5: Number of simultaneous fire incidents in a residential area must also include fire incidents in manufacturing facilities and storage facilities in the residential area. In this case, calculated fire flow must also include the flow rate necessary for extinguishing fire of those facilities and must not be lower than values under Schedule 7. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Building type Fire flow for outdoor firefighting regardless of fire resistance category for 1 fire incident, L/s, by fire volume, 1000 m3 ≤ 1 \> 1 and ≤ 5 \> 5 and ≤ 25 \> 25 and ≤ 50 \> 50 1. F1.3, F1.4 building with one or many single-stair blocks with the following number of storeys: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. ≤ 3 10 1) 10 1) 15 15 20 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 10 15 15 20 20 \> 12 and ≤ 16 - 20 20 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 25 \> 16 - 20 25 25 30 2. F1.1, F1.2, F2, F3, and F4 buildings with the following number of storeys: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. ≤ 3 10 1) 10 1) 15 20 25 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 10 15 20 25 30 \> 12 and ≤ 16 - 20 25 ... ... ... 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NOTE 1: If capacity of outdoor network is insufficient to achieve the necessary flow rate for firefighting or when pipes are connected to a tree network, tanks or reservoirs with sufficient volume must be taken into consideration in order to maintain fire flow for outdoor firefighting for 3 hours. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Schedule 9 - Fire flow for outdoor firefighting of F5 buildings Fire resistance category of the building Fire risk level of structures Fire and explosion risk class of the building Fire flow for outdoor firefighting of buildings with roof openings regardless of building’s width, buildings without roof openings no wider than 60 m, for 1 fire incident, L/s, depending on volume of the building, 1 000 m3 ≤ 3 \> 3 and ≤ 5 \> 5 and ≤ 20 \> 20 and ≤ 50 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. \> 200 and ≤ 400 \> 400 and ≤ 600 \> 600 I and II S0, S1 D, E 10 10 10 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15 20 25 35 I and II S0, S1 A, B, C 10 10 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 20 30 35 40 50 III S0, S1 D, E 10 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15 25 35 40 45 - III S0 A, B, C ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15 20 30 45 60 75 - IV S0, S1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 10 15 20 30 40 50 60 - IV ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A, B, C 15 20 25 40 60 80 100 - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S2, S3 E 10 15 20 30 45 - - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. IV S2, S3 A, B, C 15 20 25 40 65 - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - V - E 10 15 20 30 55 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - V - C 15 20 25 40 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - - Schedule 10 - Fire flow for outdoor firefighting of F5 buildings without roof openings and wider than 60 m Fire resistance category of the building Fire risk level of structures Fire and explosion risk class of the building Fire flow for outdoor firefighting of buildings without roof openings and 60 m wide or more, for 1 fire incident, L/s, depending on volume of the building, 1 000 m3 ≤ 50 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. \> 100 and ≤ 200 \> 200 and ≤ 300 \> 300 and ≤ 400 \> 400 and ≤ 500 \> 500 and ≤ 600 \> 600 and ≤ 700 \> 700 I and II S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 20 30 40 50 60 70 80 90 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 D, E 10 15 20 25 30 35 40 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 NOTE: Roof openings mean vents positioned on the roof (ridge vents) and not smaller than 2,5 % of the building’s total area. 5.1.2.4 If a building is separated by fire-resistance-rated walls, the highest fire flow for outdoor firefighting shall prevail. 5.1.2.5 If a building is separated by fire-resistance-rated partitions, fire flow for outdoor firefighting shall be determined by overall volume of the building and the highest fire and explosion risk class. 5.1.2.6 Fire flow must be maintained even when fire flow dedicated for other demands is at the highest, including: - Tap water; - Household businesses; - Industrial and agricultural manufacturing facilities where separate pipelines are not feasible due to drinking water quality or economic purposes. - Water treatment stations, pipe network, channels, and similar; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5.1.2.7 Water supply system for outdoor firefighting of facilities (water pipes, pump stations, tanks, and reservoirs) must be reliable, must not stop supplying water for more than 10 minutes, and must not reduce fire flow by more than 30% within 3 days. 5.1.2.8 If a construction is located in an area where outdoor water supply infrastructures have not been installed or do not conform to regulations under Schedule 8, Schedule 9, and Schedule 10, instructions of competent fire and rescue police department shall prevail. 5.1.3 Calculated number of simultaneous fire incidents 5.1.3.1 Calculated number of simultaneous fire incidents of an industrial or agricultural facility must depend on the area of the facility, to be specific: - If a facility is as large as 150 ha, count as 1 fire incident; - If a facility is larger than 150 ha, count as 2 fire incidents. In regard to calculated number of simultaneous fire incidents of an open or enclosed storage facility for wooden materials: if the storage facility is as large as 50 a, count as 1 fire incident; if the storage facility is larger than 50 ha, count as 2 fire incidents. NOTE: Area of the facility that serves calculation of water supply system for outdoor firefighting shall be area of the plot on which the facility is located (excluding forest land, park land, agricultural land, or similar land on which no construction is built). 5.1.3.2 When combining firefighting pipelines of a residential area and an industrial facility which is located outside of said residential area, calculated number of simultaneous fire shall be as follows: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - If the industrial facility is larger than 150 ha and population of the residential area is up to 25 000 people, count as 2 fire incidents (2 fire incidents for the industrial facility or 2 fire incidents for the residential area depending on whichever location requires the greater fire flow); - If population of the residential area exceeds 25 000 people, count as 2 fire incidents where fire flow for 1 fire incident equals the sum of the greater fire flow (either for the industrial facility or the residential area) and 50% of the lesser fire flow (either for the industrial facility or the residential area). 5.1.3.3 Firefighting duration must be 3 hours, except for the cases below: - 2 hours for buildings with fire resistance categories I, II with insulating structures and layers made from non-combustible materials and areas of fire and explosion risk classes D and E; - 1 hour for kindergartens, preschools, F4.1 and F4.3 buildings in rural areas with fire resistance categories I and II, insulating structures and layers made from non-combustible materials, no more than 3-storey high, and up to 500 m2 of construction area; - In the case of kindergartens, preschools, F4.1 and F4.3 buildings in rural areas with fire resistance category I and II, insulating structures and layers made from non-combustible materials, no more than 3-storey high, and up to 500 m2 of building area, standpipe system is allowed as a substitution for water supply system for outdoor firefighting; - At least 5 hours in case of open storage facilities for wood materials. 5.1.3.4 The maximum amount of time for restoring water reserve for firefighting must not be greater than: - 24 hours in case of residential areas and industrial facilities of fire and explosion risk classes A, B, C; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - 72 hours in case of residential areas and agricultural facilities. NOTE: If an industrial facility requires up to 20 L/s of fire flow for outdoor firefighting, the amount of time for restoring water for firefighting shall be:
If water for firefighting cannot be restored in a timely manner as stated above, water reserve for firefighting must be supplied by n times. The value of n (n = 1,5; 2,0; 2,5; 3,0, etc.) varies depending on actual restoration time, ttt, and is calculated using the formula below: n = ttt / tqđ In which: ttt refers to the amount of time it takes in practice to restore water reserve for firefighting; tqd refers to the amount of time it takes according to 5.1.3.4 to restore water reserve for firefighting. 5.1.4 Fire safety requirements for pipe network and constructions built upon them ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5.1.4.2 Water pipe network for firefighting must be a grid network. A branch network is allowed when: water is supplied for firefighting or a combination of domestic purposes - firefighting, the pipe is not longer than 200 m regardless of the required fire flow. Outdoor pipe network is not allowed to connect to indoor pipe network via grid connection. In case of residential areas that have population of 5 000 people or less and require fire flow for outdoor firefighting of 10 L/s or less or number of standpipe outlets of 12 or less, a branch network of 200 m or more in length is allowed if tanks, reservoirs, or water towers that contain water amount necessary for firefighting are built. 5.1.4.3 Pipelines must be divided into sections by shutoff valves so that during a repair, only a maximum of 5 fire hydrants will not receive any water. 5.1.4.4 Remotely-controlled and automatically-controlled valves on all pipelines, regardless of diameter, must be operated electrically. Pneumatic, hydraulic, or electromagnetic valves are allowed. If remote or automatic control is not feasible or available, manual control is allowed for shutoff valves of 400 mm or less in diameter, electric or hydraulic control is allowed for shutoff valves of exceeding 400 mm in diameter; if separate evaluation allows, manual operation is allowed for shutoff valves of exceeding 400 mm in diameter. In all cases, manual opening and closing must be allowed. 5.1.4.5 Diameter of supply pipelines and pipe network after supply pipelines must be calculated on the following basis: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Operating conditions in case of disruption of individual segments. Diameter of water pipelines for outdoor firefighting must not be less than 100 mm for residential areas and manufacturing facilities, and 75 mm for rural areas. 5.1.4.6 Fire hydrants must be at most 2,5 m away from the edge of the road and at least 1 m away from exterior wall of the buildings; underground hydrants are allowed on public roads. 5.1.4.7 Fire hydrants must be installed on pipeline network in a manner that at least 2 hydrants are installed when the required flow rate is 15 L/s or higher or at least 1 hydrant is installed when the required flow rate is less than 15 L/s, the installed hydrants can cover any point along the width of the building, and cover radius of each hydrant does not exceed 200 m along the movement of fire hoses outside the building. NOTE: Pipe networks serving residential areas with population of up to 500 people can have 3-way hydrants replaced by DN 80 mm standpipe fitted with outlets. 5.1.4.8 Constructions required to be equipped with standpipe outlets and automatic sprinkler system must have pipelines connecting from fire pump stations of the constructions to at least a DN65 2-way or 3-way fire hydrant positioned outside of the exterior wall towards the public road. 5.1.5 Requirements for water reservoirs and tanks for outdoor firefighting. 5.1.5.1 Water reservoirs and tanks that serve specific occupancy must also serve regulation, firefighting, incident aversion, and priming. 5.1.5.2 If firefighting water is collected from water sources that do not meet economic and technical conditions, in all cases, these tanks and reservoirs must contain sufficient amount of water for firefighting according to calculations. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Supply water for firefighting from outdoor hydrants and other fire extinguishing systems; - Supply water for specific fire extinguishing equipment (sprinkler, drencher, and similar equipment) that lacks dedicated reservoirs; - Supply the maximum amount of water for domestic and manufacturing purposes throughout firefighting process. 5.1.5.4 Bodies of water which fire engines draft from must be accessible and have parking lots no smaller than 12 m x 12 m with sufficient surface load for fire engines. When calculating the volume of water in bodies of water, the supply of water into these bodies of water throughout firefighting process shall be added to the calculation if water supply system satisfactory to 5.1.2.7 is installed. 5.1.5.5 When supplying water through 1 supply pipeline, supply an additional amount of water to fulfill purposes under 5.1.5.3. The additional amount of water can be disregarded if the length of a supply pipeline does not exceed 500 m and serves a residential area with population of 5 000 people or less or serves constructions that require fire flow of 40 L/s or less. 5.1.5.6 The total number of tanks and reservoirs for firefighting in a network must not be lower than 2 (not including tanks and reservoirs for outdoor firefighting of detached constructions). Tanks and reservoirs in the same network must have the same highest and lowest water level for firefighting. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5.1.5.7 The storage of water for firefighting in specialized tanks or reservoirs or open lakes shall be permitted with respect to: - Residential areas with population of up to 5 000 people; - Buildings, regardless of occupancies, that are separate from residential areas and are not installed with pipeline systems for domestic or manufacturing purposes which provide water for outdoor water supply system; - Buildings that have different occupancies and require fire flow of 10 L/s or less for outdoor firefighting; - Buildings, regardless of occupancies, that have up to 2 storeys and are smaller than area of the fire compartment applicable to that type of buildings. 5.1.5.8 The amount of water for firefighting of reservoirs, tanks, and artificial lakes shall be determined by calculating amount of water consumed and firefighting duration in accordance with 5.1.2.2, 5.1.2.3, 5.1.2.4, 5.1.2.5, 5.1.2.6, and 5.1.3.3. NOTE 1: When calculating volume of water for firefighting of open artificial lakes, evaporation and freezing of the water must be taken into account. Minimum water level shall be 0,5 m. NOTE 2: Access to the reservoirs, tanks, and similar drafting sites must be guaranteed for fire engines. 5.1.5.9 Tanks, reservoirs, hydrants, natural and artificial lakes must be positioned in a way that guarantees service radius of: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - 100 m to 150 m with the presence of portable pumps depending on technical specifications of the pumps; - In order to increase service radius, branch pipes up to 200 m in length are allowed to connect from tanks, reservoirs, and artificial lakes while complying with 5.1.5.8; - Distance from drafting sites of tanks, reservoirs, or artificial lakes to buildings with fire resistance categories III, IV, and V or to open storage of combustible materials must be 30 m or less; distance from drafting sites of tanks, reservoirs, or artificial lakes to buildings with fire resistance categories I and II must be 10 m or less. 5.1.5.10 If drafting directly from tanks or reservoirs by pumper trucks or portable pumps is not feasible, install water grates with volume ranging from 3 m3 to 5 m3. Diameter of pipes connecting to tanks, reservoirs, or grates must be calculated depending on fire flow for outdoor firefighting and must not be lower than 200 mm. The joints must be protected by shutoff valve boxes to block water. the opening and closing of the valves must be done outside of the boxes. The pipe end that connects to the artificial lakes must be fitted with mesh. 5.1.5.11 Pressure tanks and reservoirs for firefighting must also be fitted with water gauge and water level indicators which send signals to pump stations or distribution stations. Pressure tanks and reservoirs of high-pressure firefighting pipes must be fitted with equipment that cuts off water supply to tanks, reservoirs, and towers when fire pumps are engaged. 5.1.5.12 If pressure tanks or reservoirs use compressed air, backup compressors are required in addition to the operating compressors. 5.2 Standpipe system 5.2.1 Houses, public buildings, administrative - auxiliary buildings of industrial constructions must be fitted with standpipe system with minimum flow rate for firefighting conforming to Schedule 11. Flow rate of standpipe system installed in manufacturing facilities and storage facilities shall conform to Schedule 12. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Based on fire flow, hydrants shall be classified into: - Low fire flow (from 0,2 L/s to 1,5 L/s). Equipment for use with low fire flow outlets has diameter of DN 5, DN 10, DN 15, DN 20, DN 25, and DN 40; - Moderate fire flow (greater than 1,5 L/s). If low fire flow outlets are used, total fire flow and height of solid stream shall conform to Schedule 11, Schedule 12, and Schedule 13. Schedule 11 - Minimum number of streams and minimum fire flow of standpipe system Houses and public buildings Number of streams per storey Minimum fire flow, L/s, of a stream 1. Houses and apartment buildings ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1 2,5 ≤ 16 storeys, when length of common corridors > 10 m 2 2,5 \> 16 and ≤ 25 storeys, when length of common corridors ≤ 10 m 2 2,5 \> 16 and ≤ 25 storeys, when length of common corridors > 10 m ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2,5 2. Administrative buildings 1) ≤ 10 storeys and volume ≤ 25 000 m3 1 2,5 ≤ 10 storeys and volume > 25 000 m3 2 2,5 10 storeys and volume ≤ 25 000 m3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2,5 10 storeys and volume > 25 000 m3 3 2,5 3. Clubs with stages, theaters, cinemas, rooms equipped with audiovisual equipment (for conferences, seminars, and similar purposes) ≤ 300 seats 2 2,5 \> 300 seats ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5,0 4. Dorms and public houses (except section 2) 2) ≤ 10 storeys and volume ≤ 25 000 m3 1 2,5 ≤ 10 storeys and volume > 25 000 m3 2 2,5 \> 10 storeys and volume ≤ 25 000 m3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2,5 \> 10 storeys and volume > 25 000 m3 3 2,5 5. Administrative - auxiliary buildings of industrial facilities with volume ≤ 25 000 m3 1 2,5 \> 25 000 m3 ... ... ... 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- Houses, dorms, multipurpose buildings, hotels, detached houses combining with other functions, motels, rooms for rent, other accommodations established under the Law on Tourism; - Karaoke venues, discotheques, bars, clubs, beauty salons, massage service providers, recreational parks, zoos, aquariums; - Electronic appliance stores, supermarkets, department stores; convenient stores, restaurants, diners; - General clinics, specialized clinics; beauty salons; - Museums, libraries, galleries, exhibits, storage facilities, bookstores, fairs; - Stadiums, indoor sports stadiums, sports centers, race tracks, shooting ranges, other sports establishments established under the Law on Sports; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. -Kindergartens, preschools, primary schools, lower secondary schools, upper secondary schools, multi-level schools, colleges, universities, institutes, intermediate professional education institutions, vocational education and training institutions, continuous education institutions, other education institutions established under the Law on Education; - Sanitariums, intensive care wards, orthopaedic wards, nursing homes. Schedule 12 - Minimum number of streams and minimum fire flow for indoor firefighting for manufacturing facilities and storage facilities Fire resistance category Fire and explosion risk class Fire risk level of structure Minimum number of streams and fire flow, L/s, of 1 stream, for indoor firefighting of manufacturing facilities and storage facilities with minimum fire height of 50 m and depending on volume, 1 000 m3 ≤ 150 \> 150 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A, B, C S0, S1 2 x 2,5 3 x 2,5 D, E No regulations 1 x 2,5 1 x 2,5 III ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 2 x 2,5 3 x 2,5 D, E S0, S1 1 x 2,5 2 x 2,5 IV A, B ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2 x 2,5 3 x 2,5 C S0, S1 2 x 2,5 2 x 5 C S2, S3 3 x 2,5 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. D, E S0, S1, S2, S3 1 x 2,5 2 x 2,5 V C No regulations 2 x 2,5 2 x 5 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. No regulations 1 x 2,5 2 x 2,5 Schedule 13 - Fire flow depending on height of solid stream and diameter of nozzles Height of solid stream, m Fire flow, L/s Pressure, MPa, of standpipe outlet with hose reel length, m Fire flow, L/s Pressure, MPa, of standpipe outlet with hose reel length, m ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Pressure, MPa, of standpipe outlet with hose reel length, m 10 15 20 10 15 20 10 15 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Diameter of nozzle, mm 13 16 19 DN 50 standpipe outlet 1) 6 - - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - 2,6 0,092 0,096 0,100 3,4 0,088 0,096 0,104 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - - - 2,9 0,120 0,125 0,130 4,1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,138 0,148 10 - - - - 3,3 0,151 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,164 4.6 0,160 0,173 0,185 12 2,6 0,202 0,206 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3,7 0,192 0,196 0,210 5,2 0,206 0,223 0,240 14 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,236 0,241 0,245 4,2 0,248 0,255 0,263 - - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - 16 3,2 0,316 0,322 0,328 4,6 0,293 0,300 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - - - 18 3,6 0,390 0,398 0,406 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,360 0,380 0,400 - - - - DN 65 standpipe outlet 1) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - - - 2,6 0,088 0,089 0,090 3,4 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,080 0,083 8 - - - - 2,9 0,110 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,114 4,1 0,114 0,117 0,121 10 - - - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3,3 0,140 0,143 0,146 4,6 0,143 0,147 0,151 12 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,198 0,199 0,201 3,7 0,180 0,183 0,186 5,2 0,182 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,199 14 2,8 0,23 0,231 0,233 4,2 0,230 0,233 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5,7 0,218 0,224 0,230 16 3,2 0,31 0,313 0,315 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,276 0,280 0,284 6,3 0,266 0,273 0,280 18 3,6 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,383 0,385 5,1 0,338 0,342 0,346 7,0 0,329 0,338 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 20 4,0 0,464 0,467 0,470 5,6 0,412 0,424 0,418 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0,372 0,385 0,397
