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Foreword
Section 1: General
1 Scope
2 Normative references
3 Terms and definitions
4 General recommendations and background
Section 2: Designing means of escape
5 Genera
6 Means of escape and provision for rescue from houses
7 Means of escape from flats and maisonettes
8 Means of escape from special housing
9 Internal planning of flats
Section 3: Active fire protection
10 Fire detection and alarm systems
11 Fire suppression systems
12 Manual fire-fighting equipment
13 Special risk protection
14 Smoke control
15 Power supplies, cabling and installation
Section 4: Design for construction
16 Fire resistance
17 Compartmentation
18 External fire spread and building separation
19 Concealed spaces
20 Materials
21 Service ducts, pipes and shafts
22 Glazed fire-resisting elements
23 Active fire curtain/barrier assemblies
24 Openings
25 Floors and ramps on escape routes
26 Design and construction of common stairs
Section 5: Stairs and final exits
27 Number and siting of common stairs
28 Width of common stairs
29 Enclosure of common stairs
30 Basement stairs
31 Stairs within mixed-use developments
32 Access lobbies and corridors to protected stairways
33 External stairs
34 Discharge from common stairs and final exits
Section 6: Mechanical systems for ducted heating,
           ventilation and air conditioning (HVAC)
35 HVAC systems within individual dwellings
36 HVAC systems serving the whole building or interconnecting
   dwellings and other residential units
Section 7: Ancillary accommodation to flats and
           maisonettes
37 Ancillary accommodation
38 Installation of engineering services
39 Engineering service installation rooms
40 Gas services, installation and service pipes
41 Electrical services
42 Gas and electricity meters
43 Lighting
44 Lift machine rooms and machinery spaces
45 Communal heating, ventilation and air conditioning systems
46 Refuse storage, disposal and incineration
47 Car parks and domestic garages
Section 8: Access and facilities for fire-fighting
48 General recommendations for fire-fighting facilities
49 Fire-fighting access
50 Water supplies for fire and rescue service fire-fighting use
51 Information for fire and rescue service use
Section 9: Management
52 Management of special housing
53 Evacuation of disabled occupants or occupants that require
   assistance to escape
54 Residents
55 Caretakers
56 Maintenance of fire protection measures
57 Maintenance of building plant and equipment
58 Ensuring that systems respond properly in an emergency
Section 10: Building works: Material alterations, extensions,
            refurbishment, change of use, disuse, decommissioning
            and demolition
59 Design of works
60 Change of use
61 Refurbishments
62 Dwellings in disuse and areas decommissioned
63 Managing building work and material alterations
64 Building works to occupied or partly occupied buildings
Annexes
Annex A (informative) - Methods of smoke control
Annex B (informative) - Assessing the level of fire precautions for
        special housing
Annex C (normative) - Additional recommendations for property
        and business continuity protection
Annex D (normative) - Atria
Annex E (normative) - Private balconies (open or enclosed) and
        communal roof gardens
Annex F (informative) - Management of additional needs and disabilities
Annex G (informative) - Advice to occupiers of dwellings in residential
        buildings
Bibliography

BS 9991.