Practice Advisory 18: Fire safety design for tall buildings
- Abbreviation
- Practice Advisory 18
- Valid from
- 6/07/2016
- Information provider
- Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment,
- Information type
- Practice advisory,
- Format
- Website,
Description
It’s important that reliable and resilient fire design features are used in the design of tall buildings. This advisory highlights the specific considerations for designing tall buildings to achieve the fire safety performance requirements of the Building Code.
Scope
This Practice Advisory includes:
- Purpose
- Background
- Scope and application
- International guidance
- Structure stability, resilience and fire resistance
- Fire fighting access and facilities
- Phased evacuation and evacuation to a place of safety inside the building
- Effectiveness and resilience of systems
- External cladding systems
- Fire Engineering Brief (FEB)