5.2.2 In order to calculate pump capacity and water reserve for firefighting, number of streams and fire flow in public buildings in regard to sections located at a fire height above 50 m must be 4 streams and 2,5 L/s each stream respectively. Number of streams and fire flow of F5 buildings with fire and explosion risk classes A, B, C and fire height above 50 m shall be 4 streams and 5 L/s each stream respectively. 5.2.3 In case of manufacturing facilities and storage facilities that utilize structure types prone to fire damage, according to Schedule 12, the minimum fire flow for the purpose of calculating pump capacity and water reserve for firefighting determined in accordance with Schedule 12 must be increased on a case-by-case basis as follows: - When employing steel structures that are not protected by fire protection measures in buildings with fire resistance categories III, IV (S2 or S3), as well as structures made from natural wood or MDF board (wood in this case has been protected by fire protection measures), increase by an additional 5 L/s; - When employing combustible materials surrounding structures of buildings with fire resistance category IV (S2 or S3), increase by an additional 5 L/s for buildings with up to 10 000 m3 in volume. Or in case of buildings with more than 10 000 m3 in volume, increase by an additional 5 L/s for every extra 100 000 m3 and every extra amount that does not add up to 100 000 m3. 5.2.4 Number of streams serving each fire location shall be 2 in regard to constructions that require at least 2 streams. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - In regard to buildings that are not separated by fire-resistance-rated walls, calculated based on overall volume; - In regard to buildings that are separated by type 1 or type 2 fire-resistance-rated walls, calculated based on volume of the building section that requires the highest fire flow. When connecting buildings with fire resistance categories I and II by walkways built out of non-combustible materials and protected by fire-resistance-rated doors, the volume used for the purpose of calculating fire flow shall be volume of each building; if the connecting walkways are not protected by fire-resistance-rated doors, volume of both buildings shall be used for the purpose of calculating fire flow and the higher fire risk class shall prevail. 5.2.6 Hydrostatic pressure in domestic - firefighting water system when measured at sanitary - technical equipment which is located at the lowest water level must not exceed 0,45 MPa. Hydrostatic of separate fire extinguishing system measured at standpipe outlets which are located at the lowest water level must not exceed 0,90 MPa. During calculation, if pressure in a fire extinguishing system exceeds 0,45 MPa, a separate network of fire extinguishing system is required. If pressure between valves and couplings of standpipe outlets exceeds 0,4 MPa, installation of membrane and equipment for adjusting pressure is required in order to reduce residual pressure. 5.2.7 Discharge pressure of standpipe outlets must be sufficient to maintain height of solid stream for firefighting at all time of day, even for the highest and furthest point. Minimum height and radius of solid stream must equal the height of the area, from the floor to the highest point of the girder (ceiling), but must not be lower than the following values: - Not lower than 6 m in case of houses, public buildings, manufacturing facilities, and auxiliary constructions of industrial facilities with fire height of up to 50 m; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Not lower than 16 m in case of public buildings, manufacturing facilities and auxiliary constructions of industrial facilities with fire height above 50 m. NOTE 1: Pressure of standpipe outlets must be calculated for hose reels of 10 m, 15 m, and 20 m in length. NOTE 2: In order to facilitate solid stream with fire flow of up to 4 L/s, use DN 50 outlets; in case of greater fire flow, use DN 65 outlets. If economic - technical evaluation permits, DN 50 outlets are allowed for fire flow exceeding 4 L/s 5.2.8 Design of pressure tanks must be able to maintain height of solid stream above 4 m for the highest storey or the storey below the storey where the tanks are located, and not lower than 6 m for the other storeys; in this case, guarantee 2 streams of 2,5 L/s of fire flow each for 10 minutes if the calculated number of streams is at least 2 or guarantee 1 stream for all other cases. When installing standpipe outlets which act as automatic activation sensors of fire pumps, pressure tanks are not required to be taken into consideration. 5.2.9 If standpipe outlets are installed separately from automatic fire extinguishing systems, volume of reserve tanks must contain sufficient water for use by 1 standpipe outlet and other demand for 1 hour. If standpipe outlets are installed on automatic fire extinguishing system, working time of the outlets shall equal working time of the automatic fire extinguishing system. 5.2.10 In buildings of 6 storeys or higher, if domestic and firefighting water systems are connected, vertical pipes must be connected in grid on upper storeys. In this case, in order to change water in the buildings, vertical grid network must be connected to one or several vertical discharge pipes fitted with shutoff valves. Dry pipes systems installed in buildings that are not heated, shutoff valves must be fitted in areas where they cannot be frozen. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Double outlets are allowed on standpipes in manufacturing facilities and public buildings if calculated number of streams is not lower than 3, and in houses if calculated number of streams is not lower than 2; - In houses where corridor length is up to 10 m and number of streams is 2 for each area, 2 streams are allowed from the same standpipe; - In houses where corridor length exceeds 10 m as well as manufacturing facilities and public buildings where at least 2 streams are required for each area, 2 streams from 2 adjacent fire hose cabinets (2 different outlets). NOTE 1: Standpipe outlets are required in mechanical floors, attics, and mechanical basements if they contain materials and structures made from combustible materials. NOTE 2: Number of streams per cabinets must not be greater than 2. 5.2.12 Standpipe outlets must be positioned at a height of 1,20 m ± 0,15 m above the floor and in ventilated, sealed fire hose cabinets. In case of double standpipe outlets, they can be positioned vertically and the lower outlet must be at least 1,0 m away from the floor. 5.2.13 Standpipe system in buildings and constructions must have outlets on the exterior of the buildings and constructions with proper coupling size to facilitate connection with portable firefighting equipment. In regard to buildings of 17 storeys or more, fire department connections (hereinafter referred to as “FDC”) for standpipe system must be separated into zones throughout the height of the buildings where each zone is not taller than 50 m. These connections must be fitted with check valves and openly sealed. 5.2.14 Standpipe outlets must be positioned at entrances to corridors (where water cannot be frozen) of stairwells (other than smokeproof stairwells), lobbies, corridors, walkways, and other accessible locations. In this case, the positioning of standpipe outlets must not obstruct evacuation. 5.2.15 In areas where automatic fire extinguishing system is installed, standpipe outlets are allowed on DN 65 pipes or larger after control valve clusters of water sprinkler system. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5.2.17 Shutoff valves fitted to branch network and larger valves fitted to grid network of steel pipes must be positioned in a way that each pipe segment only deactivates at most 5 standpipe outlets on a single storey. 5.2.18 Depending on occupancy of protected structures, the following protection measures for standpipe outlets are available: - Measure 1: utilize standpipe outlets with moderate fire flow. This measure is allowed for all types of constructions; - Measure 2: utilize standpipe outlets with low fire flow in combination with dry pipes. This measure is allowed for houses and public buildings; - Measure 3: utilize standpipe outlets with low fire flow. This measure is allowed for constructions equipped with automatic extinguishing system throughout; - Measure 4: utilize standpipe outlets with low fire flow in combination with those with moderate fire flow. This measure is allowed for houses and public buildings. NOTE: In the same construction, multiple measures can be utilized simultaneously. 5.3 Fire pump station 5.3.1 Fire pumps, whether installed separately or in combination with domestic and/or production water system, require backup pumps with capacity similar to that of the main pumps. The quantity of backup pumps is regulated as follows: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - If at least 4 fire pumps are required, at least 2 backup pumps are required; Fire pumps must be connected to a grid power source and generator power source or must utilize internal combustion engine. Backup pumps or backup power source is not required when water is supplied for manufacturing facilities, storage facilities with fire resistance categories I or II, fire and explosion risk classes D or E and the required fire flow for outdoor firefighting is less than 20 L/s. 5.3.2 Fire pumps can be manually operated or remotely controlled and must be engaged within 3 minutes of fire alarm activation. If the required fire flow for outdoor firefighting is at least 25 L/s, a remote control mechanism is required for fire pumps. 5.3.3 If pressure of standpipe system is insufficient to supply the outlets, a remote control apparatus must be positioned in the same area as the standpipe outlets. 6 FIREFIGHTING AND RESCUE 6.1 Buildings and constructions must be able to facilitate firefighting and rescue via the following solutions: structural, premise - spatial arrangement, technical - construction, and organization. These solutions include: - Situate fire lanes, fire engine parking spaces, and other accesses for fire brigade and firefighting equipment in combination with roads and walkways depending on occupancies of the buildings or separately; - Situate outdoor fire escape stairs and other necessary equipment in order to allow fire brigade and other firefighting equipment to reach all storeys and the roof of the buildings, including elevators equipped with “Fire service mode” (hereinafter referred to as “fire service elevators”); ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Install smoke protection measures on passages of fire brigade; - Equip life-saving equipment throughout the buildings; - Situate and build fire prevention, firefighting constructions and fire stations based on the number of employees and firefighting equipment in order to meet firefighting conditions of constructions or areas within the service radius of these stations according to applicable laws. The aforementioned solutions shall be selected based on fire resistance category, fire risk level of structures, and fire risk category by function of buildings and constructions. With respect to areas with insufficient public traffic and water supply infrastructures according to this Regulation, firefighting and rescue solutions shall conform to specific guidelines of local fire prevention and firefighting authorities. 6.2 Fire lane and fire engine parking space 6.2.1 General requirements 6.2.1.1 Clear width of road surface for fire engines must not be lower than 3,5 m. 6.2.1.2 Fire engine parking lot must have sufficient clear width to allow fire engines to enter and deploy firefighting equipment depending on fire height and fire risk category by functions under Schedule 14. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Fire risk category by function / Parking space dimension Fire engine parking space, m, corresponding to fire height of building, m ≤ 15 \> 15 and ≤ 28 1) \> 28 1. F1.3 buildings ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
Not required ≥ 6 ≥ 6
Not required ≥ 15 ≥ 15 2. Buildings of other fire risk categories ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
Not required ≥ 6 ≥ 6
See Schedule 15 and Schedule 16 See Schedule 15 and Schedule 16 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
6.2.1.3 Overhead structures on fire lane and fire engine parking space are allowed only when all of the following conditions are met: - Clear height must not be lower than 4,5 m; - Length of the overhead structures (measured along the length of fire lane and fire engine parking space) must not exceed 10 m; - If at least 2 overhead structures are installed above fire lane or fire engine parking space, the clearance between these structures must not be lower than 20 m; - Length of the last segments of fire lane or fire engine parking space which are not obstructed to the sky by overhead structures must not be less than 20 m; - Length of fire engine parking space must not include segments covered by overhead structures. 6.2.1.4 Entry from an elevated position (hereinafter referred to as “elevated entry”) must be located along the exterior wall that faces fire engine parking space in a manner that conforms to 6.3 in order to facilitate firefighting and rescue operations. 6.2.2 Requirements for fire lane and fire engine parking space are as follows: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 6.2.2.2 F1.3 buildings with fire height exceeding 15 m must meet all of the requirements below: - Build fire lane within 18 m of travel distance from the end point of entrances leading to all vestibules of fire service elevators or of exit access stairwells fitted with DN 65 FDCs intended for use by fire brigade (of dry pipe system); - Build fire engine parking spaces which grant access to at least one exterior side of each block. Fire engine parking spaces must be within 2 m and 10 m from exterior wall of the building; - Design of fire engine parking spaces and fire lane must satisfy requirements under Schedule 14. 6.2.2.3 Each area of F1.1, F1.2, F2, F3, and F4 buildings or building sections with fire height exceeding 15 m that is fitted with elevated entry must be accompanied by a fire engine parking space to facilitate access to doorways of elevated access. Length of fire engine parking space shall conform to Schedule 15 depending on accessible floor area of the storey that has the highest accessible floor area. In case of buildings with floor penetrations, the value shall be calculated as follows:
If manufacturing conditions do not require entrance, fire lane can be road segments that are 3,5 m wide and reinforced by materials that can support load of fire engines and discharge surface water. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. When necessary, the distance from the inner edge of the road to the exterior wall of the buildings and constructions can be increased to 60 m as long as these buildings and constructions are led to from dead-end streets, have turnarounds for fire engines, and have hydrants nearby. In this case, the distance from buildings and constructions to the turnarounds for fire engines must range from 5 m to 15 m and distance between dead-end streets must not exceed 100 m. NOTE 1: Width of buildings and constructions shall be determined by dimension lines NOTE 2: In regard to reservoirs employed for firefighting purposes, an entrance yard is required with each side not shorter than 12 m Schedule 15 - Length of fire engine parking space for F1.1, F1.2, F2, F3, F4 buildings or building sections Accessible floor area, m2 Required length of fire engine parking space, based on building circumference, m Non sprinkler-protected building Sprinkler-protected building ≤ 2 000 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1/6 of the circumference and not lower than 15 m \> 2 000 and ≤ 4 000 1/4 of the circumference 1/6 of the circumference and not lower than 15 m \> 4 000 and ≤ 8 000 1/2 of the circumference 1/4 of the circumference \> 8 000 and ≤ 16 000 3/4 of the circumference ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. \> 16 000 and ≤ 32 000 Surrounding the building premise 1) 3/4 of the circumference \> 32 000 Surrounding the building premise 1) Surrounding the building premise 1)
Schedule 16 - Length of fire engine parking space of F5 buildings ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Required length of fire engine parking space, based on building circumference, m Non sprinkler-protected building Sprinkler-protected building ≤ 28 400 1/6 of the circumference and not lower than 15 m 1/6 of the circumference and not lower than 15 m \> 28 400 and ≤ 56 800 1/4 of the circumference 1/6 of the circumference and not lower than 15 m ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1/2 of the circumference 1/4 of the circumference \> 85 200 and ≤ 113 600 3/4 of the circumference 1/4 of the circumference \> 113 600 and ≤ 170 400 Surrounding the building premise 1) 1/2 of the circumference \> 170 400 and ≤ 227 200 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3/4 of the circumference \> 227 200 Surrounding the building premise 1) Surrounding the building premise 1)
6.2.2.4 Fire lane or fire engine parking space of multipurpose building must meet the following requirements:
- Total compartment volume of F5 building sections; or ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
Basements are required to have fire lane within 18 m from above-ground entrances of vestibules of fire service elevators or exit access stairwells fitted with DN 65 FDCs intended for fire brigade (of dry pipe system). 6.2.3 Fire engine parking space must be positioned in a way that the horizontal distance from the inner edge of the parking space to the center point of the elevated entry is not closer than 2 m and not further than 10 m. 6.2.4 Fire engine parking space must have a level surface. If the parking space is located on a slope, the pitch must not exceed 1:15. The pitch of fire lane must not exceed 1:8,3. 6.2.5 If the length of fire lane or dead end fire engine parking space is greater than 46 m, a turnaround must be built at the end of the dead-end segment in accordance with 6.4. 6.2.6 Public roads can be used as fire engine parking space if they meet requirements pertaining to distance to elevated entry under 6.2.3 6.2.7 Fire lane and fire engine parking space must be clear of obstacles at all time. The void between fire engine parking space and elevated entry must not be obstructed by trees or other stationary objects. 6.2.8 All corners of fire engine parking space and fire lane must be marked on both sides which are no more than 5 m apart by reflective paint which must be visible at night, unless public roads are used as fire engine parking space or fire lane. Signs must be erected at starting points and end points of fire lane or fire engine parking space and must contain white background, red letters, and minimum letter height of 50 mm. The height from ground level to the lowest point of the signs must vary between 1,0 m to 1,5 m. The signs must be visible at night and must be no more than 3 m away from fire lane or fire engine parking space. All parts of fire lane or fire engine parking space must not be more than 15 m away from the nearest signs. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 6.3 Elevated entry for firefighting and rescue 6.3.1 Elevated entry must be clear and unobstructed at all time while the building is occupied. Elevated entry can be openings of the exterior wall, windows, balconies, walls fitted with glass, and doors that can be opened from both sides. Items and objects of all kind that can obstruct travel must not be located within 1 m of floorspace of elevated entry on the building side. 6.3.2 Elevated entry must face an occupied space. Elevated entry must not be located in storage rooms, machine rooms, exit access stairwells, smoke protected lobbies, fire service elevator lobbies, or a space that lead to a dead end. 6.3.3 The outside of doors of elevated entry must be marked by a sign which is a red or yellow equilateral triangle, has minimum side length of 150 mm, has one of its vertices pointing up or down, contains the phrase “LỐI VÀO TỪ TRÊN CAO - KHÔNG DƯỢC GÂY CẢN TRỞ” (ELEVATED ENTRY - STAY CLEAR) with minimum letter height of 25 mm. 6.3.4 Elevated entry must have minimum width of 850 mm, minimum height of 1 000 mm, lower edge at least 1 100 mm away from the floor on the building side, and upper edge at most 1 800 mm away from the floor on the building side. 6.3.5 Quantity and position of elevated entry of each fire compartment of the building or building section of category other than F1.3 must meet the following requirements: In case of F1.1, F1.2, F2, F3, F4, and F5 buildings, the required number of elevated entry must be calculated depending on the length of fire engine parking space. Every segment that is at most 20 m in length requires an elevated entry; - Elevated entry must be physically distant from one another and positioned along the side of the building. The maximum distance between the center of any two elevated entries served by the same fire engine parking space measured on the exterior wall must not exceed 20 m. Elevated entry must be distributed in a way that at least 1 elevated entry is guaranteed for every 20 m in length of the fire engine parking space, except for sections of single-storey buildings of category other than F5; - In case F1.1, F1.2, F2, F3, and F4 buildings with fire height ranging from exceeding 15 m to 50 m, elevated entry is required on every storey but the first storey and must face fire engine parking space; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Elevated entry requirements do not apply to F1.3 buildings, including auxiliary sections (for example: gym, club room, rooms with similar occupancies for the building inhabitants) thereof. 6.4 The turnaround must be: - An equilateral triangle which has side length not less than 7 m, one vertex at the dead end, and 2 other vertices on both sides of the road; - A square which has side length not less than 12 m; - A circle which has diameter not less than 10 m; - A square which is perpendicular to the dead end, distributed evenly to both sides of the road, not smaller than 5 m x 20 m. NOTE: The dimensions mentioned above are the minimum dimensions, local fire and rescue departments can introduce specific regulations based on technical requirements of firefighting equipment of each area. 6.5 If the road only allows a single lane, every 100 m or less of road length must contain an extended segment which is at least 8 m long and 7 m wide to allow fire engines and other vehicles to avoid collision. 6.6 Two-storey buildings or higher that have flat roof or pitched roof whose slope is less than 25% and are 10 m or more in height which is calculated from ground level to the roof overhang or upper edge of exterior wall (wall surrounding the roof) must have roof access from stairwells or through attics or through type 3 stairwells or exterior fire escape stairs. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Fire escape stairs are not required on the front side of the building if the building's width does not exceed 150 m and water pipes for firefighting are installed in front of the building. 6.7 Attics of the building, except F1.4 building, must have roof access via fixed staircases and doors, hatches, or windows no smaller than 0,6 m x 0,8 m. Roof access or attic access from stairwells must be positioned along stringers, led from landings, through type 2 fire-resistance-rated doors which are not smaller than 0,75 m x 1,5 m. The aforementioned stringers and landings can be made of steel and must have minimum pitch (slope) of 2:1 (63,5o) and minimum width of 0,7 m. Attic access or roof access in F1, F2, F3, and F4 buildings with up to 15 m of fire height can be led from stairwells to type 2 fire-resistance-rated hatches with dimensions of 0,6 m x 0,8 m and to fixed steel ladder. 6.8 Clear height of walkways must not be less than 1,8 m in mechanical floors, including mechanical floors in the basements and attics, or not be less than 1,6 m in attics throughout the building. The width of these walkways must not be less than 1,2 m. The clear height and width can be reduced to 1,2 m and 0,9 m respectively in separate segments of up to 2 m in length. 6.9 Buildings with attic mezzanines require hatches on enclosing structures of corners of the attics. 6.10 Areas where roof height changes by more than 1,0 (including those supporting light-transmitting openings - vents) must be accompanied by fire escape stairs. Areas where roof height changes by more than 10 m are not required to be accompanied by fire escape stairs if a dedicated roof access satisfactory to 6.6 is built for every roof area larger than 100 m2 or if height of lower section of the roof according to 6.6 is not more than 10 m. 6.11 If roof access is provide by means of outside fire escape stairs according to requirements under 6.6, P1 fire escape stairs are required to reach a height up to 20 m and areas where roof height changes from 1,0 m to 20 m; P2 fire escape stairs are required to reach a height above 20 m and areas where roof height changes more than 20 m. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 6.12 A minimum clearance of 100 mm must be provided between stringers and guardrails thereof. 6.13 Each fire compartment of building with fire height exceeding 28 m (or exceeding 50 m in case of F1.3 building) or building where distance from the floor of the lowest basement to the exit discharge is greater than 9 m requires at least one fire service elevator. NOTE: Other technical requirements such as electric cables, control, signal transmission, communication systems, fire protection equipment, and similar systems must conform to specific national technical regulations applicable to fire service elevators The positioning and installation of fire service elevators must meet the following basic requirements: - Elevators primarily used for cargo transport must not be used as fire service elevators; - In normal condition, fire service elevators can be used for human transportation. Fire service elevators can be built in a separate elevator lobby or in the same elevator lobby as other passenger elevators and controlled by an automatic group control system; - Fire service elevator quantity must be calculated to ensure a maximum travel distance of 60 m from any point on a storey to the nearest fire service elevator; - If only one fire service elevator is installed, that elevator must be able to reach all storeys adjacent to the burning storeys; - If multiple fire service elevators are situated in the same shaft, these elevators can serve different sections of the building as long as area of service of each elevator must be depicted thereon; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Every refuge floor must be served by at least one fire service elevator; - In normal mode, fire service elevator must not open at these refuge floors while hoistway doors on the refuge floors must remain locked at all time and shall only be unlocked automatically when fire service mode is engaged. In case of fire, all fire service elevators must allow firemen to: - Be the only person controlling and operating the fire service elevator to reach the fire while carrying their equipment in an easy, familiar, safe, and rapid manner; - Be protected from fire and smoke hazards by appropriate solutions, especially when they exit the elevators; - Have a clear and safe means to access the elevators and access storeys served by the elevators; - Access potentially burning storeys of the building when at least 2 fire service elevators are installed without having to traverse more than 2 storeys; - Be protected in separate elevator shafts (instead of sharing elevator shafts with other elevators), each of which shall only facilitate no more than 3 fire service elevators. Enclosing structures of elevator shafts must have minimum fire-resistance rating of REI 120. Lobby of fire service elevator shall be a vestibule and: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Shall not be smaller than 6 m2 if it is combined with lobby of smokeproof stairwell; - Shall be enclosed by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions; - Shall be fitted with DN 65 FDCs for fire brigade; - Shall allow fire brigade to access every room on every storey of the building; - Shall have minimum load of 630 kg if the elevator is built in F1.3 apartment building or 1 000 kg if the elevator is built in manufacturing facility or other public structure; - Shall have minimum speed of H/60 (m/s) where H refers to the lifting height (m); - Have enclosing structures of elevator cabs made from non-combustible materials or mildly flammable materials. 