Building Control Briefing

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Building Control Briefing Paul Bowley Principal
Building Control Surveyor
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• Part B Fire Safety
• Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
• Fire Safety Guidance Documents
• Transitional Provisions
• Oil Fired Boilers
• Revised Building Control Charges
• Revised Building Control Forms

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The Building and Approved Inspectors (Amendment)
(No. 2) Regulations 2006
Coming into force on the 6th April 2007 New
Regulation 16B Fire Safety Information Revisions
to Part B Fire Safety Revised wording to B3
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Changes to Part B (Fire Safety) of the Building
Regulations and Approved Document B
Volume 1 - Dwellinghouses Volume 2 Buildings
Other Than Dwellinghouses Flats (including
multi-storey flats mixed-use buildings) can be
found in Volume 2
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Procedural Changes
Amended requirement B3(3) part of internal fire
spread (structure)
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Procedural Changes
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Procedural Changes

• Building Control are still responsible for
  checking compliance of building work
• Fire Safety Authority are responsible for
  enforcing the fire safety order once the building
  is occupied, previously the Fire Precautions Act
  and the Workplace Regulations
• Will be amended again to incorporate Part B
  changes

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" Fire safety information 16B. (1) This
regulation applies where building work (a)
consists of or includes the erection or extension
of a relevant building or(b) is carried out in
connection with a relevant change of use of a
building, and Part B of Schedule 1 imposes a
requirement in relation to the work. (2) The
person carrying out the work shall give fire
safety information to the responsible person not
later than the date of completion of the work, or
the date of occupation of the building or
extension, whichever is the earlier.(3) In this
regulation  (a) "fire safety information" means
information relating to the design and
construction of the building or extension, and
the services, fittings and equipment provided in
or in connection with the building or extension
which will assist the responsible person to
operate and maintain the building or extension
with reasonable safety(b) a "relevant
building" is a building to which the Regulatory
Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005 applies4, or
will apply after the completion of building
work(c) a "relevant change of use" is a
material change of use where, after the change of
use takes place, the Regulatory Reform (Fire
Safety) Order 2005 will apply, or continue to
apply, to the building and(d) "responsible
person" has the meaning given by article 3 of the
Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005."
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Procedural Changes
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Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
STATUTORY INSTRUMENTS  2005 No. 1541  REGULATORY
REFORM, ENGLAND AND WALES The Regulatory Reform
(Fire Safety) Order 2005
Meaning of "responsible person" 3. In this Order
"responsible person" means (a) in relation to a
workplace, the employer, if the workplace is to
any extent under his control(b) in relation to
any premises not falling within paragraph
(a)   (i) the person who has control of the
premises (as occupier or otherwise) in connection
with the carrying on by him of a trade, business
or other undertaking (for profit or not)
or(ii) the owner, where the person in control
of the premises does not have control in
connection with the carrying on by that person of
a trade, business or other undertaking.
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Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
Application to premises     6. (1) This Order
does not apply in relation to (a) domestic
premises, except to the extent mentioned in
article 31(10)(b) an offshore installation
within the meaning of regulation 3 of the
Offshore Installation and Pipeline Works
(Management and Administration) Regulations
199513(c) a ship, in respect of the normal
ship-board activities of a ship's crew which are
carried out solely by the crew under the
direction of the master(d) fields, woods or
other land forming part of an agricultural or
forestry undertaking but which is not inside a
building and is situated away from the
undertaking's main buildings(e) an aircraft,
locomotive or rolling stock, trailer or
semi-trailer used as a means of transport or a
vehicle for which a licence is in force under the
Vehicle Excise and Registration Act 199414 or a
vehicle exempted from duty under that Act(f) a
mine within the meaning of section 180 of the
Mines and Quarries Act 195415, other than any
building on the surface at a mine(g) a
borehole site to which the Borehole Sites and
Operations Regulations 199516 apply.(2)
Subject to the preceding paragraph of this
article, this Order applies in relation to any
premises
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Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
PART 2FIRE SAFETY DUTIES Duty to take general
fire precautions   8. (1) The responsible
person must(a) take such general fire
precautions as will ensure, so far as is
reasonably practicable, the safety of any of his
employees and(b) in relation to relevant
persons who are not his employees, take such
general fire precautions as may reasonably be
required in the circumstances of the case to
ensure that the premises are safe. Risk
assessment     9. (1) The responsible person
must make a suitable and sufficient assessment of
the risks to which relevant persons are exposed
for the purpose of identifying the general fire
precautions he needs to take to comply with the
requirements and prohibitions imposed on him by
or under this Order.
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Regulatory Reform (Fire Safety) Order 2005
Duty to Consult
Duty to consult enforcing authority before
passing plans     45. (1) Where it is proposed
to erect a building, or to make any extension of
or structural alteration to a building and, in
connection with the proposals, plans are, in
accordance with building regulations, deposited
with a local authority, the local authority must,
subject to paragraph (3), consult the enforcing
authority before passing those plans.    (2)
Where it is proposed to change the use to which a
building or part of a building is put and, in
connection with that proposal, plans are, in
accordance with building regulations, deposited
with a local authority, the authority must,
subject to paragraph (3), consult with the
enforcing authority before passing the
plans.    (3) The duty to consult imposed by
paragraphs (1) and (2) (a) only applies in
relation to buildings or parts of buildings to
which this Order applies, or would apply
following the erection, extension, structural
alteration or change of use(b) does not apply
where the local authority is also the enforcing
authority.
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Procedural Changes
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Volume OneDwellinghouses
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New Diagram 1 illustrates basic principles
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Smoke Heat Alarms

