Firefighting route
Approved document B, Fire Safety, Volume 2, Buildings other than dwellinghouses, gives the following definitions:
- Firefighting lift: A lift designed to have additional protection, with controls that enable it to be used under the direct control of the fire and rescue service in fighting a fire.
- Firefighting lobby: A protected lobby providing access from a firefighting stair to the accommodation area and to any associated firefighting lift.
- Firefighting shaft: A protected enclosure containing a firefighting stair, firefighting lobbies and, if provided, a firefighting lift, together with its machine room.
- Firefighting stair: A protected stairway communicating with the accommodation area only through a firefighting lobby.
[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki
- Dry riser.
- Escape route.
- Fire.
- Fire and rescue service.
- Fire compartment.
- Fire detection and alarm systems.
- Fire door.
- Fire protection engineering.
- Fire resistance.
- Fire safety design.
- Firefighting lift.
- Firefighting lobby.
- Firefighting shaft.
- Inner room.
- Protected escape route.
- Protected stairway.
- Unprotected escape route.
- Wet riser.
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