6.14 Guardrails or handrails compliant with applicable standards are required on roof of buildings where roof pitch is 12 % or less and height from ground level to roof overhang or upper edge of the exterior wall exceeds 10 m and on roof of buildings where roof pitch exceeds 12 % and height from ground level to roof overhang exceeds 7 m. These guardrails and handrails are also required on flat roofs, balconies, loggias, open corridors, outdoor open staircases, stair stringers and landings regardless of fire height of the building. 6.15 Water supply system for firefighting of building must allow access and use by fire brigade and firefighting equipment at all time. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 6.17 Fire command center 6.17.1 Houses and public structures with more than 10 storeys; buildings with 2 to 3 basements; public assembly structures (theaters, cinemas, discotheques, karaoke venues that require at least 2 exit accesses according to A.4, and buildings with similar occupancies where occupant load of each storey according to Schedule G.9 (Appendix G) exceeds 50 people); garages (parking spaces for motor vehicles, motorcycles, bicycles), manufacturing facilities, storage facilities with total floor area exceeding 18 000 m2 require fire command centers which must be stationed by standby trained employees on a regular basis. 6.17.2 Fire command center must: - Be large enough to accommodate equipment required by the building’s fire protection requirements and not smaller than 6 m2; - Have 2 entryways: one of which leads to an outdoor open space and the other leads to the main corridors for evacuation; - Be physically separated from other sections of the building by type 1 fire-resistance-rated fire protection assemblies; - Be fitted with communication devices and act as contact point of fire alarm system to keep contact with other sections of the building; - Be fitted with panels to monitor and control fire extinguishing equipment, smoke control equipment, and contain layout of the building which specifies location of firefighting equipment. 6.18 All basements in a building with 2 to 3 basements must be equipped with two-way emergency communication system to facilitate communication between fire command centers and: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - All rooms equipped with control units of smoke control system; - Fire service elevators; - Emergency holding areas; - Ventilation system control rooms. 7 ORGANIZING IMPLEMENTATION 7.1 Transition clauses 7.1.1 Construction design dossiers that have been revised or approved for fire prevention and firefighting by competent authorities before the effective date hereof shall remain effective and shall be complied with. 7.1.2 Construction design dossiers that have been revised or approved for fire prevention and firefighting by competent authorities from the effective date hereof must comply with this Regulation. 7.2 Ministry of Construction is responsible for popularizing and guiding the application of this Regulation to relevant entities. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 7.4 Local competent authorities in fire prevention and firefighting and construction are responsible for cooperating in promulgating regulations pertaining to technical specifications in order to design and build fire lane and fire engine parking space depending on characteristics of local firefighting equipment. 7.5 Difficulties that arise during the implementation of this Regulation should be reported to the Science - Technology and Environment Department - Ministry of Construction. APPENDIX A (regulations) ADDITIONAL REGULATIONS APPLICABLE TO SPECIFIC BUILDING TYPES A.1 Manufacturing facility and storage facility A.1.1 Scope A.1.1.1 F5.1 and F5.2 manufacturing facilities for producing products and goods with up to 1 basement. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.1.1.3 Not applicable to the following buildings and rooms:
A.1.1.4 Not applicable to manufacturing facilities that employ foreign standards pertaining to fire prevention and firefighting in design according to Vietnamese laws as long as competent fire and rescue police departments approve. A.1.2 General provisions A.1.2.1 Total building area shall equal the sum of area of all storeys (above-ground storeys, including mechanical floors, semi-basements, and basements) which is measured within the inside of surrounding walls (or the center of surrounding pillars in regard to areas that lack surrounding walls); tunnels; floors of supporting platforms, floors of mezzanines; floors of other supporting platforms in the buildings; loading platforms (docks); corridors in the buildings and corridors connecting other buildings. Total building area shall not include: area of mechanical floors whose height from the floor to the lowest point of upper protruding structure is less than 1,8 m (where walkways for maintaining service ducts are not required); area above the dropped ceiling; floor areas of multi-level supporting platforms used for maintaining rails below bridge crane, maintaining crane, conveyor belts, monorails, and lighting appliances. A room whose clear height extends to 2 storeys in a multistorey building shall be included in total building area of a storey. For the purpose of determining the total number of storeys of the building, the floor of each supporting platform and mezzanine that is located at any elevation and larger than 40% of a storey’s area shall count as one storey. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Building area shall be determined by outside circumference of buildings at height of the wall skirt, including any projection, underpass, and building section that lacks enclosing structures. A.1.2.2 Building volume shall be the sum of volume of the above-ground sections calculated from the reference plane and the below-ground sections from the finish floor of the lowest basement to the reference plane. Volume of above-ground sections and below-ground sections of the building shall be calculated by exterior dimensions of enclosing structures, including light-transmitting openings and vents of each section of the building. A.1.2.3 Height of rooms calculated from the floor to the lowest point of ceiling or roof projection must not be lower than 2,2 m. Height of regularly attended walkways and means of egress calculated from the floor to the lowest point of service duct and equipment projection must not be lower than 2,0 m; such height of non-regularly attended walkways must not be lower than 1,8 m. Clear height of passages for fire engine entrance must not be lower than 4,5 m. A.1.2.4 In regard to mechanical floors, if the involved technology requires walkways for maintenance of technical equipment, service ducts, and auxiliary technology equipment located therein, the height of these walkways must be selected in a manner that satisfies A.1.2.3. A.1.2.5 Exits from basements must be located outside of operation range of lifting and carrying equipment. A.1.2.6 Width of vestibules and fire protection vestibules outside of elevator doors must be at least 0,5 m wider than elevator door width (0,25 m to each door leaf), and depth of these vestibules must not be less than 1,2 and must be at least 0,2 m wider than elevator door width. If these structures are used by wheelchair-bound persons, these vestibules must be at least 1,8 m deep and at least 1,4 m wide. A.1.2.7 Rooms with fire and explosion risk classes A and B are required to be fitted with detachable exterior sheets. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Steel, aluminum; - Soft roof tiles, metal roof tiles; - Rock and materials that retain heat effectively. Area of detachable exterior sheets must be determined via calculation. If figures for calculation are insufficient, area of detachable exterior sheets must not be less than 0,05 m2 per 1 m3 of volume of class A rooms and not be less than 0,03 m2 per 1 m3 of volume of class B rooms. NOTE 1: If glass of 3 mm, 4 mm, or 5 mm thick is used as detachable exterior sheets, the minimum area must be 0,8 m2, 1,0 m2, and 1,5 m2 respectively. Tempered glass, double pane, triple pane, stalinite glass, and polycarbonate are not allowed for use as detachable exterior sheets. NOTE 2: Roll-type coverings of detachable exterior sheets of the roof must be grouped into sections not larger than 180 m2. NOTE 3: Calculated load of detachable exterior sheets on the roof must not exceed 0,7 kPa. A.1.3 Premise - spatial arrangement A.1.3.1 In regard to building where height from ground plane to upper edge or ledge of walls supporting the roof exceeds or equals 10 m, every 40 000 m2 of roof surface requires 1 roof access, roof surface that does not add up to 40 000 m2 also requires 1 roof access. Roof access shall be outdoor open steel stairs in case of single-storey building or stairwells in case of multistorey building. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.1.3.2 The positioning of rooms with different fire and explosion risk classes in the same building and separation thereof must comply with fire-resistance rating requirements of enclosing structures of those rooms, means of egress, exit accesses, smoke ventilation equipment, vestibules, fire protection vestibules, stairwells, ladders, and roof accesses mentioned under relevant sections of this Regulation and specialized regulations and standards. Rooms with storage and administrative occupancies are allowed in manufacturing facilities; storeys with manufacturing or administrative occupancies are allowed in storage facilities if fire separation distance under Appendix E and relevant regulations of this Regulation are fulfilled. In regard to S0 single-storey transit storage (bonded warehouses) with fire resistance category I or II, if exit corridors are enclosed by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions and maintained at positive pressure in case of fire, the length of these corridors shall be excluded from the length of means of egress. A.1.3.3 If storage is located in manufacturing facilities, the maximum area and height (number of storeys) of storage in a fire compartment must not exceed values under Appendix H. If area of supporting platform floor, multilevel supporting platform floor, and mezzanine floor exceeds 40% of floor area, floor area shall be determined in the same manner as multistorey building. A.1.3.4 If technology lines with different fire and explosion risk classes are located in the same room or building, measures must be taken to prevent the spread of fire and explosion between these technology lines. Effectiveness of these measures must be assessed in technology section of the project. If selected measures are ineffective, technology lines with different fire and explosion risk classes must be positioned in separate rooms and be physically separated in accordance with Appendix E. A.1.3.5 Basements containing C1, C2, C3 rooms must be separated into fire subcompartments no larger than 3 000 m2 each by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions. These fire subcompartments must be fitted with smoke protection in accordance with Appendix D. The upper floor of these basements must be at least type 3 fire-resistance-rated floors. These storeys must be physically separated from corridors by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions. Corridors must have minimum width of 2 m and lead directly outside or through a smokeproof stairwells. A.1.3.6 All parts of loading platforms (docks) and enclosing structures thereof that are adjacent to S0, S1 buildings with fire resistance categories I, II, III, and IV must be made of non-combustible materials. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.1.3.8 Selection of structures and materials of finish and coatings of storage facilities and storage rooms must take into account related factors in order to minimize dust. Floor surface in areas where combustible gas, dust, liquid, and other substances at an appropriate concentration which combust or explode upon contact with sparks caused by collision with the floor or static charge can form must be protected from static build up and sparks caused by collision. Storage of goods where temperature exceeds 60 oC must utilize heat-resistant floor. A.1.3.9 Storage rooms in manufacturing facilities must be isolated from rooms of other occupancies according to below regulations. Manufacturing rooms, mechanical rooms, and storage rooms (F5 fire risk category by function) with fire and explosion risk classes C1 to C3 which are positioned in houses and public buildings, unless otherwise specified, must be physically separated from other rooms and corridors by: - Type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions and at least type 2 fire-resistance-rated floors in case of buildings with fire resistance category I; or - Type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions and at least type 3 fire-resistance-rated floors in case of buildings with fire resistance categories I, II, III, IV. Storage rooms, manufacturing rooms, laboratories, and rooms with similar occupancies with fire and explosion risk classes of C1, C2, and C3 or higher are not allowed in other buildings with expected occupant load of 50 people. Manufacturing rooms, mechanical rooms, and storage rooms with fire and explosion risk class of C4 located in houses or public buildings must be physically separated from other rooms and corridors by at least type 2 fire-resistance-rated corridors. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE: High racks mean racks that are taller than 5,5 m A.1.3.10 Storage of goods with fire and explosion risk class of C on high racks must be located in S0 single-storey buildings with fire resistance categories I through IV. Racks must have horizontal platforms that are solid, made of non-combustible materials, and no more than 4 m away from one another vertically. A.1.3.11 If a storage room with the same fire and explosion risk class is physically separated by partitions due to technology or hygiene requirements, requirements applicable to the partitions must be specified in the technology presentation of the project. A.1.3.12 Window openings of storage facilities must be additionally fitted with awning windows whose area is determined in a manner that guarantees smoke ventilation in case of fire. Windows are not required in storage rooms if smoke ventilation system compliant with Appendix D has been installed. A.2 F1.2, F4.2, F4.3 buildings (with fire height from exceeding 50 m to 150 m) and multipurpose buildings A.2.1 These buildings must have minimum fire resistance category of I. A.2.2 These buildings must be physically separated into fire compartments longitudinally where height of each fire compartment must not exceed 50 m. Fire compartments must be physically separated by fire-resistance-rated walls and fire-resistance-rated floors or mechanical floors. Mechanical floors shall be physically separated by fire-resistance-rated floors with minimum fire-resistance rating of REI 90. Fire-resistance ratings of these fire-resistance-rated walls and fire-resistance-rated floors shall conform to A.2.24. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.2.3 The maximum allowable area of an above-ground storey contained in a fire compartment is: - Not larger than 3 000 m2 - for base blocks; - Not larger than 1 500 m2 - for F1.2 buildings (hotels, dorms); - Not larger than 2 000 m2 - for F1.3 buildings; - Not larger than 2 500 m2 - for remaining cases. Walls and partitions between blocks must have fire-resistance ratings not lower than values under A.2.24. A.2.4 Rooms with assembly occupancy and number of fixed seats ranging from exceeding 300 to 600 must not be located at fire height above 15 m; number of fixed seats ranging from exceeding 150 - 300 must not be located at fire height above 40 m; number of fixed seats ranging from 100 to 150 must not be located at fire height above 50 m. Public rooms located at fire height above 50 m must have no more than 100 fixed seats. A.2.5 If F3.2 and F3.6 food and drink vendors and public rooms are located at fire height above 50 m and have occupant load exceeding 50 people according to Schedule G.9 (Appendix G), travel distance from exit accesses of all rooms in the building to the nearest smokeproof stairwell must not exceed 20 m. NOTE: In regard to storeys located at fire height above 50 m without corridors enclosed by fire protection assemblies according to A.2.24, travel distance to the entrance of smokeproof stairwells must be calculated from the furthest point of rooms. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.2.6 Rooms with assembly occupancy where occupant load may exceed 500 people must be physically separated from other rooms by fire-resistance-rated walls and floors whose fire-resistance ratings comply with A.2.24. Travel distance from exit accesses of these rooms to the nearest smokeproof stairwells must not exceed 20 m. A.2.7 Rooms regularly attended by persons with disabilities must not be located at any storey above the second storey. Rooms regularly attended by wheelchair-bound persons must not be located at any storey above the first storey. If persons with disabilities attend upper storeys, additional measures must be taken to ensure that they can safely move towards exit accesses or emergency holding areas in case of fire. The additional measures must be explained via calculations on the basis of applicable standard documents. A.2.8 Storage rooms of newspaper, written materials, and combustible materials that are larger than 50 m2 must not be located at fire height above 50 m or below or adjacent to rooms with occupant load exceeding 50 people according to Schedule G.9 (Appendix G). A.2.9 Rooms with fire and explosion risk classes of A and B are not allowed in the building. A.2.10 Transformers of substations positioned in or adjacent to the building must be dry-type transformer or oil-type transformers filled with insulating oil, located on the first storey, semi-basement, the first basement, or any mechanical floor. Electrical substations must be physically separated by fire protection assemblies with fire-resistance rating compliant with A.2.24. Diesel generators are allowed as independent power source and backup power source. In this case, rooms that contain diesel generators can be located in the first basement or higher of building or detached building when the following requirements are met: - Fire-resistance ratings of load bearing walls and floors of these rooms must not be lower than REI 180; - Travel between rooms that contain diesel generators and other rooms must cross type 1 fire protection vestibules which are maintained at positive pressure in case of fire; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Analysis instruments must be installed in order to detect fuel leak and emit signals to rooms of fire stations; emergency venting must also be installed in form of mechanical ventilation; - Automatic fire extinguishing equipment must be installed in rooms where diesel generators are located; - Volume of oil containers in frame structures of each diesel generator must not exceed 1 m3; - Capacity of diesel generator and the supply, storage of fuel must guarantee operation of fire protection systems and must be determined depending on necessary activation time of the generators in case of fire. Generators running on gas are allowed in detached building as long as fire safety requirements under relevant standard documents are fulfilled. A.2.11 Elevator lobbies must be physically separated from adjacent corridors and rooms by fire-resistance-rated partitions with fire-resistance rating compliant with A.2.24. Materials of elevator cabs must be similar to those of fire service elevators. A.2.12 Fire service elevators are required in separate elevator shafts with independent elevator lobbies. Exit discharges from these elevators must not go through common lobbies. The number of fire service elevators in each fire compartment must be calculated to ensure that travel distance from these elevators to any point of storeys that they serve must not exceed 45 m. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Tile and finish materials of enclosing structural elements of cabs shall conform to A.2.25. A.2.13 Fire-resistance rating of elevator shafts and elevator machine rooms shall conform to A.2.24. A.2.14 Corridors must be separated into compartments by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions. Fire-resistance-rated doors installed on these fire-resistance-rated partitions must be fitted with door closers and have their clearance (other than bottom clearance) sealed. The length of each corridor compartment must: - Not exceed 30 m in case of residential blocks. - Not exceed 60 m in case of non-residential blocks. A.2.15 All smokeproof stairwells of building must have discharges on the first storey and roof accesses through type 1 fire-resistance-rated doors. A.2.16 Means of egress must be designed for 1,25 times the occupant load (other than rooms where performance shows take place and other rooms with regulated number of seats). A.2.17 If sections of a building or storey are simultaneously occupied by different types of occupants or serve multiple occupancies at the same time, evacuation requirements of the entire building or storey must be calculated on the basis of whichever occupancy has the strictest evacuation requirements or evacuation requirements must be determined for each building section individually. A.2.18 If a building, a storey, or a section thereof serves multiple occupancies at different time of day, the occupancy that involves the highest occupant load must serve as the basis for determining evacuation requirements. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.2.20 Refuge floors and emergency holding areas compliant with A.3.2 are required in buildings with fire height above 100 m. A.2.21 Fire lanes and fire engine parking spaces compliant with 6.2 are required. A.2.22 Maintenance rooms for on-site firefighting equipment must be equipped in accordance with applicable laws and located on the storey below each fire compartment. Storage room of first-aid firefighting equipment on the first storey must be adjacent to room where fire protection system control center is located. Storage rooms of first-aid firefighting equipment in fire compartments on upper storeys must be at most 30 m away from smokeproof stairwells or fire service elevators. A.2.23 Prevention of flame spread on the building exterior must conform to 4.32 and 4.33. A.2.24 Fire resistance requirements of buildings structures and components A.2.24.1 Fire-resistance rating of structural elements must not be lower than values under Schedule A.1. Schedule A.1 - Minimum fire-resistance rating of structural elements Name of structural elements (building components) Minimum fire-resistance rating of building with fire height of, m ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. \> 100 and ≤ 150 (1) (2) (3) 1. Load bearing pillars, load bearing walls, bracing structures, truss, parts of floor between storeys and roofs of buildings where attics are absent (girders, beams, floorboards) 1) R 150 R 180 2. Non-load bearing exterior walls E 60 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3. Floors between storeys (including attics and storeys above the basements) REI 120 REI 120 4. Parts of the roof 4.1 Tiles RE 30 RE 30 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. R 30 R 30 5. Parts of the roof serving evacuation and rescue 5.1 Tiles RE 120 RE 120 5.2 Girders, beams, purlins, frames, bracing ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. R 180 6. Staircase structures 6.1 Inner walls REI 150 REI 180 6.2 Stringers and landings R 60 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 7. Fire-resistance-rated walls and fire-resistance-rated floors REI 150 REI 180 8. Shaft structures 8.1 Elevator shafts, service duct shafts, technical ducts and trays that do not penetrate fire compartments REI 120 REI 120 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. REI 150 1) REI 180 1) 9. Non-load bearing inner walls (partitions) 9.1 Inner walls between dwelling units of hotels, offices, and similar rooms El 60 El 60 9.2 Walls separating rooms from atriums; corridors from dwelling units of hotels and offices ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. El (EIW) 60 9.3 Separating walls for emergency generators and diesel power stations REI 180 REI 180 9.4 Walls separating mercantile rooms larger than 2 000 m2 and separating assembly rooms with occupant load exceeding 500 people El 180 El 180 9.5 Walls separating flats from one another El 90 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 9.6 Walls separating flats from corridors and from other rooms El 30 El 60 9.7 Walls separating elevator lobbies El (EIW) 60 El (EIW) 60 9.8 Walls separating elevator lobbies from vestibules of fire service elevators El (EIW) 60 El (EIW) 90 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. El (EIW) 60 El (EIW) 60 9.10 Walls separating rooms of life service venues larger than 300 m2 El 60 El 60 9.11 Walls separating rooms storing newspaper, printed materials, and similar El 90 El 120 9.12 Walls separating rooms of electrical substations ... ... ... 