Scottish Building Regulations: Fire Safety review and Compliance: Call for Evidence
Fire Safety - A general call for evidence on any aspects of fire safety guidance that requires new guidance and/or clarification
As part of the review of Section 2 (Fire), Scottish Government will explore any aspects of fire safety guidance that requires new guidance and / or clarification. This will include public and targeted consultation with appropriate stakeholders following this call for evidence.
We want to hear about the challenges you faced in meeting fire safety standards and to identify any further opportunities for improvement in both content and communication of standards and guidance and their application and clarity of intent in practice to further improve the fire safety performance of buildings.
Please consider:
- what are the needs and possibilities for change, including any potential impact?
- does what we present manage the risks we have?
- where is it not working?
Examples of potential areas for improvement may be:
- new or improved guidance, for example:
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- battery energy storage systems,
- photovoltaic panels,
- mass timber construction,
- car parks and electric vehicles,
- door locks,
- opening and service penetrations,
- spread to neighbouring buildings,
- cavity barriers,
- alternative automatic fire suppression systems
- the general layout and usability of the technical handbooks - for example the presentation, the need or preference for more diagrams or accompanying explanatory text and the number and/or organisation of the functional standards
- where we can improve on intent and interpretation including definitions, such as fire barriers
- simplify the guidance and functional standards for example potentially reduce the number of functional standards and/or how they are structured.