NZ FIRE COMPLIANCE
NZBC Fire Regulations and Acceptable Solutions
10m or less in height
Must be greater than 1m
from relevant boundary
VEHICLE STORAGE & PARKING
(Car parking buildings, Vehicle parking, service vehicle & unloading areas etc.)
TOWNHOUSES, SMALL MULTI-UNIT
DWELLINGS & OUTBUILDINGS
Risk group SH
HIGH LEVEL STORAGE OR
SERVICE ACTIVITIES
VEHICLE STORAGE
& PARKING
(With potential for fast
fire growth)
Risk group WS
INDUSTRIAL & STORAGE
ACTIVITIES
(Factories, processing
& manufacturing plants
(excluding formed plastics),
Low level storage etc.)
Risk group WB
PERMANENT, TRANSIENT &
EDUCATION ACCOMMODATION
(Apartments, hotels,
motels, hostels etc.)
Risk group SM
PUBLIC ACCESS & EDUCATIONAL
FACILITIES
(Halls, theatres, schools, early
childhood centres, churches etc.)
Risk group CA
PROFESSIONAL
ACTIVITIES
(Offices, Labratories,
workshops etc.)
Risk group WB
Industrial & Commercial
Residential & Apartment
*Weathertex cannot be used on risk group SI buildings.
TABLE 1.1 RISK GROUPS: SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS
Acceptable Solution
Risk group
Applies to
C/AS1
SH
Buildings with sleeping (residential) and outbuildings
Detached dwellings with a single household unit such as: stand-alone houses Low-rise multi-unit dwellings where each household unit has its own escape route that is independent of all other household units such as: Attached townhouses. Stacked household units where there is no more than one household unit above another with each household unit having a single storey and an escape height less than 4.0 m.
Detached dwellings where fewer than six people (not including members of the residing family) pay for accommodation such as: boarding houses, homestays, bed and breakfast. Outbuildings
Acceptable Solution C/AS2
SM
Sleeping ( non-institutional)
Permanent accommodation such as: Apartment buildings and other buildings which consist of more than one household unit (other than low-rise multi-unit dwellings in the
scope of risk group SH).
Transient accommodation such as: Hotels, motels, serviced apartments, hostels, backpackers, cabins at holiday parks. Buildings where six or more people pay for accommodation (such as boarding houses/homestays/ bed and breakfast). Wharenui
and other community sleeping spaces such as halls (even if used occasionally). Sheltered housing such as refuges, reintegration for prisoners, homeless shelters etc.
Educational accommodation such as: University halls of residence, school boarding, hostels ect
Acceptable Solution C/AS2
CA
Public access and educational facilities
Crowd activities such as: Halls, theatres and cinemas. Recreation and event centres (including tiered seating for up to 2000 people and with any primary egress for more than
100 people at the level of the playing surface). Educational institutions without sleeping including schools and early childhood centres. Churches and other places of worship. Restaurants and cafes, shops and shopping malls. Exhibition, retail areas including car showrooms and trade fair space. Public libraries with less than 2.4 m storage height.
Spaces for viewing open air activities (does not include spaces below a grandstand), open grandstands, roofed but unenclosed grandstand, uncovered fixed seating). Personal service activities such as: Dentists, doctors (except as included within risk group
SI), banks, beautician and hairdressing salons.
Acceptable Solution C/AS2
WB
Business, commercial and low level
storage
Professional activities such as: Offices (including professional services such as law and accountancy practices). Laboratories, workshops (including mechanics workshops). May contain storage with a capable height of storage of less than 3.0 m.
Industrial activities such as: Factories, processing and manufacturing plants (excluding foamed plastics) with a capable height of storage of less than 3.0m.
Storage activities such as: Buildings or parts of buildings capable of storage no more than 5.0 m in height. Warehouses and storage buildings (other than those listed above), capable of storage more than 5.0 m in height, but a height to the apex no greater than 8.0 m and total floor area of no more than 4200 m2. Temperature controlled storage with a capable height of storage of less than 3.0 m, other than some limited areas inprocessing areas, or up to a maximum area of 500 m2 with a maximum capable of
storage height of 5.0 m.
Intermittently occupied buildings (other than outbuildings) such as: Light aircraft hangers, buildings containing fixed plant and or fixed machinery and spray painting operations, whether or not in a spray booth.
Acceptable Solution C/AS2
WS
S
High level storage or potential for fast fire gowth
Storage activities such as: Warehouses with a capable height of storage of over 5.0 m or over 8.0 m to the apex and total floor area greater than 4200 m2. Temperature controlled storage outside of the scope of risk group WB.
Service activities such as: Trading and bulk retail wholesalers with a storage height greater than 3.0 m. Supermarkets with shelving over 3.0 m in height. Exhibition, retail areas and trade fair space with a storage height greater than 3.0 m.
Acceptable Solution C/AS2
VP
Vehicle storage and parking
Vehicle parking – within a building or a separate building including: Car parking buildings. Vehicle parking or stacking within buildings. Goods vehicle parking. Service vehicle and unloading areas. Car storage warehouses.
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