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NOTE 1: R rating of loading bearing structural elements that are cushion of fire-resistance-rated floors must not be lower than R rating of the fire-resistance-rated floors. NOTE 2: Requirements pertaining to fire-resistance ratings of non-load bearing exterior walls are allowed in accordance with Note 5 and Note 6 under Schedule 4. A.2.24.2 Doors, hatches, and protective openings on structural elements that are required to have some fire resistance capacity in accordance with Schedule A.1 must have minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 30 (EIW 30) if the structural elements have fire-resistance rating of EI 60 (EIW 60) and minimum fire-resistance of EI 60 (EIW 60) in all other cases. A.2.24.3 Doors of elevator lobbies and doors of elevator machine rooms must be airtight doors. A.2.24.4 Service ducts where water supply and drainage pipelines made from non-combustible materials are located can be fitted with type 2 fire-resistance-rated doors and dampers (EI 30). A.2.25 Material use based on fire risk categories A.2.25.1 Roof tiling and covering materials must be non-combustible materials. If waterproof coating of the roof is made from combustible materials, the waterproof coating must be covered by non-combustible materials with minimum thickness of 50 mm. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.2.25.3 Wall, ceiling finishes, dropped ceiling decorations, and floor tiles in rooms must conform to Schedule B.9 (Appendix B). A.2.25.4 In large rooms with more than 50 seats for the audience, parts of soft chairs, curtains and blinds must not be made from ignitable materials (BC3). Seats in these rooms must not be made from materials with toxic potency higher than DT2 regardless of the number of seats. Fabric products for interior decorations must not be made from ignitable materials (BC3). A.2.26 Installation of fire alarms, firefighting equipment, and rescue equipment. A.2.26.1 Buildings must be equipped with automatic addressable fire alarm; automatic fire alarm in flats, offices, corridors, elevator lobbies, waiting lounges, common lobbies, regularly attended mechanical rooms, and similar rooms, except for rooms that are always wet in normal conditions. A.2.26.2 Buildings must be equipped with loud speaker and evacuation guidance systems. A.2.27 Water supply for firefighting A.2.27.1 Water supply system for indoor firefighting (pipelines and equipment) must be designed separately with pump stations located separately from rooms with other occupancies. A.2.27.2 Fire flow of each fire compartment must be sufficient for 4 streams where fire flow of each stream must not be lower than 2,5 L/s. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.2.27.4 2 couplings with appropriate diameter are required to connect water supply system for indoor firefighting and automatic fire extinguishing system with portable outdoor firefighting equipment. Shutoff valves and check valves are required on the building side to adjust amount of water supplied into the system. Outlets located outside of the building must be positioned in locations that are accessible for fire engines and must be marked by understandable and clear markings. A.2.27.5 The positioning of sprinklers of automatic water fire extinguishing system in rooms, corridors, means of egress, and other parts must be able to protect windows (on the outside or inside of the room), doorways of flats, offices, and other rooms whose doors open into corridors. A.2.27.6 Minimum flow intensity of automatic extinguishing systems shall be 0,08 L/(s∙m2). A.2.27.7 In case of sprinkler extinguishing system, minimum fire flow must be 10 L/s. A.2.27.8 Vestibules of smokeproof stairwells must be fitted with D 65 FDCs for use by fire brigade (of the dry pipe system). These pipelines must be fitted with inlets on the first storey in order to allow high-pressure pump of fire engines to connect. A.2.28 Electrical system A.2.28.1 Technical equipment below must remain powered for at least 3 hours after a fire breaks out and by 2 independent sources: - Fire service elevators; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Automatic fire alarm and evacuation guidance systems; - Equipment affiliated to automatic fire extinguishing and water supply systems; - Fire protection equipment serving technical equipment system; - Equipment serving rescue - evacuation. A.2.28.2 Electric cables from electrical substation and independent power sources to input distribution device in each fire compartment must be placed in separate channels (trays) with fire resistance capacity complaint with A.2.24 or must be fire resistant cables. A.2.28.3 Input distribution device of each fire compartment must be fitted with breakers and protected by fire protection measures. A.2.28.4 Distribution cabinets of storeys and electrical panels of flats require breakers. These cabinets must be able to prevent fire from spreading beyond the cabinets. A.2.28.5 The filling of annular spaces in areas where cables and wires penetrate structural elements which require fire resistance must have minimum fire-resistance rating equal to fire-resistance rating of the structural elements that are penetrated by cables and wires. A.2.28.6 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.2.28.8 Electric cables and wires from input cabinets to fire protection systems (electrical equipment of fire extinguishing system, fire alarms, smoke extraction, emergency lighting, and similar equipment) must be made from fire-resistant cables (mineral-insulated electrical wires and electrical cables or other electrical wires and cables with minimum fire-resistance rating of 120 minutes). A.2.29 Ventilation and smoke protection system A.2.29.1 Rooms with different occupancies in the same fire compartment must be served by separate heating, ventilation, air conditioning system. A.2.29.2 Rooms where ventilation equipment is located must be placed in fire compartments that they serve. Ventilation equipment of systems that serve different rooms are allowed to be placed in the same room, except for the following cases: - Equipment of air supply system that uses recirculated air and serves rooms with fire and explosion risk classes C1 through C3 must not be placed in the same space as equipment of system that serves rooms with other explosion risk classes; - Equipment of air supply system that serves dwelling units must not be placed in the same space as equipment of air supply system that serves rooms dedicated to life services and equipment of air exhaust system; - Equipment of air exhaust system (expels air with odors outside, from smoking rooms, bathrooms, and similar rooms) must not be placed in the same space as equipment of air supply system; - Equipment of localized exhaust system for explosive compounds must not be placed in the same space as equipment of other systems. A.2.29.3 Ventilation systems that serve different fire compartments must not use the same inlets. Horizontal distance between air inlets located on adjacent fire compartments must not be lower than 3 m. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.2.29.5 Air pipes and collector pipes of every system in fire compartments that they serve shall comply with the following regulations: - Be made from non-combustible materials and minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 15 as long as air pipes must be placed in a common shaft whose enclosing structures have minimum fire-resistance rating of REI 120 and fire dampers must be fitted in areas where the pipes penetrate the enclosing structure; - Be made from non-combustible materials and fitted with fire dampers in all areas where the pipes penetrate walls, partitions, and floors which are required to be fire resistant; - Air pipe segments situated outside of fire compartments that they serve, starting from fire protection assemblies on the exterior of the fire compartments, must have minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 180. A.2.29.6 If air pipes and collector pipes of all systems serving different fire compartments are placed in the same channel or shaft, enclosing structures of the channel or shaft must have minimum fire-resistance rating of REI 180 while the pipes must: - Have minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 60 if the pipes are located in fire compartments that they serve and be fitted with fire dampers where they penetrate enclosing structures of the channel and shaft; - Have minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 60 if the pipes are located outside of fire compartments that they serve and be fitted with fire dampers where they penetrate fire-resistance-rated floors on the edge of fire compartments (the floor has fire-resistance rating of REI 180). A.2.29.7 Air pipes required to be fire resistant must be made from non-combustible materials, have minimum thickness of 0,8 mm, and be fitted with apparatus for compensating for linear thermal expansion. The fitting of joints of air pipes must be done by non-combustible materials. A.2.29.8 Fire dampers must be fitted with remote control and automatic control schemes. Intumescent fire dampers are not allowed. Fire-resistance rating of fire dampers must: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Not be lower than EI 60 - if respective fire protection assemblies have fire-resistance rating of REI 60. A.2.29.9 Smoke extraction system must fulfill the following requirements: - Fire-resistance rating of ventilation fans must allow the fans to operate under calculated temperature of the airflow; - Air ducts and channels must be made from non-combustible materials with minimum fire-resistance rating of: EI 180 - for air ducts and channels located outside of fire compartments that they serve; EI 120 - for vertical air ducts and channels located in fire compartments that they serve; - Smoke dampers must be fitted with remote and automatic control schemes and have minimum fire-resistance rating of: EI 60 - for parking spaces of motor vehicles and isolated corridors of enclosed parking garages; EI 45 - for rooms with minimum occupant load of 50 people, according to Schedule G.9 (Appendix G) and for atriums; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.2.29.10 Exhaust fans for expelling combustion products must be positioned in separate rooms and enclosed by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions. A.2.29.11 Shafts enclosing pipelines of air supply system for smoke control must have minimum fire-resistance rating equal to fire-resistance rating of floors that they penetrate. The required fire-resistance rating of air pipes of air supply system must not be lower than: EI 60 - for storey-based air ducts of system that supplies air in fire protection vestibules and isolated corridors of enclosed parking garages; EI 30 - for air ducts of system that supplies air in stairwells and elevator shafts, and fire protection vestibules above the ground. A.2.29.12 Fire dampers of air supply system for smoke control must have minimum fire-resistance rating equal to the required fire-resistance rating of air ducts of this system. A.2.29.13 The control of equipment and operation of smoke protection system must be done automatically (even fire detection system) and remotely (from control tables of standby employees and buttons located along means of egress of storeys or fire hose cabinets). In all fire drill scenarios, regular ventilating and air conditioning systems (that are not fitted with smoke control mode) must be shut down while smoke extraction and air supply for smoke control systems must be engaged. A.2.29.14 Information pertaining to location and conditions of equipment and operation of smoke protection system must be monitored and distinguished at control stations. A.2.29.15 Mechanisms and working equipment of smoke protection system must have operation reliability represented by minimum safety factor of 0,999. A.2.30 Rubbish collection system ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.2.30.2 Rubbish intake doors must be placed in separate rooms which are physically separated from other spaces by fire-resistance-rated partitions with minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 120. Fire-resistance-rated doors fitted on these partitions must have minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 60, be equipped with door closers, and have their clearance sealed. A.3 F1.3 apartment buildings with fire height ranging from exceeding 75 m to 150 m A.3.1 Buildings with fire height ranging from 75 m to 100 m A.3.11. Minimum fire resistance category shall be I, fire resistance requirements of building structures and components shall conform to A.2.24, except for cases under A.3.1.10 and A.3.1.14. A.3.1.2 Buildings must be divided into fire compartments longitudinally where height of the bottommost fire compartment must not exceed 75 m and height of subsequent fire compartments must not exceed 50 m. Fire compartments must be physically separated by fire-resistance-rated floors with minimum fire-resistance-rating of REI 150 or by mechanical floors whose horizontal load bearing structures (floors and ceilings) must have minimum fire-resistance rating of REI 90. A.3.1.3 The maximum allowable area of a storey in a fire compartment shall be determined in accordance with A.2.3. A.3.1.4 Joints between fire-resistance-rated floors, fire protection assemblies and enclosing structures of buildings must be protected in order to prevent fire from spreading through fire protection assemblies. Prevention of flame spread on building exterior must conform to 4.32 and 4.33. A.3.1.5 Each fire compartment along the building height must be protected by independent fire protection systems (water supply for firefighting, smoke ventilation, emergency lighting, fire alarm, automatic fire extinguishing). Fire compartments can share fire pump stations, water supply pump stations, smoke exhaust fans, and fire alarm control units. A.3.1.6 Awnings made from non-combustible materials with minimum width of 1,0 m must be fitted above entrances to garages on the first storey in a manner that the distance from these awnings to the lower edge of upper windows must not be lower than 4,0 m. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.3.1.8 Clear width of stringers and landings of N1 and N3 stairwells in residential section of buildings must not be lower than 1,20 m; clear width of stringers and landings of N2 stairwells must not be lower than 1,05 m while clear width between stringers must not be lower than 100 mm. A.3.1.9 All smokeproof stairwells must have stringers leading to the roof via type 2 fire-resistance-rated doors. A.3.1.10 Sections serving other occupancies of the buildings (including mechanical rooms, auxiliary rooms serving residential sections) must be physically separated from residential section by solid fire-resistance-rated walls with fire-resistance rating REI 150 and type 1 fire-resistance-rated floors and fitted with separate exit accesses. A.3.1.11 Thermal insulation layer (if any) of exterior wall must be made from non-combustible materials. Thermal insulation layer made from Ch1 or Ch2 materials is allowed if it is protected from all sides by concrete or plaster with minimum thickness of 50 mm. The thickness of this concrete (plaster) layer on exterior walls where windows and doors are located must not be lower than 30 mm. A.3.1.12 Fire-resistance-rated doors must be fitted on a case-by-case basis as follows:
A.3.1.13 Finishes of ceilings, walls, and floors on means of egress, elevator lobbies, common lobbies, and mechanical floors must be made from non-combustible materials. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.3.1.15 Primary pipelines along vertical axis of technical ducts (water drainage, rainwater, hot and cold water supply) must be made of non-combustible materials or placed in technical channels or trays which are made of non-combustible materials. Requirements of rubbish collection system shall conform to A.2.30. A.3.1.16 Smoke protection of buildings, fire alarms, and automatic fire extinguishing system shall conform to additional regulations below:
A.3.1.17 Fire protection requirements for electrical cables and wires of power sources which power fire prevention and firefighting system shall conform to A.2.28. A.3.2 Buildings with fire height ranging from 100 m to 150 m ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
NOTE: A part or the entire mechanical floor can serve as fire emergency holding areas if requirements under Points b), c), d), e), f).
NOTE: The largest number of occupants evacuating from difference spaces of the buildings or building sections shall be determined in accordance with G.3, Appendix G. With respect to buildings and buildings section other than F1.3 buildings or F1.3 building sections, A.2.16 shall additionally apply.
- Total area of vent openings must be equal to or greater than 25% of area of fire emergency holding areas; - The minimum height of vent openings (from the bottom edge to the upper edge) must be 1,2 m; - Vent openings of fire emergency holding areas must be at least 1,5 m horizontally and 3,0 m vertically away from other unprotected wall openings which are orthogonally adjacent to these vent openings. If vent openings serving fire emergency holding areas are not smaller than 50% of the area of fire emergency holding areas, the vertical distance can be lowered to 1,5 m;
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NOTE: In additional to Vietnamese and English, additional languages are allowed depending on the types of occupants.
A.4 Karaoke and discotheque service venues (F2.1) A.4.1 Fire resistance category of karaoke and discotheque service venues must conform to this regulation and must not be lower than category IV. A.4.2 Storeys of karaoke and discotheque service venues must have at least 2 exit accesses. Each storey can have one exit access when all requirements below are met: - In regard to buildings with fire height not exceeding 15 m, area of the storey in question must not exceed 300 m2. In regard to buildings with fire height from exceeding 15 m to 21 m, area of the storey in question must not exceed 200 m2. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Occupant load of each storey does not exceed 20 people; - At least one additional fire exit from storeys to open balconies or to control areas on open roof or to type 3 staircases is required. NOTE: Open balcony or open rooftop means the balcony or rooftop is not enclosed and enclosing structures (if any) must facilitate evacuation and rescue for the fire brigade. A.4.3 Exit accesses from each storey of karaoke and discotheque service venues must lead into stairwells via type 2 fire-resistance-rated doors. Means of egress on each storey must be protected by fire protection assemblies with fire-resistance ratings as follows:
A.4.4 Additional eye-level exit signs are required along means of egress in accordance with TCVN 13456. A.4.5 Floor finishes, decorations (including dropped ceiling tiles if any), tiles, and coverings in karaoke and discotheque service venues must have minimum fire risk level CV1. A.4.6 Fire command centers (if any) must conform to 6.17. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A.4.8 Fire alarm sirens and lights must be positioned in corridors, common lobbies, and rooms of karaoke and discotheque service venues. Electrical system of audio and visual systems must have fail-safe connection and be automatically shut down in case of activation of automatic fire alarm system and in case of manual shut down (button for manual shut down is located in fire command centers or in receptionist and appropriate signs are erected) in case of fire. A.4.9 Karaoke and discotheque service venues must have open rooftop and elevated entry in accordance with 6.3.1 through 6.3.4 to allow fire brigade to make entry. A.4.10 Advertising panels of karaoke and discotheque service venues must conform to QCVN 17:2018/BXD. NOTE: The inspection, rectification, and assurance of fire safety in accordance with this Regulation in karaoke and discotheque service venues which are operated before the effective date hereof shall be carried out in accordance with specific instructions of competent authority. APPENDIX B (regulations) CLASSIFICATION OF CONSTRUCTION MATERIALS BASED ON FIRE-RELATED TECHNICAL CLASSIFICATIONS AND FIRE SAFETY REQUIREMENTS OF MATERIALS B.1 Classification of construction materials based on fire-related technical characteristics ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Construction materials shall be classified into: combustible materials and non-combustible materials according to combustibility test results below: Non-combustible materials are those that are accompanied by the following elements throughout the test: - Temperature increase of the oven does not exceed 50 oC; - Mass of the sample does not reduce by more than 50 %; - Duration of sustained flaming does not exceed 10 s. Combustible materials are those that are not accompanied by any of the elements above. NOTE: Test parameters shall be determined in accordance with TCVN 12695 (ISO 1182) or similar standards. EXAMPLE: Materials classified as non-combustible materials are inorganic materials such as concrete, baked clays, ceramic, metal, masonry units, plaster, and similar materials. B.1.2 Combustibility classes of materials ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Combustibility class Parameters Air temperature in exhaust pipe, T, oC Reduction to sample length, L, % Reduction to sample mass, m, % Duration of sustained flaming, s Ch1 - mildly flammable ≤ 135 ≤ 65 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0 Ch2 - moderately flammable ≤ 235 ≤ 85 ≤ 50 ≤ 30 Ch3 - flammable ≤ 450 \> 85 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. ≤ 300 Ch4 - highly flammable \> 450 \> 85 \> 50 \> 300 NOTE 1: Test parameters shall be determined in accordance with applicable national standards or equivalent standards pertaining to combustibility test for construction materials. NOTE 2: If tests are organized in accordance with TCVN 12695 (ISO 1182), materials that meet the following requirements are also classified as Ch1: - Temperature increase of the oven does not exceed 50 oC; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Duration of sustained flaming does not exceed 20 s. B.1.3 Ignitability classes of materials Schedule B.2 - Ignitability classes of materials Ignitability classes Maximum surface heat flux, kW/m2 BC1 - barely ignitable ≥ 35 BC2 - moderately ignitable ≥ 20 and < 35 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. < 20 NOTE: Maximum surface heat flux shall be determined in accordance with ISO 5657 or equivalent standards. B.1.4 Flame spread classes of materials Schedule B.3 - Flame spread classes of materials Flame spread classes Maximum surface heat flux, kW/m2 LT1 - no spread ≥ 11 LT2 - limited spread ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. LT3 - moderate spread ≥ 5 and < 8 LT4 - rapid spread < 5 NOTE: Test parameters shall be determined in accordance with ISO 5658-2, ISO 9239 or equivalent standards B.1.5 Smoke production classes of materials Schedule B.4 - Smoke production classes of materials Smoke production classes Smoke production rate, m2/kg ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. ≤ 50 SK2 - moderate smoke production \> 50 and ≤ 500 SK3 - high smoke production \> 500 NOTE: Smoke production rate of materials shall be determined in accordance with ISO 5660-2 or equivalent standards. B.1.6 Toxic potency classes of materials Schedule B.5 - Toxic potency classes of materials Toxic potency classes ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5 15 30 60 DT1 - low toxic potency \> 210 \> 150 \> 120 \> 90 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. \> 70 and ≤ 210 \> 50 and ≤ 150 \> 40 and ≤ 120 \> 30 and ≤ 90 DT3 - high toxic potency \> 25 and ≤ 70 \> 17 and ≤ 50 \> 13 and ≤ 40 \> 10 and ≤ 30 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. ≤ 25 ≤ 17 ≤ 13 ≤ 10 NOTE: Test parameters and calculation of HCL50 shall comply with ISO 13344 or equivalent standards. B.1.7 Fire risk levels Schedule B.6 - Fire risk levels of materials Fire-related technical characteristics Fire risk levels of materials ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. CV1 CV2 CV3 CV4 CV5 1. Combustibility Non-combustible Ch1 Ch1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Ch3 Ch4 2. Ignitability - BC1 BC2 BC2 BC2 BC3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - SK2 SK2 SK3 SK3 SK3 4. Toxic potency of combustion products - DT2 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. DT2 DT3 DT4 5. Flame spread - LT1 LT1 LT2 LT2 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE: List of fire risk classification of construction materials for the purpose of determining fire risk classes from CV0 to CV5 of construction materials is specified under Schedule B.7. Schedule B.7 - List of required fire risk classification depending on use of construction materials Construction materials Required fire risk classification depending on use of construction materials Combustibility classification Flame spread classification Ignitability classification Smoke production classification Toxic potency classification ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. + - + + + 2. Floorings, including carpets - + + ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. + 3. Roof tiles + + + - - 4. Anti-absorbent and air sealing materials thicker than 0,2 mm + ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. + - - 5. Thermal insulation