Approved Document B: Fire Safety (Volume 2) - Buildings other than dwellinghouses

Incorporating Insurers' Requirements for Property Protection
RISCAuthority

October 2008
Code: 67167
ISBN: 9781859463154
224 pp
Paperback
£25.00

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"… a major change in approach by the insurers and should further bridge the gap in understanding between themselves and the design community."
Rt Hon Nick Raynsford MP, Chairman of FPA Council

This guide, essentially an enhanced version of Approved Document B (Volume 2), offers extra insurer-friendly technical guidance for construction professionals about how to protect commercial buildings from fire beyond the building regulations' critical life safety measures. With the cost of major fires costing the British economy over £7 billion a year and high rates of consequent business failure, property protection is a key business objective for construction clients and their insurers, who will value appropriate measures that are designed in rather than added on as an afterthought.

For the first time, this guide aligns guidance for property protection with the much more familiar Approved Document B. It succinctly and transparently annotates the existing document, providing a practical and easy-to-use shortcut to meeting the requirements of the Building Regulations, your clients and their insurers - all in one book. The annotation is further supported by the inclusion of RISCAuthority's ‘Insurer Requirements for the Implementation of Fire Safety Engineering Solutions', which considers the property protection dimension of engineered fire safety designs.

Co-published by the Fire Protection Association and endorsed by the Department of Communities and Local Government, this new guide is an invaluable resource for architects, architectural technologists, engineers, surveyors, builders, fire prevention specialists and other consultants in the construction design community.

About RISCAuthority (Risk Insight, Strategy and Control Authority)
RISCAuthority's (formerly InFiReS - Insurers' Fire Research Strategy Scheme) membership comprises a group of UK insurers that actively support a number of expert working groups developing and promulgating best practice for the protection of property and business from loss due to fire and other risks. The technical expertise for this guide has been provided by the Technical Division of the Fire Protection Association, external consultants, and experts from the insurance industry.