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BIDP guide on building fire safety |
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Statistics on building fires in Botswana |
From data on web site of Statistics Botswana, 2019
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Information & communication technology |
Access room: provides an escape route for an Inner room
Disability and handicap
'Disabilityā€¯ 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:
an impairment which limits their ability to walk or which requires them to use a wheelchair or other device/s for enabling mobility or
impaired hearing or sight
Inner room: where the only escape is via another Access room
Building purpose groups (bw 1981) |
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A Multistorey buildings | B Single storey buildings | ||
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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 |
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(K) Fire, Explosion |
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(K1) Fire types, sources |
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(K2) Fire protection |
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1 Retardant treatment |
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2 Spread prevention including fire stopping |
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Section 8: Compartmentation |
Maximum compartment size | |
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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 |
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Habitable rooms, used for dwelling purposes, should open directly onto a hall or stairway
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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 | |
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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
code |
title |
author |
published |
publisher |
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dffs |
Designing for Fire Safety |
E Gordon Butcher and Alan C Parnell |
1983 |
John Wiley and Sons Ltd, |
sanbr |
Code of practice for the application of the National Building Regulations |
Council of the SA Bureau of Standards |
First revision |
SABS |
dfd |
Designing for the disabled |
Selwin Goldsmith |
Third revision 1976 reprinted 1992 |
RIBA Publications |
bbr |
Botswana Building Control |
RB government |
1962, 1977, 1981 |
RB government, Gaborone |
utbr |
Understanding the Building Regulations |
Simon Polley |
First edition 1995, reprinted 1996, 1997 |
E & FN Spon, London |