materials + - + + + ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE 1: A “+” symbol means this classification is required NOTE 2: A “-” symbol means this classification is not required NOTE 3: If anti-absorbent materials are used as roof tiles, section 3 shall prevail. B.2 Fire safety requirements for materials Schedule B.8 - Range of application of finishes, decorations, tiles, and floorings on means of egress Fire risk category by function of buildings, constructions, and fire compartments Number of storeys and height of building Fire risk levels of materials used on walls and ceilings (including dropped ceilings if any) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Entrance halls, stairwells, elevator lobbies Common corridors, waiting halls Entrance halls, stairwells, elevator lobbies Common corridors, waiting halls F1.2; F1.3; F2.3; F2.4; F3.1; F3.2; F3.6; F4.2; F4.3; F4.4; F5.1; F5.2, F5.3 ≤ 9 storeys or ≤ 28 m CV2 CV3 CV3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. \> 9 storeys and ≤ 17 storeys; or > 28 m and ≤ 50 m CV1 CV2 CV2 CV3 17 storeys or ≤ 50 m CV0 CV1 CV1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. F1.1; F2.1; F2.2; F3.3; F3.4; F3.5; F4.1 Regardless of number of storeys or height CV0 CV1 CV1 CV2 Schedule B.9 - Range of application of finishes, decorations, tiles, and floorings in common rooms, other than sports grounds and floors of dancing rooms Fire risk category by function of buildings Room occupant load, people ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. used on walls and ceilings (including dropped ceilings if any) used as floorings F1.2; F2.3; F2.4; F31; F3.2; F3.6; F4.2; F4.3; F4.4; F5.1 \> 800 CV0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. \> 300 and ≤ 800 CV1 CV2 \> 50 and ≤ 300 CV2 CV3 ≤ 50 CV3 CV4 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. F2.1; F2.2; F3.3; F3.4; F3.5; F4.1 \> 300 CV0 CV2 \> 15 and ≤ 300 CV1 CV2 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. CV3 CV4 APPENDIX C (regulations) FIRE AND EXPLOSION RISK CLASSES OF BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND ROOMS WITH MANUFACTURING AND STORAGE OCCUPANCIES C.1 Fire and explosion risk classes of rooms Schedule C.1 - Fire and explosion risk classes of room Fire and explosion risk class of room ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A High fire and explosion risk - Combustible gas, ignitable liquid whose flashpoint is 28 oC or lower, in sufficient amount to create explosive gas - vapour mixture, which upon combustion will create a gauge pressure of more than 5 kPa in the room. - Substances and materials that explode or combust upon contact with water, oxygen or one another, in sufficient amount to create an explosion whose gauge pressure in the room exceeds 5 kPa. B Fire and explosion risk Combustible dust or fabric materials, ignitable liquid, with flashpoint exceeding 28 oC, combustible liquid, in sufficient amount to create explosive gas - dust or gas - vapour, which when ignited will create a gauge pressure of exceeding 5 kPa in the room. C1 through C4 Fire risk ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - These rooms are then further classified into classes C1 through C4 depending on fire loads of substances contained therein: C1 - Fire load exceeds 2 200 MJ/m2; C2 - Fire load ranges from 1 401 MJ/m2 to 2 200 MJ/m2; C3 - Fire load ranges from 181 MJ/m2 to 1 400 MJ/m2; C4 - Fire load ranges from 1 MJ/m2 to 180 MJ/m2. D Moderate fire risk Non-combustible substances and materials in hot, incandescent, or molten state where work process is accompanied by heat radiation, sparks, and flame; combustible solid, liquid, and gases used as fuel. E ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Non-combustible substances and materials in a cold state. C.2 Fire and explosion risk classes of buildings and constructions C.2.1 Class A C.2.1.1 Buildings and constructions shall be placed in class A if area of all class A rooms in these buildings and constructions exceed 5% of total area of rooms in the buildings or constructions and exceed 200 m2. C.2.1.2 Buildings and constructions shall not be placed in class A if area of all class A rooms in these buildings and constructions does not exceed 25% of total area of rooms of the buildings and constructions (without exceeding 1 000 m2) and all class A rooms are equipped with automatic extinguishing system. C.2.2 Class B C.2.2.1 Buildings and constructions shall be placed in class B if requirements below are simultaneously met: - The buildings and constructions are not placed in class A; - Area of all class A and B rooms exceeds 5% of total area of rooms in the buildings and constructions or exceed 200 m2. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. C.2.3 Class C C.2.3.1 Buildings and constructions shall be placed in class C if requirements below are simultaneously met: The buildings and constructions are not placed in class A or class B; Area of all class A, class B, class C1, class C2, and class C3 rooms exceeds 5 % (or 10 % if there are no class A and class B rooms in these buildings and constructions) of total area of rooms of the buildings and constructions. C.2.3.2 Buildings and constructions shall not be placed in class C if area of all class A, class B, class C1, class C2, and class C3 rooms in these buildings and constructions does not exceed 25% of total area of rooms of the buildings and constructions (without exceeding 3 500 m2) and all of these rooms are equipped with automatic extinguishing system. C.2.4 Class D C.2.4.1 Buildings and constructions shall be placed in class D if requirements below are simultaneously met: - The buildings and constructions are not placed under class A, class B, or class C; - Area of all class A, class B, class C1, class C2, class C3, and class D rooms does exceeds 5% total area of rooms in the buildings and constructions. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. C.2.5 Class E Buildings and constructions shall be placed in class E if they are not placed in class A, class B, class C, or class D. C.3 Methods for identifying classification criteria C.3.1 Methods for identifying classification criteria for fire and explosion risk classes of buildings, constructions, and rooms are prescribed in standards. C.3.2 Several buildings and rooms associated to factories, warehouses, and production units are classified as follows: C.3.2.1 Class A - Factories where potassium and sodium are produced and/or used; - Factories where synthetic fibers and synthetic rubber are made; - Factories where gasoline and oil are produced; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Factories where synthetic liquid fuel is produced, organic water-soluble liquid whose flashpoint is 28 oC or lower is retrieved and distilled; - Storage of flammable gas container and gasoline; Storage rooms of alkaline and lead-acid batteries of power plants; Pump stations of liquid with flashpoint of 28 oC or lower. C.3.2.2 Class B - Factories where coal dust and sawdust are produced and transported, washing stations of barrels of mazut oil and other liquid whose flashpoint ranges from 28 oC to 61 oC; - Stations for milling and grinding solid matters, factories where synthetic rubber is produced, factories where sugar is produced, mazut oil storage of power plants, pump stations of liquid whose flashpoint ranges from 28 oC to 61 oC. C.3.2.3 Class C - Wood cutting stations, stations where wooden handicrafts are produced; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Paper mills with dry pulping process; - Factories for preparing cotton, fute, and other fabrics. - Filtering and drying stations in seed milling factories and storage; - Factories where oil and grease regeneration, asphalt distillation take place, storage of combustible materials and oil and grease; - Electrical distribution equipment with circuit breaker and electrical equipment with more than 60 kg of grease and oil per equipment unit; - Conveyor belts for transporting fossil coal, peat; - Enclosed storage of coal, assorted commodities, pump stations of liquid with flashpoint above 61 oC. C.3.2.4 Class D - Metal casting and metallurgy factories, forging and welding factories; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Metal hot-rolling, hot-working factories; - Building sections where internal combustion engines are located; - High-voltage laboratories; - Main buildings of power plants (furnace rooms, turbine rooms, and similar); - Boiler stations. C.3.2.5 Class E - Metal cold-working factories (except for magnesium alloys); - Ore yard; - Caustic soda manufacturing factories (except for furnace sections); ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Acid regeneration factories; - Electric vehicle and electric locomotive repair stations; - Factories for crushing, shaping, and cold-rolling asbestos minerals, salt, and other non-combustible ingredients; - Factories associated with textile and papermaking industry with wet pulping process; - Factories where food, fish, meat, dairy processing takes place; - Electrical control stations; - Water purification plants (sedimentation, filtration, bleaching, and constructions with similar occupancies); - Water pump and suction stations of power plants; - Components containing carbonic acid and chloride, cooling towers, pump stations of non-combustible liquid. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. APPENDIX D (regulations) SMOKE PROTECTION D.1 General requirements D.1.1 Smoke protection for buildings and constructions serve to prevent and/or minimize the passage of smoke and combustion products (hereinafter collectively referred to as “smoke”) in the building in order to: - Ensure safety for people evacuating and protect property in case of fire; - Create all necessary conditions to allow fire brigade to rescue people, discover and zone fire in the building. D.1.2 Smoke protection solutions for buildings and construction include: - Compartmentalization and isolation of smoke into smoke compartments; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Smoke ventilation: including natural or mechanical smoke extraction and air supply system for smoke control; - Creation of positive pressure in areas where protection from smoke is required. The aforementioned solutions can be adopted one at a time or multiple at the same time as long as the base of smoke layer must not be lower than 2 m above the highest floor surface on which people can walk on in rooms or corridors protected by smoke protection solutions. D.1.3 Equipment associated to smoke extraction system and air supply system for smoke control, regardless of operating mechanism (either natural or mechanical), must be activated automatically (by activation of automatic fire alarm or automatic extinguishing equipment) and remotely (from guard stations of the building, or fire command centers or buttons located along means of egress or in fire alarm control panels. These buttons must be positioned in a way that allows easy activation by humans). Equipment associated with smoke protection system (including pipelines) must be installed in accordance with manufacturers’ regulations, inspected and maintained appropriately on a regular basis. Auxiliary attachments serving installation or hanging of equipment must be able to maintain operation of the equipment in accordance with manufacturers’ regulations throughout operation. D.1.4 When smoke extraction system is activated in case of fire, general ventilating, air conditioning systems and ventilating, air conditioning systems serving technology requirements (if any) of the building (except for systems that ensure safety of technology) must be shut down; all normally open fire dampers must also be closed. All ventilating, air conditioning systems can be shut down on a local or full scale depending on specific design as long as smoke and flame cannot spread via general ventilating, air conditioning systems. D.1.5 Smoke ventilation system must be independent for each fire compartment, except: - Air supply systems that create positive pressure to protect stairwells and elevator shafts connecting different fire compartments; - Smoke extraction systems protecting atriums and atrium corridors that are not physically separated into fire compartments. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Smoke protection system cannot be shared between rooms with different fire risk categories by functions. D.1.7 Requirements under Appendix D can be changed on the basis of technical evaluation pertaining to smoke protection systems appropriate to applied standards. D.1.8 In regard to rooms with special occupancies or specific technology requirements (such as cleanrooms, cold storage), smoke protection can comply with applied standard documents. In all cases, safety for occupants’ evacuation and fire brigade’s access must be guaranteed. NOTE: The definition and classification of cleanrooms shall conform to ISO 14644 or equivalent standards. D.2 Smoke extraction must be done from the following areas:
- Class A, class B, class C manufacturing facilities and warehouses; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Multipurpose buildings;
- Rooms that are 50 m2 in area or larger, regularly or irregularly used for assembly occupancy (more than 1 person per 1 m2 of floor area, not including space occupied by equipment and furniture); - Mercantile and display sections; - Reading and book storage rooms of libraries, exhibits, museums that are 50 m2 in area or larger, regularly attended, or where combustible substances and materials are stored or used; - Changing rooms, locker rooms that are 200 m2 in area or larger; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Smoke can be extracted to adjacent corridors from rooms that are up to 200 m2 in area with fire risk class C1, C2, or C3 or where combustible substances and materials are stored or used. In regard to mercantile rooms and offices that are not larger than 800 m2, if travel distance from the furthest point of the rooms to the nearest exit accesses does not exceed 25 m, smoke can be extracted to adjacent areas that are corridors, lobbies, atriums and atrium corridors. Dead-end corridors must not be physically separated by partitions with doors into segments shorter than 15 m in length. NOTE 1: Areas that lack natural ventilation in case of fire are those that lack openings on exterior structures (exterior walls) or have openings without sufficient area to extract combustion products. NOTE 2: In order to facilitate natural ventilation in case of fire in corridors, open windows or openings must be located on exterior walls in a manner that meets the following requirements: - The upper edge of the openings must not be lower than 2,5 m from floor surface; the lower edge of the openings must not be higher than 1,5 m from floor surface; - Total clear width of openings must not be lower than 1,6 m for every 30 m in length of the corridors; - Openings must be opened by one hand with ease when the person is standing on the floor. NOTE 3: In order to facilitate natural ventilation in case of fire for rooms, 6 windows or openings compliant with NOTE 2 are required with a minimum width of 0,24 m for every 1 m of exterior wall length. If exterior wall only adjoins the room on one side, the distance from this exterior wall to the inner wall must not exceed 20 m. If openings are located on 2 opposing exterior structures, the distance between these structures must not be greater than 40 m and in this case, length of exterior wall must not be greater than 1/3 of total length of inner separating walls. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
D.4 Smoke extraction rate must be determined via calculation for:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Smoke extraction systems can be shared between corridors of rooms under f) of D.3 and corridors of rooms on upper storeys if all these rooms are contained within a fire compartment. D.6 Smoke inlets of smoke ducts for the purpose of extracting smoke from corridors must be positioned below the ceiling of corridors and not lower than head jamb (upper edge of doorways) of exit accesses. Smoke inlets are allowed on branching pipes leading to smoke ducts. A smoke inlet is required for: - Up to 45 m in length of straight corridor; - Up to 30 m in length of turning corridors; - Up to 20 m in length of loop corridors. Corridor length shall equal total length of adjacent corridor segments that resemble a rectangular or are close to a rectangular. D.7 When extracting smoke from rooms larger than 3 000 m2, the rooms must be separated (either by enclosure (using smoke barriers) or presumption) into smoke compartments no larger than 3 000 m2 and the possibility of fire in any of the compartments must be taken into account. Each smoke inlet only serves an area up to 1 000 m2. If rooms are physically separated into smoke compartments by smoke barriers (smoke partitions), it is permissible to activate only the smoke extraction system where the fire is located. If the separation of rooms into smoke compartments relies on presumption, respective calculation basis is required and all smoke extraction systems in all smoke compartments must be designed to activate simultaneously. NOTE: Smoke partitions are remotely and automatically operated rollers or a fixed structure made from smoke protected materials with minimum combustibility of Ch1 on top of non-combustible surface (mesh, fabric, and other forms) and fastened to the ceiling or openings on the wall. In their deployed state, the lower edge of the partitions must not be higher than the base of the smoke layer; the partitions must be able to stop the passage of smoke and separate the rooms into smoke compartments. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE 1: Mechanical smoke extraction system means a smoke extraction system where extraction force is created and sustained by fans. NOTE 2: Natural smoke ventilation system means a smoke extraction system where smoke extracts via openings on exterior structures of the building in accordance with scientific laws. Mechanical smoke extraction systems are required in multistorey buildings. Natural smoke ventilation systems are allowed on the topmost storey of multistorey buildings where smoke is extracted via smoke dampers, smoke outlets, open skylights, and open hatches which do not allow air intake. In regard to single-storey buildings and the topmost storey of multistorey buildings, natural ventilation is allowed in case of fire instead of smoke extraction system if requirements below are met: - Smoke extraction is calculated in accordance with applied standards where the least favorable conditions pertaining to smoke extraction must be taken into account (outdoor temperature, outdoor wind speed, location of the fire, location, how open the openings are, and other factors). For the purpose of calculation, the base of the smoke layer must not be less than 2 m above the highest traversable floor surface in the corridor or room in question. - Windows and skylights included in smoke extraction calculation must remain open at all time or be able to open automatically in case of fire and must allow remote control by humans. Clear dimension of these windows and skylights in open conditions must fit calculation. D.9 Smoke extraction system must meet the following requirements:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - EI 60 - for pipes and smoke ducts situated within fire compartment that they protect and extracting smoke from enclosed parking garages; - EI 45 - for vertical pipes and smoke ducts within fire compartment that they protect and extracting smoke in the area; - EI 30 - for other cases within fire compartment that they serve. NOTE 1: Fire-resistance rating is not required for pipes contained in trays or mechanical shafts which are enclosed by fire protection assemblies with equal fire-resistance rating as per the law NOTE 2: Normally open fire dampers are those that will close in case of fire
EI 60 - for enclosed parking garages; EI 45 - for smoke extraction from protected rooms; EI 30 - for corridors and lobbies when dampers are fitted on branching pipes of smoke inlet shafts; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
- Through the roof: maintain at least 5 m of clearance from discharge locations to inlets of air supply system for smoke control. Height of smoke discharge pipes must be at least 2 m if the roof is made from non-combustible materials. This height can be lowered if roof section within a 2 m radius of smoke discharge location is protected by non-combustible materials or if smoke exhaust fans are installed; - Through smoke flaps, taking into account outdoor wind speed; - Through clear opening and discharge shafts located on the exterior wall where no doorways are installed or at least 5 m away from any doorway vertically and horizontally and more than 2 m away from ground surface. Clear distance to doorways can be reduced if smoke exhaust velocity is not lower than 20 m/s; - Through stand-alone smoke exhaust shafts located on ground level and at least 15 m away from an exterior wall with windows (this minimum clearance can be ignored if windows on exterior wall are smoke-proof windows, windows that are always closed or automatically closed in case of fire), or from inlets of ventilation system of adjacent buildings or air supply system for smoke control of the building in question. This requirement can be substituted by other smoke exhaust solutions as per permissible standard documents. Smoke extraction via smoke inlet pipes from basements and semi-basements is allowed through ventilated compartments. In this case, smoke outlets must be at least 6 m above the floor of ventilated compartments in the first basement (at least 3 m vertically and 1 m horizontally away from structure of a building) or, for wet-type extractors, at least 3 m above the floor. Smoke dampers are not allowed on these pipes. Smoke exhaust fans must be positioned in separate rooms whose enclosing structures have minimum fire-resistance rating equal to the required fire-resistance rating of smoke ducts penetrating these enclosing structures, or positioned in rooms which they protect. Smoke exhaust fans can be placed on the roof or on the building exterior and protected by enclosing structures to prevent unauthorized access. Smoke exhaust fans are allowed on exterior walls if requirements under d) section of D.9 are met. D.10 In case of fire, air supply system for smoke control must supply outside air to the following areas: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
NOTE: Lower sections of rooms or corridors are sections that are situated below the smoke layer in case of fire and protected by smoke extraction system and air supply system for smoke control. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
Air supply for the purpose of maintaining positive pressure is allowed in common corridors of rooms from which smoke is extracted and in corridors connected to recreational areas, waiting lounges, other corridors, corridors, and atriums protected by smoke extraction system. In fire protection vestibules (elevator lobbies) on exits from elevators to basements of the building, air supply from elevator shafts via normally closed fire dampers is prohibited if home landings of these elevators are on the first storey of the building and elevator shafts are protected by air supply system for smoke control where provided air does not extend lower than the home landings. When situating control areas in elevator lobbies, air supply into these lobbies is prohibited if air is provided through normally closed fire dampers from adjacent elevator shafts. D.11 Supply rate of air supply system for smoke control must be calculated so as to maintain gauge pressure between 20 Pa to 50 Pa in the following areas:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - On the storey with fire: When doors leading from corridors and lobbies to means of egress lead to stairwells are all open, or when doors leading directly from rooms to stairwells are all open; - Discharge doors are open while other doors leading from corridors and lobbies on all other storeys are closed;
Rate of air supplied into fire protection vestibules leading to N2 or N3 stairwells, type 2 stairwells, atriums from basements and semi-basements, and before elevator lobbies of underground parking garages must be calculated so as to maintain a minimum wind velocity of 1,3 m/s passing through open doorway taking into account simultaneous operation of smoke extraction system. Value of positive pressure shall be determined by comparing with pressure of adjacent rooms. D.12 When calculating parameters of air supply system for smoke control, the following requirements must be complied with:
- N2 stairwells; - Fire protection vestibules leading into N2 or N3 stairwells from all storeys; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Fire protection vestibules separating motor vehicle parking spaces from ramps of underground parking garages; - Elevator lobbies in basements and semi-basements; - Common corridors of rooms from which smoke is extracted directly; - Rooms in control areas (if any); - Elevator shafts.
D.13 Air supply system for smoke control must meet the requirements below: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Rooms where no other fans are installed, have fire-resistance rating of enclosing structures not lower than the required fire-resistance rating of structures intersecting the pipelines; - Within a fire compartment: Rooms where air supply system of general ventilation system is installed if design standard requirements are met or directly in stairwells, corridors, and fire protection vestibules; - On the roof and building exterior, accompanied by enclosing structures to prevent unauthorized access.
