Initial draft in preparation: started 2mr20

From data on web site of Statistics Botswana, 2019

Interpretation

Access room: provides an escape route for an Inner room

Disability and handicap

'Disability” and 'handicap' are not synonymous. A disabled person is not automatically a handicapped person, whether or not there is a handicap depends on the nature of the individual's impairment/s and the circumstance in which they are placed.

Disabled people means people who have:

1. an impairment which limits their ability to walk or which requires them to use a wheelchair or other device/s for enabling mobility or

2. impaired hearing or sight

Inner room: where the only escape is via another Access room

Building purpose groups (bw 1981)
	A Multistorey buildings	B Single storey buildings
I	Private residential (houses including flats and maisonettes- (a) up to three stories (b) more than three stories)	Private residential
II	Institutional	Institutional
III	Other residential	Other residential
IV	Office	Office
V	Factory	Factory
VI	Shop	Shop
VII	Assembly	Assembly
VIII	Storage and General	Storage and General

(K) Fire, Explosion

(K1) Fire types, sources

(K2) Fire protection

1 Retardant treatment

2 Spread prevention including fire stopping

Section 8: Compartmentation

	Maximum compartment size
I	Residential dwellings
Single storey	No requirement
Multi-storey
II	Institutional
Single storey
Multi-storey
III	Other residential
Single storey
Multi-storey
IV	Office
Single storey	No requirement
Multi-storey
V	Shop
Single storey	No requirement
Multi-storey
VI	Factory
Single storey	No requirement
Multi-storey
VII	Assembly
Single storey	No requirement
Multi-storey
VIII	Storage and general
Single storey	No requirement
Multi-storey

Section 9: Concealed spaces (cavities)
Section 10: Protection of openings and fire-stopping
Section 12: Construction of external walls
Section 13: Space separation
3 Control including fire fighting, venting
Section 15: Fire mains
Section 16: Vehicle access
Section 17: Venting of heat and smoke from basements
Section 18: Access to building for firefighting personnel
Fire engine access
1-Buildings without wet or dry risers
2-Any building with dry riser
2-Any building with wet riser
Flats and maisonettes over two storeys
1-Blocks with dry risers
2-Blocks with wet risers
3-Blocks without wet or dry risers
2.4 Means of escape
Section 2.4.1: Dwelling houses
Habitable rooms, used for dwelling purposes, should open directly onto a hall or stairway
Section 2.4.2: Flats and maisonettes
Section 2.4.3: Horizontal escape for buildings other than dwellings
Section 2.4.4: Vertical escape for buildings other than dwellings
Section 2.4.5: General provisions for buildings other than dwelling houses
Section 2.4.11: Car parks and shopping complexes
(K3) Fire resistance (structures)
Structural precautions
Section 7: Loadbearing elements of structure

	Structural element fire resistance
I	Residential dwellings
Single storey
Multi-storey

(K4) Reaction to fire (materials)

Section 6: Wall and ceiling linings

Section 14: Roof coverings

1 Combustibility including combustible, non-combustible (incombustible)

2 Calorific value (thermal value)

3 Fire load, heat release rate

4 Ignitability including ignition temperature (fire point), flash point

5 Flammability (inflammability), flame spread

(K5) Combustion products

Smoke, fumes, soot

(K6) Explosions

Arresting, venting: explosive limits (gases and vapours)

(K7) Fire and explosion damage, salvage

(K8) Other factors relating to fire, explosion

David Young 2020

Abang Onius Thibelang 2020

Leruo Lantern 2020

References