• Direct reference to BS 5839-6 2004
• Grade D mains powered with standby supply
• LD3 Detectors in circulation spaces
• Extensions
• Provide smoke alarms where habitable rooms are
  provided above ground level or
• if at ground level where there is no final exit
  from the new room

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Domestic Sprinklers
New guidance on the use of domestic sprinklers as
a compensatory feature. Specific alternative
approaches in paragraphs B1 2.7 houses with
more than one floor over 4.5m above ground
level B1 2.20b Loft conversions B4 9.15 Space
separation
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Egress Windows
Not required in houses with a floor more than
4.5m above ground level. Locks (with or without
removable keys) and stays may be fitted to egress
windows, subject to the stay being fitted with a
release catch, which may be child reistant
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Replacement Windows
Escape provision to be no worse than the window
it replaces except- If original window is larger
than necessary, opening can be reduced to minimum
dimensions specified.
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Fire Doors
Self Closing Devices Self-closing devices not
required on fire doors within dwellings. Except Do
ors to integral garages Flat entrance doors (vol.
2) Fire Doors ARE still necessary
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Loft Conversions
Alternative approach DELETED Provide protected
stairs smoke alarms Some existing doors could
be upgraded Alternative approach for open plan
ground floor Cut off door, escape window and
sprinkler protection
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Galleries

• Galleries
• Alternative exit/escape window
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• Overlook 50 of the room below
• 7.5m max travel to head of stair
• 3m max travel from foot of stair
• cooking facilities remote or enclosed
• Also applies to flats

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• Integral Garages
• Compartment wall floor
• Sloping floor OR 100mm step
• See also
• Item 8 Table A1 REI 30
• Item 2 Table 3 soil pipes
• Item 1b Table B1 E30 Sa Door

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Diagram 11 Junction of Compartment Wall with Roof
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Roof Coverings (Vol 1 2)
New European roof test Constructions are
classified within the BS EN 13501-52005
as BROOF(t4), CROOF(t4), DROOF(t4), EROOF(t4)
or FROOF(t4) BROOF(t4) being the
highest performance and FROOF(t4) being the
lowest (t4) indicates test 4 from the soon to
be BS EN 1187
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Volume TwoBuildings Other Than Dwellinghouses
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Flats
New guidance on the use of domestic sprinklers as
a compensatory feature. Specific alternative
approaches in paragraphs B1 2.7 houses with
more than one floor over 4.5m above ground
level B4 9.15 Space separation

• Domestic Sprinkler Protection for Flats
• Sprinklers to be provided within individual flats
  in blocks over 30m in height.
• Limitation of BS 9251 clarified height
  restriction to under 20m in height can be
  ignored.

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Smoke Control of Common Escape Route in Flats

• There should be some means of ventilating common
  corridors/ lobbies to control smoke and so
  protect common stairs
• This offers individual protection to that
  provided by the fire doors to the stair
• single stair buildings AOV
• Multi stair buildings OV

• Guidance on the design of smoke control systems
  using pressure differentials is available in BS
  EN 12101-62005.

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Flats
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Small Premises
Guidance from BS 5588 incorporated into main
text Moving back from having to purchase
additional documents!
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Open Spatial Planning
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Self Storage Buildings
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Care Homes
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Inclusive Design
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Refuges
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Compartmentation
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Phased Evacuation
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Compartment Walls/ Floors Junction
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Cavity Barriers
Guidance reworked for clarity Barriers in under
floor voids Aluminium and uPVC windows not
suitable for closing cavities
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Notional Boundaries
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Car Parks
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External Walls
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Fire Service Access

• Vehicle access for pump appliance within 45m of
  all pointsto blocks of flats
• Or provide fire mains (not in f/f shaft)
• Fire mains
• New standard BS 9990
• Wet mains required for buildings over 50m
• Dry mains
• Access for pump within 18m

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Fire Fighting Shafts/ Fire Mains
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Private Fire Hydrants
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Door Measurement
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Smoke Ventilators
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Transitional Provisions
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Fire Safety Risk Assessment Documents
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www.communities.gov.uk
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Changes to Oil Fired Boiler Requirements
 From the 1st April 2007 the energy performance
standard of new and replacement Oil fired central
heating boilers. From that date, in normal
circumstances when you plan to install a new
boiler or replace an existing one, you will need
a condensing boiler to meet the higher standards
for energy efficiency. This follows on from Gas
fired central heating boilers, which have had to
comply since 1st April 2005.   For boilers
installed on or after the 1st April 2007 The
boiler should be a condensing type and The
boiler efficiency should not be less than 86 (as
expressed by its SEDBUK value) Further
information is available in the 2nd tier document
Domestic Heating Compliance Guide which can be
viewed at www.planningportal.gov.uk
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Revised Building Control Charges
Cotswold District Council Building Control
charges are being amended from the 1st April
2007. The increase is the first since April
2004. Schedule 1 Dwellings Schedule 2 Domestic
Extensions Schedule 3 for works up to
100,000. The public were notified of the
revised scheme of charges in the Wilts and Glos
Standard dated 8th March 2007 in accordance
with the requirements of the Building (Local
Authority Charges) Regulations 1998.
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Comparison of Building Notice Charges (January
2007) inclusive of VAT.
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Revised Application Form
Standard Application Form for all Gloucestershire
Authorities. One application form for Full Plans,
Building Notice and Resubmissions. Separate Form
for Regularisation Applications
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Any Questions Thank You for Attending
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