- EI 120 - for air collector wells and air supply ducts outside of protected fire compartment; - EI 120 - for ducts of air supply system protecting vestibules of fire service elevator shafts; - EI 60 - for ducts supplying air into fire protection vestibules leading into N2 or N3 stairwells from all storeys, and into spaces of enclosed parking garages; - EI 30 - for air collector wells and air supply ducts outside of protected fire compartment. NOTE 1: Fire-resistance rating is not required for pipes contained in trays or mechanical shafts which are enclosed by fire protection assemblies with equal fire-resistance rating as per the law ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
- EI 120 - for systems mentioned under b) of D.10; - EI 60 - for systems under d), e), h), j), k), and l) of D.10; - EI 30 - for systems under f), g), and i) of D.10, as well as m) of D.10 taking into account b) of D.10. NOTE: Fire-resistance rating is not required for normally closed fire dampers in air supply pipelines in technical ducts or shafts enclosed by fire protection assemblies with matching fire-resistance rating as per the law.
D.14 Requirements for premise - spatial arrangement and structural solutions D.14.1 Enclosing structures of rooms where general ventilation equipment is located which is contained in fire compartment protected by the ventilation equipment must not be lower than EI 45. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Doors leading to rooms above must be type 2 fire-resistance-rated doors (other rooms where class E general ventilation equipment is located). D.14.2 Enclosing structures of rooms where general ventilation equipment and smoke ventilation equipment are located which are outside of fire compartment protected by these equipment must have minimum fire-resistance rating of EI 150. Doors leading to rooms above must be type 1 fire-resistance-rated doors. D.14.3 Elevator doors in buildings that are not protected by smoke extraction system are not allowed to be opened in advance on any storey. D.14.4 Exits from elevators to underground parking garages must be accompanied by fire protection vestibules protected by air supply system for smoke control. D.14.5 In order to make up for the smoke volume extracted by smoke extraction system, a natural or mechanical air supply system is required.
APPENDIX E ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. FIRE SEPARATION DISTANCE E.1 Fire separation distance between houses, buildings, and public structures, and from houses, buildings, and public structures to buildings, manufacturing facilities, and storage facilities Minimum fire separation distance between houses, buildings, and public structures (including office buildings and service buildings) shall conform to Schedule E.1. Minimum fire separation distance from houses, buildings, and public structures mentioned above to buildings, manufacturing facilities, and storage facilities shall conform to Schedule E.1. If separation distance between buildings and structures must be enforced for the purpose of firefighting and rescue, separation distance between 2 constructions must meet respective requirements in addition to those under this Appendix pertaining to fire separation distance. NOTE: Fire separation distance applicable to parking garages shall be similar to that applicable to warehouses; fire separation distance applicable to administrative - auxiliary buildings in industrial facilities shall be similar to that applicable to public structures Schedule E.1 - Fire separation distance between houses, buildings, and public structures, and from houses, buildings, and public structures to buildings, manufacturing facilities, and storage facilities Fire resistance category of the first building Fire risk level of structures of the first building ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. I, II, III S0 II, III S1 IV S0, S1 IV, V S2, S3 1. Houses and public structures ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 6 8 8 10 II, III S1 8 10 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 12 IV S0, S1 8 10 10 12 IV, V S2, S3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 12 12 15 2. Manufacturing facilities and storage facilities I, II, III S0 10 12 12 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. II, III S1 12 12 12 12 IV S0, S1 12 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 12 15 IV, V S2, S3 15 15 15 18 NOTE 1: Distance between buildings and constructions shall be the clearance between exterior walls or enclosing structures thereof. In case structures and structural elements of buildings and constructions are made from combustible materials and protrude by more than 1 m, separation distance shall be the clearance between these protruding structures and structural elements. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE 3: Fire separation distance under this schedule of two-storey buildings with prefabricated frame-sheet structures and fire resistance category V and buildings tiled with combustible materials must be increased by 20%. NOTE 4: Fire separation distance between any 2 houses, buildings, and public structures is not required if the taller than larger wall between these 2 houses, buildings, and public structures or both opposing walls of these houses, buildings, and public structures are type 1 fire-resistance-rated walls. NOTE 5: Fire separation distance between houses and from houses to other civil structures is not required if total construction area (including land area that is not built on between them) does not exceed the largest permissible floor area in a fire compartment with the lowest fire resistance category and fire risk level of structures (see Appendix H) NOTE 6: Fire separation distance between houses and public structures is not required if total construction area (including land area that is not built on between them) does not exceed the largest permissible floor area in a fire compartment (see Appendix H). This note does not apply to buildings and constructions placed under fire risk categories F.1 and F4.1, retailers of combustible gas, combustible liquid, ignitable liquid, materials and substances that explode or combust upon contact with water or oxygen or one another. NOTE 7: Fire separation distance under this schedule can be reduced by 50% for buildings and constructions that have fire resistance categories of I and II, fire risk level of structure of S0, and are all equipped with automatic fire extinguishing system. E.2 Fire separation distance between manufacturing facilities and storage facilities Fire separation distance between buildings in an industrial facility, depending on fire resistance categories and fire risk levels of structures and fire and explosion risk classes, must not be lower than values under Schedule E.2. Schedule E.2 - Fire separation distance between buildings in an industrial facility ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Distance between buildings, m Fire resistance category of I and II. Fire resistance category of III and IV and fire risk level of S0 Fire resistance category of III and fire risk level of S1 Fire resistance category of III and fire risk level of S2, S3. Fire resistance category of IV and fire risk level of S1, S2, and S3. Fire resistance category of V 1. Fire resistance category of I and II. Fire resistance category of III and IV and fire risk level of S0 Class D and Class E buildings: not required 9 12 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2. Fire resistance category of III and fire risk level of S1 9 12 15 3. Fire resistance category of III and fire risk level of S2, S3. Fire resistance category of IV and fire risk level of S1, S2, and S3. Fire resistance category of V 12 15 18 NOTE 1: Minimum distance between buildings shall be the clearance between exterior walls or exterior structures thereof. If structures or structural elements of buildings and constructions are made from combustible materials and protrude by more than 1 m, fire separation distance shall be the clearance between these protruding structures and structural elements. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
Separation distance between buildings must meet requirements for firefighting and rescue. NOTE 3: Separation distance in this Schedule applicable to buildings with fire resistance category of I, II, III and IV with fire risk level of S0 and class A, class B, class C can be reduced to 6 m from 9 m if these buildings are equipped with automatic fire extinguishing system. E.3 Area of openings not protected by fire protection measures on exterior wall and corresponding fire-resistance rating of exterior wall sections where fire protection measures are required E.3.1 Fire separation distance by boundaries specified under this part serves to determine area of exterior wall that is not protected by fire protection measures and fire-resistance rating of exterior walls. E.3.2 Fire separation distance by boundaries shall be the width of the open space which is measured diagonally from exterior wall of the building to boundary of adjacent plot, or to median of connecting roads, or to a reference line between exterior walls of adjacent buildings in the same plot. The reference line shall be identified as follows: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - If both buildings are newly built, the reference line depends on exterior area not protected by fire protection measures and fire-resistance rating of exterior walls of both buildings. - If exterior of the building is uneven, the safest calculations shall prevail. NOTE: Sections of exterior walls that are not protected by fire protection measures are usually:
E.3.3 The ratio of the total largest area of openings not protected by fire protection measures to total area of wall surface facing the boundaries shall be determined in accordance with E.4a and E.4b. Fire-resistance rating of wall sections protected by fire protection measures is prescribed under Schedule E.3. NOTE: In all cases, requirements for flame spread prevention must be met. Schedule E.3 - Fire-resistance rating of exterior wall depending on fire separation distance by boundaries ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Fire separation distance by boundary, m Area of openings not protected by fire protection measures ≥ 0 and ≤ 1,5 \> 1,5 and ≤ 3 \> 3 and ≤ 9 \> 9 1. F3.1, F3.2; F2.1 karaoke venues, discotheques; F5 buildings of class C E 120 E 60 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0 See Schedule E.4a 2. F5 buildings of class A, class B E 180 E 120 E 60 0 See Schedule E.4a 3. Others ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. E 60 0 0 See Schedule E.4b Schedule E.4a - Ratio of the total largest area of openings not protected by fire protection measures to total area of wall surface facing the boundaries, % (applicable to buildings of sections 1, 2 Schedule E.3) Fire separation distance by boundary, m Total area of exterior wall, m2 9 14 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 23 28 37 47 56 65 74 84 93 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 186 233 326 465 930 ≥ 1860 0,0 0 0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0,9 0 0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0 0 0 0 0 0 1,2 4 4 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 4 4 4 4 4 4 1,5 6 5 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5 5 4 4 4 4 4 4 4 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 4 4 4 4 4 4 1,8 9 7 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 6 6 5 5 5 5 4 4 4 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 4 4 4 4 4 4 2,1 12 10 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 8 7 6 6 5 5 5 5 5 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 4 4 4 4 4 4 2,4 17 13 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 9 9 7 7 6 6 6 5 5 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 4 4 4 4 4 4 2,7 21 16 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 12 10 9 8 7 7 7 6 6 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5 5 4 4 4 4 3,0 27 20 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 14 12 11 9 8 8 7 7 7 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5 5 5 4 4 4 4,6 69 48 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 31 27 21 18 16 14 13 12 12 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 8 7 6 6 5 4 6,1 100 91 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 57 48 38 31 27 24 22 20 18 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 12 10 9 7 6 5 7,6 100 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 91 77 59 48 41 36 32 29 27 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 16 14 11 9 7 5 9,0 100 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 86 59 56 52 46 42 38 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 22 18 15 12 8 6 \> 9,0 100 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 100 100 100 100 Schedule E.4b - Ratio of the total largest area of openings not protected by fire protection measures to total area of wall surface facing the boundaries, % (applicable to buildings of section 3 Schedule E.3) Fire separation distance by boundary, m ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 9 14 19 23 28 37 47 56 65 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 84 93 140 186 233 326 465 930 ≥ 1860 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 9 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 12 11 10 9 9 9 8 8 8 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 8 8 7 7 7 7 7 7 7 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 18 15 13 12 11 10 10 9 9 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 9 8 8 8 8 7 7 7 7 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 25 20 17 15 14 12 11 11 10 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 10 9 9 8 8 8 8 7 7 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 33 2.5 21 19 17 15 14 13 12 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 11 11 10 9 9 8 8 7 7 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 43 32 27 23 21 18 16 15 14 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 12 12 11 10 9 9 8 8 7 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 55 40 33 28 25 21 19 17 16 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 14 13 12 11 10 9 9 8 7 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. APPENDIX F (regulations) NOMINAL FIRE-RESISTANCE RATINGS OF SOME STRUCTURAL ELEMENTS F.1 Wall structural elements Schedule F.1 - Masonry wall or concrete wall Structures and materials Minimum thickness excluding the plaster, mm, to maintain fire-resistance rating For load bearing structural elements ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. REI REI REI REI REI REI El El El ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. El El 240 180 120 90 60 30 240 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 120 90 60 30 (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. (7) (8) (9) (10) (11) (12) (13) 1. Reinforced concrete wall with concrete cover protecting the primary load bearing reinforcement of 25 mm: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
- - - - - - - - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - -
180 - 100 100 75 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - - - - - 2. Lightweight concrete wall with Group 23) aggregate: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - - - - - 150 150 150 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 150 150 3. Terracotta walls, concrete masonry walls: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
200 200 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 170 170 100 100 75 75
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 200 100 100 100 100 170 170 100 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 75 4. Concrete masonry wall with Group 1 1) aggregate: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
150 - 100 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 150 - 75 75 75 50
150 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 100 100 100 - 75 75 75 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5. Concrete masonry wall with Group 2 2) aggregate: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
- - 100 100 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 150 - 100 100 75 50
- - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 100 150 - 100 100 75 50 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 180 140 100 100 100 100 100 - 62 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 50 7. Hollow concrete masonry wall with the void running along the thickness of the wall and Group 1 1) aggregate: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
- - 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 150 - 100 100 75 75
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - 100 100 100 100 150 - 100 75 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 75 8. Hollow concrete masonry wall with the void running along the thickness of the wall and Group 2 2) aggregate ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
- - - - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - 150 - 150 125 125 125
- ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - - - 150 - 150 125 125 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 9. Hollow clay brick with less than 50% of void areas: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Plastered with sand and cement mix to 12,5 mm of thickness - - - - - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - - - 100 75 10. Cavity wall, outer wall made from terracotta bricks or blocks, concrete with at least 100 mm of thickness and: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 100 100 100 100 75 - 75 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 75 75
100 100 100 100 100 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - 75 75 75 75 11. Cavity wall with outer wall made from hollow clay bricks with less than 50% of void areas as stated under section 9 and inner wall made from aerated concrete blocks with mass per unit volume ranging from 480 kg/m3 to 1 200 kg/m3: 150 140 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 100 75 75 75 75 75 75
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE 1: Rules for determining fire-resistance ratings shall conform to part 2. NOTE 2: Fire-resistance ratings in the schedule only apply to statically determinate structures. Fire-resistance ratings of statically indeterminate structures shall be calculated in accordance with selected and applied standards. NOTE 3: Parameters of cross-section of components must be taken into account simultaneously. Schedule F.2 - Non-load bearing exterior wall Structures and materials Fire-resistance rating 1. Framing steel walls whose outer layers are made of non-combustible sheets and inner layers are: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. El 240
El 30
El 30
El 30 2. Wood stud wall framing whose outer layers are sand and cement mix or cement - lime 1) of 10 mm of thickness and inner layers are: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. El 60
El 60
El 60
50 mm El 180 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. El 240 75 mm El 240 100 mm El 240 3. Wood stud wall framing whose outer layers are brick or clay block or concrete masonry block of 100 mm of thickness and inner layers are plastered with gypsum to 16 mm of thickness on top of steel mesh El 240 4. Wood stud wall framing whose outer layers are clapboards or plywood boards of 9,5 mm of thickness 1) and inner layers are: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. El 30
El 30
El 30
50 mm El 180 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. El 240 75 mm El 240 100 mm El 240
NOTE: Rules for determining fire-resistance ratings shall conform to part 2. F.2 Reinforced concrete girders ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Properties Minimum value, mm, in order to maintain fire-resistance rating R 240 R 180 R 120 R 90 R 60 R 30 1. Silica-based aggregate concrete: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
651) 551) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 35 25 15
280 240 180 140 110 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2. Silica-based aggregate concrete plastered with cement or gypsum to 15 mm of thickness on top of steel mesh:
501) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 30 20 15 15
250 210 170 110 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 70 3. Silica-based aggregate concrete plastered with vermiculite/gypsum 2) to 15 mm of thickness:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15 15 15 15 15
170 145 125 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 60 60 4. Lightweight aggregate concrete: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 45 35 30 20 15
250 200 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 130 100 80
NOTE 1: Rules for determining fire-resistance ratings shall conform to part 2. NOTE 2: Fire-resistance ratings in the schedule only apply to statically determinate structures. Fire-resistance ratings of statically indeterminate structures shall be calculated in accordance with selected and applied standards. NOTE 3: Parameters of cross-section of components must be taken into account simultaneously. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Schedule F.4 - Prestressed reinforced concrete girders Properties Minimum value, mm, in order to maintain fire-resistance rating R 240 R 180 R 120 R 90 R 60 R 30 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
1001) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 651) 501) 40 25
280 240 180 140 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 80 2. Silica-based aggregate concrete plastered with gypsum to 15 mm of thickness on top of steel mesh:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 75 50 40 30 15
250 210 170 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 85 70 3. Silica-based aggregate concrete plastered with vermiculite/gypsum2) to 15 mm of thickness: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 751) 60 45 30 25 15
170 145 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 85 60 60 4. Silica-based aggregate concrete plastered with vermiculite/gypsum 2) to 25 mm of thickness: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
50 45 30 25 15 15
140 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 85 70 60 60 5. Lightweight aggregate concrete: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
80 65 50 40 30 20
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 200 160 130 100 80
NOTE 1: Rules for determining fire-resistance ratings shall conform to part 2. Fire-resistance ratings in the schedule only apply to statically determinate structures. Fire-resistance ratings of statically indeterminate structures shall be calculated in accordance with selected and applied standards. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. F.4 Reinforced concrete columns Schedule F.5 - Reinforced concrete columns (all 4 sides are exposed to fire) Properties Minimum value, mm, in order to maintain fire-resistance rating R 240 R 180 R 120 R 90 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. R 30 1. Silica-based aggregate concrete:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 400 300 250 200 150
300 275 225 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 150 150
275 225 200 150 120 120 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Additional reinforcement is allowed within concrete cover if necessary 300 275 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 200 190 150 3. Lightweight aggregate concrete 300 275 225 200 190 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
NOTE 1: Rules for determining fire-resistance ratings shall conform to part 2. NOTE 2: Fire-resistance ratings in the schedule only apply to statically determinate structures. Fire-resistance ratings of statically indeterminate structures shall be calculated in accordance with selected and applied standards. NOTE 3: Parameters of cross-section of components must be taken into account simultaneously. Schedule F.6 - Reinforced concrete columns (1 side is exposed to fire) Properties Minimum value, mm, in order to maintain fire-resistance rating R 240 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. R 120 R 90 R 60 R 30 Silica-based aggregate concrete: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
180 150 100 100 75 75
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 75 75 65 65
NOTE 1: Rules for determining fire-resistance ratings shall conform to part 2. NOTE 2: Fire-resistance ratings in the schedule only apply to statically determinate structures. Fire-resistance ratings of statically indeterminate structures shall be calculated in accordance with selected and applied standards. NOTE 3: Parameters of cross-section of components must be taken into account simultaneously ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. F.5 Steel structures Schedule F.7 - Encased supporting steel columns (column segment above 1 m in length does not weight less than 45 kg) Structures and encasement materials Minimum thickness, mm, of encasement to maintain fire-resistance rating R 240 R 180 R 120 R 90 R 60 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
1. Concrete with natural aggregate and minimum mix ratio of 1:2:4 2):
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - 25 25 25 25
75 - 50 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 50 2. Solid clay bricks 100 75 50 50 50 50 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 75 60 50 50 50 50
1. Solid clay bricks fitted with reinforcement steel at every horizontal network, not plastered 115 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 50 50 50 2. Solid blocks made from cenosphere concrete or pumice concrete, fitted with reinforcement steel3) at every horizontal network, not plastered 75 50 50 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50
Schedule F.8 - Encased steel girders (a girder segment above 1 m in length does not weight less than 30 kg) Structures and encasement materials Minimum thickness, mm, of encasement to maintain fire-resistance rating ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. R 180 R 120 R 90 R 60 R 30
1. Concrete with natural aggregate and minimum mix ratio of 1:2:4 2): ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
75 50 25 25 25 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
75 75 50 50 50 50
1. Steel mesh: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
- - 38 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 19 12,5
- - 22 19 16 12,5 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
F.6 Floor structures Schedule F.9 - Reinforced concrete floors (of silica-based or limestone-based aggregate) Floor structures Minimum value, mm, in order to maintain fire-resistance rating REI REI ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. REI REI REI 240 180 120 90 60 30 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) 1. Solid floor: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
25 25 20 20 15 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
150 150 125 125 100 100 2. Floor with void areas whose cross section is circular or cubic. Solid area must account for at least 50% of total cross-section area of the floor: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
25 25 20 20 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15
50 40 40 30 25 20
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 175 160 140 110 100 3. Hollow floor with one or multiple cubic void areas whose width exceeds height along the length of the floor ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
25 25 20 20 15 15 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 40 40 30 25 20
230 205 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 155 130 105 4. Ribbed floor whose void areas are filled with clay blocks or inverted T beams whose void areas are filled with concrete blocks or clay blocks. If solid section of the floor is less than 50% of total cross section area, the underside must be plastered to 15 mm of thickness: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
25 25 20 20 15 15
125 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 90 80 70 50
190 175 160 140 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 100 5. T section:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 55 2) 45 2) 35 25 15
65 55 45 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 25 15
150 140 115 90 75 60 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 150 150 125 125 100 90 6. Inverted U-channel flooring section whose radius of curvature at the junction with the floor rib is not greater than the height of the cross section: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
65 2) 55 2) 45 2) 35 25 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
40 30 25 20 15 10
75 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 60 45 40 30
150 150 125 125 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 90 7. Inverted U-channel flooring section whose radius of curvature at the junction with the floor rib is greater than the height of the cross section:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 55 2) 45 2) 35 25 15
40 30 25 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15 10
70 60 50 40 35 25 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 150 150 100 100 75 65
NOTE 1: Rules for determining fire-resistance ratings shall conform to part 2. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE 3: Parameters of cross-section of components must be taken into account simultaneously. Schedule F.10 - Prestressed reinforced concrete floor (of silica-based or limestone-based aggregate) Floor structures Minimum value, mm, in order to maintain fire-resistance rating REI 240 REI 180 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 120 REI 90 REI 60 REI 30 (1) (2) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. (4) (5) (6) (7) 1. Solid floor: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
65 1) 50 1) 40 30 25 15
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 150 125 125 100 100 2. Floor with void areas whose cross section is circular or cubic. Solid area must account for at least 50% of total cross-section area of the floor: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
65 1) 50 1) 40 30 25 15 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 40 40 30 25 20
190 175 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 140 110 100 3. Hollow floor with one or multiple cubic void areas whose width exceeds height along the length of the floor: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
65 1) 50 1) 40 30 25 15
65 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 40 30 25 15
230 205 180 155 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 105 4. Ribbed floor whose void areas are filled with clay blocks or inverted T beams whose void areas are filled with concrete blocks or clay blocks. If solid section of the floor is less than 50% of total cross section area, the underside must be plastered to 15 mm of thickness:
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 1) 40 30 25 15
125 100 90 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 70 50
190 175 160 140 110 100 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
100 1) 85 1) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 1) 40 25
100 85 65 50 40 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
250 200 150 110 90 60
150 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 125 125 100 90 6. Inverted U-channel flooring section whose radius of curvature at the junction with the floor rib is not greater than the height of the cross section: ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
100 1) 85 1) 65 1) 50 1) 40 25
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 45 35 25 20 15
125 100 75 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 45 30
150 150 125 125 100 90 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
100 1) 85 1) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 1) 40 25
50 45 35 25 20 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
110 90 70 50 40 30
150 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 125 125 100 90
NOTE 1: Rules for determining fire-resistance ratings shall conform to part 2. NOTE 2: Fire-resistance ratings in the schedule only apply to statically determinate structures. Fire-resistance ratings of statically indeterminate structures shall be calculated in accordance with selected and applied standards. NOTE 3: Parameters of cross-section of components must be taken into account simultaneously. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. APPENDIX G (regulations) DISTANCE TO EXIT ACCESSES AND WIDTH OF EXIT ACCESSES G.1 Maximum travel distance from the furthest (attended, occupied) point to the nearest exit access G.1.1 Houses The maximum travel distance from entry doors of flats (F1.3 buildings) or dwelling units (F1.2 buildings) to the nearest exit access (stairwells or exit discharges) is prescribed under Schedule G.1. Schedule G.1 - Maximum travel distance from entry doors of flats or dwelling units to the nearest exit access Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structures ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. If doors are located between stairwells or between exit discharges If doors are located on dead-end corridors I, II S0 40 25 II S1 30 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. III S0 30 20 S1 25 15 IV S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15 S1, S2 20 10 V No regulations 20 10 G.1.2 Public structures ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE: In regard to storeys whose corridors are not enclosed by fire protection assemblies in accordance with 3.3.5 or do not comply with 3.3.4, the maximum travel distance of means of egress must be calculated from the furthest point of rooms on those storeys. This note section does not apply to storeys where karaoke rooms or discotheques are located. G.1.2.2 The maximum travel distance from any point of rooms with varying volume without audience seating to the nearest exit access is prescribed under Schedule G.2b. If multiple primary exit accesses are grouped into one exit access, the width of the exit access must not be lower than the total width of all grouped exit accesses. Schedule G.2a - Maximum travel distance from entry doors of rooms to the nearest exit access in public structures Fire resistance category Travel distance, m, based on density of evacuating occupants, people/m2 ≤ 2 \> 2 and ≤ 3 \> 3 and ≤ 4 \> 4 and ≤ 5 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1. From rooms whose entry doors are located between stairwells or exit discharges I, II, III 60 50 40 35 20 IV 40 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 30 25 15 V 30 25 20 15 10 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. I, II, III 30 25 20 15 10 IV 20 15 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 10 7 V 15 10 10 5 5 NOTE 1: Density of evacuating occupants shall be determined by dividing the total number of occupants evacuating by means of egress by area of such means of egress. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Schedule G.2b - Maximum travel distance from any point of public rooms without audience seating to the nearest exit access Room Fire resistance category Maximum travel distance, m, from any point of the room to the nearest exit access based on room volume, 1 000 m3 ≤ 5 \> 5 and ≤ 10 \> 10 (1) (2) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. (4) (5) 1. Waiting rooms, ticket sale rooms, exhibits, galleries, ballrooms, resting rooms, and similar. I, II 30 45 55 III, IV 20 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. See note V 15 See note See note 2. Dining rooms, reading rooms when clear area of each main passage per occupant is not lower than 0,2 m2. I, II 65 See note ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. III, IV 45 See note See note V 30 See note See note 3. Mercantile rooms when clear area of main passages accounts for at least 25% of room area. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 65 80 III, IV 35 45 See note V 25 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. See note 4. Mercantile rooms when clear area of main passages accounts for less than 25% of room area. I, II 25 30 35 III, IV 15 20 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. V 10 See note See note NOTE: These distances must be determined by separate technical evaluation. G.1.3 Manufacturing facility and storage facility G.1.3.1 Maximum travel distance from the furthest attended location in the room the nearest exit access (either an exit discharge or a stairwell) is prescribed under Schedule G.3. In regard to rooms larger than 1 000 m2, distances under Schedule G.3 shall include the length of corridors that lead to the exit accesses. G.1.3.2 Travel distances under Schedule G.3 that correspond to room volumes which fall in between the specified volumes shall be determined by interpolation. G.1.3.3 Travel distances under Schedule G.3 shall apply to rooms up to 6 m in height. If rooms are taller than 6 m, these distances shall be increased as follows: by 20% if rooms are up to 12 m in height; by 30% if rooms are up to 18 m in height; by 40% if rooms are up to 24 m in height without exceeding 140 m in case of class A, class B rooms and 240 m in case of class C rooms. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Schedule G.3 - Maximum travel distance from the furthest attended location to the nearest exit access in manufacturing facility Room volume, 1000 m3 Class of room Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structures Travel distance, m, when density of occupant evacuating on common passage, people/m2 ≤ 1 \> 1 and ≤ 3 \> 3 and ≤ 5 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A, B I, II, III, IV S0 40 25 15 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 60 40 III, IV S1 70 40 30 V S2, S3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 30 20 30 A, B I, II, III, IV S0 60 35 25 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. I, II, III, IV S0 145 85 60 III, IV S1 100 60 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 40 A, B I, II, III, IV S0 80 50 35 40 C1, C2, C3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 160 95 65 III, IV S1 110 65 45 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. A, B I, II, III, IV S0 120 70 50 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 105 75 III, IV S1 160 95 65 ≥ 60 A, B ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 140 85 60 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 200 110 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. III, IV S1 180 105 75 ≥ 80 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 140 100 III, IV S1 200 110 85 Regardless of volume C4, D ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 Any Any Any III, IV S1 160 95 65 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. No regulations 120 70 50 Regardless of volume E I, II, III, IV S0, S1 Any ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Any IV, V S2, S3 160 95 65 NOTE 1: Density of evacuating occupants shall be determined by dividing the total number of occupants evacuating by means of egress by area of such means of egress Schedule G.4 - Travel distance from entry doors to manufacturing rooms up to 1 000 m2 in area to the nearest exit access ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Class of room Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structures Travel distance along corridor, m, from doors of rooms to the nearest exit access, when density of people evacuating through common passages, people/m2 ≤ 2 \> 2 and ≤ 3 \> 3 and ≤ 4 \> 4 and ≤ 5 1. Between 2 exit accesses ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. I, II, III, IV S0 60 50 40 35 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 95 80 65 III, IV S1 85 65 55 45 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S2, S3 60 50 40 35 C4, D, E I, II, III, IV S0 180 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 120 100 III, IV S1 125 100 85 70 No regulations ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 90 70 60 50 2. Into dead-end corridors Regardless of class I, II, III, IV S0 30 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 20 15 III, IV S1 20 15 15 10 No regulations ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15 10 10 8 G.2 Clear width of exit access G.2.1 Public structures G.2.1.1 Width of an exit access from a corridor into a stairwell and width of stringers must be determined on the basis of number of occupants evacuating through the exit access number of evacuating occupants per 1 m of width of exit access (exit access door). Number of evacuating occupants per 1 m of width of exit access varies depending on fire resistance category of the building without exceeding: - 165 people/m in a building with fire resistance category of I or II; - 115 people/m in a building with fire resistance category of III or IV; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. G.2.1.2 For the purpose of calculating width of exit accesses of buildings affiliated with primary schools, secondary schools, boarding schools, and boarding sections thereof, occupant load of each storey must be determined on the basis of occupant load of classrooms, rooms dedicated for vocational education and training, dwelling units, sports, conference spaces, and lecture halls on that storey (see G.3, Schedule G.9). G.2.1.3 Width of doors of classrooms occupied by more than 15 students must not be lower than 0,9 m. G.2.1.4 Width of an exit access from rooms without audience seating must be determined based on the number of occupants evacuating through the exit access according to Schedule G.5 without being lower than 1,2 m in rooms with occupant load exceeding 50 people. Schedule G.5 - Maximum number of occupants per 1 m of width of exit access of rooms without audience seating in public structures Room Fire resistance category Maximum number of occupants per 1 m of width of exit access in rooms with volume of, 1 000 m3 ≤ 5 \> 5 and ≤ 10 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1. Mercantile rooms when clear area of primary means of egress is not lower than 25% of clear area of the rooms; Dining and reading rooms when density of occupants on each primary passage does not exceed 5 people/m2. I, II 165 220 275 III, IV 115 155 See note ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 80 See note See note 2. Mercantile rooms when clear area of primary means of egress is lower than 25% of clear area of the rooms; and other rooms I, II 75 100 125 III, IV ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 70 See note V 40 See note See note NOTE: The maximum number of occupants per 1 m of width of exit access must be determined in accordance with separate technical evaluation. G.2.1.5 Width of primary exit accesses in a mercantile room must not be lower than: - 1,4 m - if area for mercantile occupancy is not larger than 100 m2; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - 2,0 m - if area for mercantile occupancy is larger than 150 m2 and not larger than 400 m2; - 2,5 m - if area for mercantile occupancy is larger than 400 m2. G.2.1.6 Number of occupants per 1 m of width of means of egress from bleachers of sports and outdoor performance structures is prescribed under Schedule G.6. Schedule G.6 - Maximum number of occupants per 1 m of width of means of egress from bleachers of sports and outdoor performance structures Fire resistance category of structures Maximum number of occupants per 1 m of width of means of egress Along staircases of main passages of bleachers Through doors from main passages of bleachers Descending ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Descending Ascending I, II 600 825 620 1 230 III, IV 420 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 435 860 V 300 415 310 615 NOTE: Total number of occupant evacuating through an exit access must not exceed 1 500 people if bleachers have fire resistance category of I or II. Total number of occupants evacuating through means of egress must be reduced by 30% in bleachers with fire resistance category of III and by 50% in bleachers with fire resistance category of IV or V. G.2.2 Manufacturing facility and storage facility ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Number of occupants per 1 m of width of an exit access that corresponds to building volumes that fall in between specified volumes shall be determined by interpolation. In regard to rooms taller than 6 m, number of occupants per 1 m of width of each exit access in these rooms shall be increased: - By 20 % if fire height of the building is 12 m; - By 30 % if fire height of the building is 18 m; by 40 % if fire height of the building is 24 m. If fire height of buildings falls in between the specified values, the number of occupants per 1 m of width of each exit access shall be determined by interpolation. Schedule G.7 - Maximum number of occupants per 1 m of width of exit access from any room of manufacturing facility Room volume, 1 000 m3 Class of room Fire resistance category ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Maximum number of occupants per 1 m of width of exit access from any room, people ≤ 15 A, B I, II, III, IV S0 45 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. III, IV S1 75 No regulations S2, S3 55 30 A, B I, II, III, IV ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 65 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 155 III, IV S1 110 40 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. I, II, III, IV S0 85 C1 , C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 175 III, IV S1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 A, B I, II, III, IV S0 130 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 195 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S1 135 ≥ 60 A, B I, II, III, IV S0 150 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 220 III, IV S1 155 ≥ 80 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 260 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S1 220 Regardless of volume C4, D I, II, III, IV S0 260 III, IV S1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. No regulations S2, S3 130 Regardless of volume E No regulations G.2.2.2 Width of an exit access from a corridor to exit discharge or a stairwell must be determined based on total number of occupants evacuating through such exit access and number of people per 1 m of width of exit access under Schedule G.8 and must not be lower than 0,9 m. Schedule G.8 - Maximum number of occupants per 1 m of width of exit access from corridors of manufacturing facility Class of room with the highest fire risk level with exit access leading into corridor ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Fire risk level of structures Maximum number of people per 1 m of width of exit access from corridor, people A, B I, II, III, IV S0 85 C1, C2, C3 I, II, III, IV S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. IV S1 120 No regulations S2, S3 85 C4, D, E I, II, III, IV S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. IV S1 180 No regulations S2, S3 130 G.3 Maximum number of occupants in buildings or building sections The maximum number of occupants of a room, a storey, or a building shall be the occupant load of that room, storey, or building according to approved design. If occupant load is not specified by the design, the maximum number of occupants shall equal floor area of the room, storey, or building divided by floor space factor (m2/person) under Schedule G.9. NOTE: The “floor area” mentioned above does not include area of staircases, elevators, lavatories, and other auxiliary sections. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Occupying space 2), 3) Floor space factor, m2/person 1. Roofed playgrounds, halls, assembly spaces, clubs, discotheques, bars, karaoke venues, and similar sections 1,0 2. Major lobbies, atriums, reception areas, waiting lounges, and similar sections 3,0 3. Meeting rooms, guest rooms, conference rooms, dining rooms, reading rooms, studying rooms, canteens, and similar rooms 1,5 4. Markets, shopping malls, supermarkets ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5. Galleries or (filming, radio, television, audio recording) studios 1,5 6. General department stores, barber shops, hairdresser shops, laundry shops, repair shops, or similar locations 3,0 7. Art galleries, product exhibits, museums, or similar spaces 5,0 8. Offices 6,0 9. Large furniture retailers such as chairs, tables, floor coverings, and similar ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 10. Kitchens or libraries 7,0 11. Bedrooms or bedrooms integrated with studying rooms 8,0 12. Living rooms, leisure rooms 10,0 13. Storage or storage units 30,0 14. Motor vehicle parking garages ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents.
APPENDIX H (regulations) FIRE RESISTANCE CATEGORY AND FIRE SAFETY ASSURANCE REQUIREMENTS OF BUILDINGS, CONSTRUCTIONS, AND FIRE COMPARTMENTS H.1 Houses and suite-type dorms Fire resistance categories, fire risk levels of structures, maximum permissible fire heights of buildings, and area of a storey in each fire compartment of houses and suite-type dorms are prescribed under Schedule H.1. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structures Maximum fire height of building, m Maximum area of a storey within a fire compartment, m2 I S0 75 2 500 II ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 2 500 S1 28 2 200 III S0 28 1 800 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15 1 800 IV S0 5 1 000 3 1 400 S1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 800 3 1 200 S2 5 500 3 900 V ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5 500 3 800 NOTE 1: Regulations of number of storeys (permissible fire height), area of fire compartments of F1.3 buildings with fire height ranging from exceeding 75 m to 150 m are prescribed under Appendix A. NOTE 2: Load bearing components of two-storey buildings with fire resistance category of IV must have a minimum fire-resistance rating of R 30. H.2 Public structures H.2.1 General provisions Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structures, maximum fire height, and area of a storey within a fire compartment of public structures, including hotels and apartments (other than suite-type dorms and hotels that resemble houses) are prescribed under Schedule H.2. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Schedule H.2 - Public structures Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structures Maximum fire height of building, m Maximum permissible area of a storey within a fire compartment, m2, with the number of above-ground storeys (excluding the topmost mechanical floor) 1 2 3 4,5 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 10 through 16 I S0 50 6 000 5 000 5 000 5 000 5 000 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. II S0 50 6 000 4 000 4 000 4 000 4 000 2 200 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S1 28 5 000 3 000 3 000 2 000 1 200 - III ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15 3 000 2 000 2 000 1 200 - - III S1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2 000 1 400 1 200 800 - - IV S0 9 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1 400 - - - - IV S1 6 2 000 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - - - IV S2, S3 6 1 200 800 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - - V S1, S2, S3 6 1 200 800 - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - NOTE 1: This Schedule applies to public structures mentioned under H.2.1, unless otherwise specified under H.2.2 through H.2.12. NOTE 2: The “-“ symbol in the schedule indicates that a building with fire resistance category matching that on the same row is not allowed to have the same number of storey matching that on the same column. NOTE 3: Load bearing structures of two-storey buildings with fire resistance category of IV must have minimum fire-resistance rating of R 45. NOTE 4: Number of storeys (permissible fire height), area of fire compartments of public structures with fire height ranging from exceeding 50 m to 150 m are prescribed under Appendix A. H.2.2 Service establishments (F3.5) Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structures, maximum fire height of buildings, and area of a storey within a fire compartment of service establishments (F3.5) are prescribed under Schedule H.3. Additional regulations under H.2.12 are required. Schedule H.3 - Service establishments (F3.5) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Fire risk level of structure Maximum fire height of building, m Maximum area of a storey within a fire compartment, m2 Single-storey building Multistorey building (up to 6 storeys excluding the topmost mechanical floor) I S0 18 3 000 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. II S0 18 3 000 2 500 II S1 6 2 500 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. III S0 6 2 500 1 000 III S1 5 1 000 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. IV S0, S1 5 1 000 - IV S2, S3 5 500 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. V S1, S2, S3 5 500 - NOTE: The “-“ symbol in the schedule indicates that a building with fire resistance category matching that on the same row is not allowed to have the same number of storey matching that on the same column. H.2.3 Commercial establishments (F3.1) Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structure, maximum fire height, and area of a storey within a fire compartment of commercial establishments (F3.1) are prescribed under Schedule H.4. Additional regulations under H.2.12 are required. Schedule H.4 - Commercial establishments (F3.1) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Fire risk level of structure Maximum fire height, m Maximum area of a storey within a fire compartment, m2 One storey Two storeys 3 through 5 storeys I, II S0 28 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3 000 2 500 III S0, S1 8 2 000 1 000 - IV ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3 1 000 - - IV, V S1, S2, S3 3 500 - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE 1: The “-“ symbol in the schedule indicates that a building with fire resistance category matching that on the same row is not allowed to have the same number of storey matching that on the same column. NOTE 2: The maximum area of a storey within a fire compartment of a single-storey commercial establishment (that is not a retailer of paint, varnish, finish materials, motor vehicle parts, components, carpets, or furniture) with fire resistance category of III as long as retail sections physically separated from other rooms by type 2 fire-resistance-rated walls. NOTE 3: In regard to retailers with fire resistance category of I or II, building height can be increased by 1 storey if the topmost storey only contains storage, service rooms, and mechanical rooms. NOTE 4: The number of storey shall equal the number of above-ground storey and exclude the topmost storey. H.2.4 Kindergartens, preschools H.2.4.1 Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structures, maximum fire height of buildings (fire compartments) of regular kindergartens and preschools (F1.1) are prescribed under Schedule H.5 depending on the maximum number of seats in the buildings. Additional regulations applicable to these buildings and regulations under H.2.12 are required. Schedule H.5 - Kindergartens and preschools Number of seats Fire resistance category, not lower ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Maximum fire height, m, (number of above-ground storeys excluding the topmost mechanical floor) ≤ 50 No regulations No regulations 3 (1) ≤ 100 III S0, S1 6 (2) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. II S0, S1 ≤ 350 II S0 9 (3) I S0 H.2.4.2 Inner walls, partitions, and floor structures of kindergartens and preschools (F1.1) and clubs (F2.1) in building with fire risk level of structure of S1 through S3, including wood structures/structural elements must have fire risk level of K0. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - Two storeys - for kindergartens and preschools dedicated for children with physical and/or mental disability; - One storey - for kindergartens and preschools dedicated for children with visual impairment. In regard to three-storey kindergartens, rooms for younger students must be positioned on the first storey. H.2.4.4 Rooms for older students, music rooms, physical education rooms, leisure rooms, and service rooms are allowed on the third storey. In this case, rooms larger than 50 m2 require at least one exit access leading directly into stairwells. Corridors connecting stairwells in kindergartens and preschools must be physically separated from rooms by at least type 2 fire-resistance-rated partitions. Doors of rooms must be tightly sealed. H.2.4.5 Auxiliary sections of adjacent buildings used as leisure rooms for children in kindergartens and preschools must have similar fire resistance category and fire risk level of structures as the main buildings. H.2.5 Primary schools and secondary schools (F4.1) and sleeping accommodations of boarding schools (F1.1) H.2.5.1 Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structure, and maximum fire height of primary schools, secondary schools, academic blocks of boarding schools (F4.1), sleeping accommodations of boarding schools (F1.1) shall conform to Schedule H.6. Maximum area of a storey within a fire compartment of these buildings shall conform to Schedule H.2. Additional regulations applicable to these buildings and regulations under H.2.12 are required. Schedule H.6 - Primary schools and secondary schools (F4.1) and sleeping accommodations of boarding schools (F1.1) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Fire risk level of structure Minimum fire resistance category Maximum fire height of the building, m (number of storey) ≤ 100 No regulations No regulations 3 (1) ≤ 270 S1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3 (1) ≤ 350 S0 III 7 (2) S1 II 7 (2) ≤ 600 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. II 11 (3) Any S0 I 19 (5) Sleeping accommodations ≤ 40 No regulations ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3 (1) ≤ 80 S1, S2, S3 IV 3 (1) ≤ 140 S0 IV 3 (1) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S1 III 3 (1) ≤ 280 S0 III 7 (2) Any S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 15 (4) NOTE: The number of storey shall equal the number of above-ground storey and exclude the topmost storey. H.2.5.2 Fire height of academic blocks and boarding blocks for children with mental and/or physical disability must not exceed 9 m. H.2.6 Cultural establishments H.2.6.1 Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structures, and maximum fire height of F2.1 and F2.2 cultural establishments (libraries, museums, galleries, clubs, theaters, auditoriums, cinemas, circuses, and buildings with similar occupancies) shall conform to Schedule H.7 depending on occupant load of the buildings or rooms. H.2.6.2 Additional regulations applicable to these buildings and regulations under H.2.212 are required. H.2.6.3 Occupant load of rooms equals the sum of fixed seats and temporary seats. If cinemas contain several screening rooms, total occupant load of these screening rooms must not exceed values under Schedule H.7. H.2.6.5 Load bearing structures of roof (truss, girders, and similar) of stage and rooms of theaters, clubs, and sports structures with fire resistance category ranging from I through III must have a minimum fire-resistance rating of R 45. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Fire risk category by function Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structure Maximum fire height, m, (number of above-ground storeys excluding the topmost mechanical floor) Occupant load, seats F2.1 I S0 50 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. II S0 9 (3) ≤ 800 II S1 6 (2) ≤ 600 III ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3 (1) ≤ 400 IV, V S0, S1, S2, S3 3 (1) ≤ 300 F2.2 I S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Any II S0 50 ≤ 800 II S1 28 ≤ 600 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 9 (3) ≤ 400 III S1 6 (2) ≤ 300 IV, V S0, S1, S2, S3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. ≤ 300 NOTE 1: The maximum height at which rooms are allowed in F2.1 buildings which is determined by elevation of the first row of seats shall not exceed 9 m in regard to spaces with occupant load exceeding 600 seats. Spaces with occupant load of up to 300 seats are allowed at a height above 28 m are allowed in buildings with fire resistance category of I and fire risk level of structures of S0. NOTE 2: Discotheques with occupant load exceeding 400 people and rooms serving other occupancies with occupant load exceeding 600 people are not allowed on a storey whose fire height exceeds 9 m in an F2.2 building. Spaces with occupant load of up to 300 seats are allowed at a height above 28 m in buildings with fire resistance category I and fire risk level of structure of S0 as long as requirements under A.2.4. NOTE 3: If full-time cinemas and seasonal cinemas with different fire resistance categories are combined, they must be physically separated by type 2 fire-resistance-rated walls. H.2.7 Sports buildings and structures H.2.7.1 If indoor sports competition, indoor skating rinks, indoor pools (with or without bleachers), swimming training rooms, and indoor shooting ranges (below bleachers or in other public structures) are larger than values under Schedule H.2, fire-resistance-rated walls are required to separate these spaces from other rooms. H.2.7.2 Bleachers of any capacity in F2.3 buildings must have fire resistance category of I and fire risk level of structure of S0 if spaces below bleachers accommodate auxiliary rooms of at least 2 storeys. H.2.7.3 Floors below bleachers must be type 2 fire-resistance-rated floors. H.2.7.4 If auxiliary rooms only take up one storey below bleachers or when there are more than 20 rows of benches on the bleachers, load bearing structures of bleachers must have a minimum fire-resistance rating of R 45, fire risk level of K0 and floors below the bleachers must be type 3 fire-resistance-rated floors. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. H.2.7.6 Minimum fire-resistance rating of temporary (mobile) bleachers shall be R 15 regardless of occupant load. H.2.7.7 The aforementioned requirements do not apply to temporary audience seats positioned on sports courts when the sports courts change shapes. H.2.8 Passenger terminals H.2.8.1 Instead of separating passenger terminals with fire resistance category of I or II and fire risk level of structure of S0 into fire compartments using type 1 fire-resistance-rated walls, fire compartments can be separated into fire subcompartments with area compliant with Schedule H.2 (for rooms with similar fire risk categories by function) by drenchers or fire curtains with minimum fire-resistance rating of E 60. In this case, the aforementioned fire curtains and drenchers must be installed in areas so that there is no fire load within a 4 m radius in both sides of the fire curtains and drenchers. H.2.8.2 Floor area contained within fire-resistance-rated walls (fire compartments) in airport terminals with fire resistance category of I can be increased to 10 000 m2 if there are no basements or existing basements (semi-basements) do not contain storage units or other rooms where combustible materials are located (other than storage spaces for belongings and clothing of staff, and rooms with fire and explosion risk classes of C4 and E). In this case, walkways from storage rooms of cleaning equipment in basements and semi-basements to the first storey can be positioned along open staircases. If such walkways lead from storage spaces, they must be positioned along separate staircases contained in enclosed stairwells. Storage rooms (other rooms where automated storage system is located) and clothing storage rooms must be physically separated from other sections of basements by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions and equipped with automatic fire extinguishing system while dispatch - command stations must be physically separated by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions. H.2.8.3 Floor area contained by fire-resistance-rated walls in airport terminals and passenger terminals with fire resistance category of I and fire risk level of structure of S0 shall not be limited if automatic extinguishing system is installed. H.2.9 Hospitals H.2.9.1 Hospitals (F1.1) must be positioned in detached buildings or contained in separate fire compartments with maximum fire height of 28 m. Hospitals with 2 storeys or higher must have fire resistance category of I or II and fire risk level of structure of S0. H.2.9.2 Single-storey hospitals may have fire resistance category of III and minimum fire risk level of structure of S1, in this case, the maximum area of a storey within a fire compartment must not exceed 2 000 m2 for buildings with fire risk level of structure of S0 and not exceed 200 m2 for buildings with fire risk level of structure of S1. Then, walls, partitions, and floors, including wood structures must have fire risk level of K0. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. H.2.9.4 Treatment wards for patients with mental illnesses and treatment wards of medical stations must have maximum fire height of 9 m, minimum fire resistance category of II, and fire risk level of structure of S0. H.2.9.5 Nursing homes and care centers for persons with disabilities must be designed to meet fire safety requirements applied to hospitals. H.2.10 General medicine examination and treatment establishments (F3.4) H.2.10.1 Maximum fire height of out-patient general medicine examination establishments (F3.4) is 28 m. Fire resistance category and fire risk level of structure of establishments that are two-storey high or more must not be lower than II and S0 respectively. H.2.10.2 Medical establishments that do not accommodate in-patient treatment can be located in single-storey buildings with fire resistance category of III and minimum fire risk level of structure of S1 as long as the maximum area of a storey within a fire compartment does not exceed 3 000 m2 for buildings with fire risk level of structure of S0 or not exceed 2 000 m2 for buildings with fire risk level of structure of S1. In this case, walls and partitions separating corridors and entrance halls from adjacent rooms, including wood structures, must have fire risk level of K0. H.2.10.3 Out-patient general medicine examination rooms (F3.4) can be located in auxiliary sections of buildings with fire resistance category of II and minimum fire risk level of structure of S0. These rooms must not be located at a height above 28 m. H.2.11 Sleeping accommodations of nursing facilities H.2.11.1 Sleeping accommodations of nursing facilities must not be taller than 28 m. H.2.11.2 Minimum fire resistance category and fire risk level of structure of sleeping accommodations of nursing facilities taller than 2 storeys must be II and S0 respectively. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. H.2.11.4 The number of sleeping units in sleeping accommodations of nursing facilities with fire risk category of I and II and fire risk level of structure of S0 must not exceed 1 000, with fire risk category of III and fire risk level of structure of S0 must not exceed 150, and with other fire risk categories must not exceed 50. H.2.11.5 Sleeping units for families with children in sleeping accommodations of nursing facilities must be positioned in detached buildings or separate building sections separated by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions, not taller than 6 storeys, and have exit access that are separate from other building sections. In this case, sleeping accommodations must have fire exits that meet any of the following requirements: - The fire exits must lead to balconies or loggias where the clear width of solid wall from the outer edge of the balconies (or loggias) to windows (or glass doorways) must not be lower than 1,2 m or from one glass door that opens to the balconies (or loggias) to another must not be lower than 1,6 m; or - The fire exits must lead to transition walkways with minimum width of 0,6 m and leading to adjacent building sections; or - The fire exits must lead to balconies or loggias where external ladders connecting balconies and loggias of other storeys are installed. H.2.12 Additional regulations applied to public structures under H.2 H.2.12.1 Load bearing structures of roofs of auxiliary sections adjacent to public structures mentioned under H.2.1 through H.2.11 (where a part can be located in the main buildings and a part is located outside of the main buildings) must have minimum fire-resistance rating of R 45 and fire risk level of K0. H.2.12.2 If the entire buildings with fire resistance category of I and II and fire risk level of structure of S0 are equipped with automatic extinguishing system, area of fire compartment mentioned under Schedules H.2 through H.4 can be increased up to two times the specified values. H.2.12.3 If a two-storey building section is contained within a fire compartment of a single-storey building under Schedules H.2 through H.4 and does not take more than 15% of building area, the fire compartment is considered a single-storey building. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. H.2.12.5 Fire-resistance-rated walls in entrance halls and waiting lounges larger than area specified under Schedule H.2 can be replaced by light-transmitting type 2 fire-resistance-rated partitions. H.2.12.6 Wooden walls (wall surfaces), partitions, and ceilings of buildings with fire resistance category of V that are kindergartens, primary schools, secondary schools, boarding schools, out-patient medical examination and treatment establishments, healthcare centers for children, and clubs (other than single-storey clubs with stone wall cladding) must be protected by fire protection measures. H.2.12.7 If fire-resistance-rated walls cannot be installed in passenger terminals and buildings or rooms with similar occupancies and large spaces (shopping malls, atriums), fire-resistance-rated walls cane be replaced by drenchers which must be positioned into 2 lines that are 0,5 m away from the other with minimum intensity of 1 L/s for every meter in length of the drenchers (for both lines). Drenchers must be sustained for at least 1 hour. In addition, smoke spread between fire compartments must be prevented. H.2.12.8 Libraries must not be taller than 28 m. H.2.12.9 Maximum fire height at which lectures, auditoriums, conference rooms, meeting rooms, sports training grounds without audience, and other rooms with similar occupancies are allowed in buildings with any occupancy is specified under Schedule H.8 and based on fire resistance category, fire risk level of structure, and occupant load. Schedule H.8 - Maximum fire height at which certain rooms are allowed Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structures Occupant load ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. I, II S0 ≤ 300 50 S0, S1 ≤ 600 12 S0, S1 \> 600 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. III S0 ≤ 300 9 S0, S1 ≤ 600 3 IV S0, S1, S2, S3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3 NOTE 1: Maximum height at which a room is allowed means the elevation of the first row of seat. NOTE 2: The aforementioned rooms cannot be positioned higher than the second storey in kindergartens, preschools, retirement homes, care centers for persons with disabilities (other than suite-type), hospitals, sleeping accommodations of boarding education institutions, children facilities, children healthcare facilities (F1.1) or the third storey in schools (F4.1). NOTE 3: Total occupant load of rooms on the same storey must not exceed the value specified under this schedule (unless the rooms are contained in different fire compartments). H.3 Administrative - auxiliary buildings of manufacturing and storage facilities Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structures, maximum height of buildings, and area of a storey within a fire compartment of administrative - auxiliary buildings of manufacturing and storage facilities (buildings that are detached, adjacent, or contained in manufacturing or storage facilities, F4.3) are prescribed under Schedule H.2. Elevation of auditoriums, conference rooms, and meeting rooms under Schedule H.8 must be taken into account when determining fire resistance category of the buildings. H.4 Manufacturing facilities and livestock, poultry, and animal husbandry facilities H.4.1 Manufacturing facilities Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structures, maximum height of buildings, and area of a storey within a fire compartment of manufacturing facilities depend on fire and explosion risk classes under Schedule H.9. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. If automatic extinguishing measure is equipped for the entire manufacturing facilities, floor area within a fire compartment under Schedule H.9 can be increased up to two times the original values, except for buildings with fire resistance category of IV and V. In regard to buildings with fire and explosion risk class of C in which class C1 rooms are located and occupy more than 1/2 the area of corresponding storey area, area of a storey within a fire compartment under Schedule H.9 must be reduced by 25 %. Schedule H.9 - Manufacturing facilities Fire and explosion risk class of building of fire compartment Maximum height of building 1), m Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structures Maximum area of a storey within a fire compartment, m2 Single-storey building ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Three-storey building or more (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) A ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. I, II S0 Any 5 200 3 500 24 III S0 7 800 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 2 600 No regulations IV S0 3 500 - - B 36 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 Any 10 400 7800 24 III S0 7 800 3 500 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. No regulations IV S0 3 500 - - C See 2) 48 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 Any 25 000 7 800 3) 10 400 5 200 3) 24 III S0, S1 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 10 400 5 200 3) 5 200 3 600 3) 18 IV S0, S1 25 000 10 400 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 18 IV S2, S3 2 600 2 000 - 12 V No regulations ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 600 4) - D 54 I, II S0 Any 36 III ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Any 25 000 10 400 30 III S1 Any 10 400 7 800 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. IV S0 Any 10 400 5 200 18 IV S1 6 500 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - E 54 I, II S0 Any 36 III S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 50 000 15 000 30 III S1 Any 25 000 10 400 24 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0, S1 Any 25 000 7 800 18 IV S2, S3 10 400 7 800 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 12 V No regulations 2 600 1 500 -
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE: The “-“ symbol in the schedule indicates that a building with fire resistance category matching that on the same row is not allowed to have the same number of storey matching that on the same column. H.4.2 Livestock, poultry, and animal husbandry facilities (F5.3) Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structure, maximum height of building, and area of a storey within a fire compartment of livestock, poultry, and animal husbandry facilities depend on fire and explosion risk classes and are prescribed under Schedule H.10 whereas those of class D buildings are specified under Schedule H.9. Schedule H.10 - Livestock, poultry, and animal husbandry facilities Fire and explosion risk class of building of fire compartment Maximum height of building 1), m Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structures Maximum area of a storey within a fire compartment, m2 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Two-storey building Three-storey building or more C 36 I, II S0 Any 25 000 10 400 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. III S0 25 000 10 400 5 200 12 IV S0, S1 25 000 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - 12 IV S2, S3 2 600 2 000 - 8 V ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1 200 - - E 36 I, II S0 Any 18 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 Any 50 000 15 000 18 III S1 Any 25 000 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 12 IV S0, S1 Any 25 000 7 800 12 IV S2, S3 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 7 800 - 8 V No regulations 2 600 1 500 -
... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. NOTE 2: The “-“ symbol in the schedule indicates that a building with fire resistance category matching that on the same row is not allowed to have the same number of storey matching that on the same column. H.5 Warehouses H.5.1 Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structures, maximum height of building, and storey area within a fire compartment of warehouses (F5.2) depend on fire and explosion risk classes and are specified under Schedule H.11. Schedule H.11 - Warehouses Fire and explosion risk class of building of fire compartment Maximum height of building 1), m Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structures Maximum area of a storey within a fire compartment, m2 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Two-storey building Three-storey building or more (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) (6) (7) ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. No regulations I, II S0 5 200 - - No regulations III S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. - - No regulations IV S0 3 600 - - No regulations ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S2, S3 75 2) - - B 18 I, II S0 7 800 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 3 500 No regulations III S0 6 500 - - No regulations IV ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5 200 - - No regulations IV S2, S3 75 2) - - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 36 I, II S0 10 400 7 800 5 200 24 III S0 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 5 200 2 600 No regulations IV S0, S1 7 800 - - No regulations ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S2, S3 2 600 - - No regulations V No regulations 1 200 - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. E Any I, II S0 Any 10 400 7 800 36 III ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. Any 7 800 5 200 12 IV S0, S1 Any 2 200 - ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. IV S2, S3 5 200 - - 9 V No regulations 2 200 ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. -
NOTE 1: The “-“ symbol in the schedule indicates that a building with fire resistance category matching that on the same row is not allowed to have the same number of storey matching that on the same column. NOTE 2: If a class C or class E warehouse with fire resistance category of I and fire risk level of S0 does not satisfy height or fire compartment area requirements corresponding to their scale, the latest edition of NFPA 5000 or equivalent standards are allowed for the purpose of determining height and maximum storey area within a fire compartment corresponding to fire-resistance rating of structures, structural elements, and other conditions. Fire-resistance rating of structures and structural elements in this cast must not be lower than the values under Schedule 4 in regard to buildings with fire resistance category of I. H.5.2 In regard to warehouses where work platforms, supporting frames, and mezzanines are located, the number of storeys and storey area within a fire compartment shall be determined in the same manner as manufacturing facilities as stated under H.4.1. If openings are located on floors between storeys, total area of these storeys must not exceed values under Schedule H.10. H.5.3 If the entire building is equipped with automatic extinguishing measure, floor area within a fire compartment can be increased up to two times the original values specified under Schedule H.11, except for buildings with fire resistance category of IV and V. If warehouses are located in manufacturing facilities, warehouse floor area within a fire compartment and their height (number of storeys) must not exceed values under Schedule H.11. H.5.4 Maximum area within a fire compartment of the first storey of multistorey warehouses can be determined in accordance with regulations applicable to singe-storey buildings if floor of the second storey is type 1 fire-resistance-rated floor. ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. H.5.6 Warehouses of finished wood products are limited to only one storey with minimum fire resistance category of IV and fire risk level of structure of S0 and S1. Fire resistance category, fire risk level of structure, and storey area within a fire compartment of warehouses of finished word products are prescribed under Schedule H.12. If warehouses of finished wood products are equipped with automatic extinguishing measures, storey area within a fire compartment can be increased up to two times the values under Schedule H.12 except for buildings with fire resistance category of IV and any fire risk level and buildings with fire resistance category V. In this case, intensity and area serving calculation of amount of water or foaming agents must be increased by 10 %. Schedule H.12 - Warehouses of finished wood products Class of building Fire resistance category Fire risk level of structures Maximum area of a storey contained in a fire compartment, m2 C ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. S0 9 600 IV S0, S1 4 800 IV S2, S3 2 400 V ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. 1 200 H.6 Calculation of fire compartment area H.6.1 Buildings and fire compartments must have dimensions that fit their fire resistance category, fire risk level of structures, fire risk category by function, fire risk classes of technology lines in the buildings or fire compartments. H.6.2 Fire compartment area shall be the largest area of a storey within a fire compartment. Area of a storey within a fire compartment shall be area of floorspace limited by surrounding walls and/or type 1 fire-resistance-rated walls. This area shall be determined in a manner that complies with the following requirements: - Area of a storey within a fire compartment shall be determined by inner circumference of surrounding walls of the storey and not include area of stairwells, unless otherwise specified. If surrounding walls are partially or entirely missing, the area above shall equal floor area; - Area of a storey within a fire compartment of buildings connected via enclosed walkways, tunnels, or enclosed corridors must be determined by the sum of area of connected storeys and area of enclosed walkways, tunnels, or enclosed corridors; - If openings are located on the floor of manufacturing and storage facilities (F5.1, F5.2, and F5.3), area of a storey within a fire compartment shall equal the sum of area of storeys connected by the openings. - If ramps of enclosed parking garages are not physically separated, area of a storey within a fire compartment shall equal the sum of area of storeys connected by non-separated ramps; ... ... ... Please sign up or sign in to your TVPL Pro Membership to see English documents. If open staircases, escalators, atriums, and other occupancies are located in multi-storey spaces of F1.1, F1.2, F2 through F4 buildings, area of a storey within a fire compartment shall equal the sum of area of the bottommost storey of the multi-storey spaces and area of corridors, walkways, rooms of storeys above the multi-storey spaces within the space separated by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions. If multi-storey spaces are not physically separated from adjacent corridors and rooms by type 1 fire-resistance-rated partitions (even when substitutes such as fire curtains, drenchers, and similar devices are installed), area of a storey within a fire compartment shall equal the sum of area of corresponding storeys. If multiple requirements above are combined, the least favorable storey area and building height shall prevail for buildings with corresponding fire risk level of structures. If fire resistance category and fire risk level of structure cannot be determined, fire resistance category of V and fire risk level of structure of S3 shall serve as the basis for determining other fire safety requirements (fire separation distances and so on). |
