Warning Systems - Building Performance

1 Compliance Document for New Zealand Building Code Clause F7 Warning Systems Fourth EditionPrepared by the Department of Building and HousingThis Compliance Document is prepared by the Department of Building and Housing. The Department of Building and Housing is a Government Department established under the State Sector Act about the content of this document should be directed to: Department of Building and HousingPO Box 10-729, 0800 242 243 Fax 04 494 0290 Email: 978-0-478-38184-9 (print) ISBN: 978-0-478-38185-6 (electronic) Compliance Documents are available from Department of Building and Housing 2012 This Compliance Document is protected by Crown copyright, unless indicated otherwise.

2 The Department of Building and Housing administers the copyright in this document. You may use and reproduce this document for your personal use or for the purposes of your business provided you reproduce the document accurately and not in an inappropriate or misleading context. You may not distribute this document to others or reproduce it for sale or Department of Building and Housing owns or has licences to use all images and trademarks in this document. You must not use or reproduce images and trademarks featured in this document for any purpose (except as part of an accurate reproduction of this document) unless you first obtain the written permission of the Department of Building and StatusThe most recent version of this document, as detailed in the Document History, is approved by the Chief Executive of the Department of Building and Housing.

3 It is effective from 10 April 2012 and supersedes all previous versions of this document on 10 April using this Compliance Document should check for amendments on a regular basis. The Department of Building and Housing may amend any part of any Compliance Document at any time. Up-to-date versions of Compliance Documents are available from : Document HistoryDateAlterationsFirst publishedJuly 1992 Second edition incorporating Amendment 1 December 1993p. v, Contents p. vi, Referencesp. vii, Definitions p. 3 to 8, Complete rewriteAmendment 219 August 1994pp. i and ii, Document History p. 4, , , , 5, , , p. 7 and 8, IndexAmendment 31 December 1995p.

4 Ii, Document History p. vi, References p. 3, , , , , , 4, p. 5, p. 6, addedReprinted incorporatingAmendments 1, 2 and 3 April 1998 Third edition1 December 2000 Effective from 1 June 2001 Document revised third edition issuedAmendment 424 April 2003p. 3, Code Clause p. 5, Contents p. 7, Referencesp. 13, Type 1 pp. 17 and 18, p. 20, IndexReprinted incorporatingAmendment 4 April 2004 Amendment 5 4 July 2005 Effective 1 October 2005pp. 1-2, Document History and Status pp. 7-8, Referencespp. 9-10, Definitionspp. 13-14, F7/AS1 Amendment 6 Effective 1 November 2008p. 2, Document History p. 5, Contents p. 7, Referencesp. 9, Definitions p.

5 13, 14, , , , 15, , 16, , 17, 19-20, IndexAmendment 7 Effective 10 October 2011 until 10 April 2013pp. 1-2, Document History and Status p. 3, Code Clausep. 7, Referencesp. 17, F7/AS1 edition10 April 2012 Document revised fourth edition issuedNote: Page numbers relate to the document at the time of Amendment and may not match page numbers in current of Compliance DocumentsCompliance Documents are prepared by the Department of Building and Housing in accordance with section 22 of the Building Act 2004. A Compliance Document is for use in establishing compliance with the New Zealand Building person who complies with a Compliance Document will be treated as having complied with the provisions of the Building Code to which the Compliance Document relates.

6 However, a Compliance Document is only one method of complying with the Building Code. There may be alternative ways to should make themselves familiar with the preface to the New Zealand Building Code Handbook, which describes the status of Compliance Documents and explains alternative methods of achieving words (italicised in the text) and classified uses are explained in Clauses A1 and A2 of the Building Code and in the Definitions at the start of this Compliance Zealand Building Code Clause F7 Warning SystemsThe mandatory provisions for Building work are contained in the New Zealand Building Code (NZBC), which comprises the First Schedule to the Building Regulations 1992.

7 The relevant NZBC Clause for Warning Systems is F7. The objective of this provision is to safeguard people from injury or illness due to lack of awareness of an Buildings shall be provided with appropriate means of Warning people to escape to a safe place in an A means of Warning must alert people to the emergency in adequate time for them to reach a safe Appropriate means of detection and Warning for fire must be provided within each household Appropriate means of Warning for fire and other emergencies must be provided in buildings as necessary to satisfy the other Performance requirements of this on application FiRSt ScHeDule continued clause F7 Warning

8 SYStemSPerformance does not apply to Outbuildings, backcountry huts or Ancillary SystemsClause F7 Department oF Building anD HouSing, 10 april 2012310 April 2012, DepArtment of Building AnD Housing4 PageContentsReferences 7 Definitions 9 Verification Method F7/VM1 11 Acceptable Solution F7/AS1 Installation and maintenance 13 of fire alarm Fire alarm Systems Description of alarm Systems 13 Type 1 Domestic smoke 13 alarm system Type 2 Manual fire alarm system 13 Type 3 Automatic fire alarm 13 system activated by heat detectors and manual call points Type 4 Automatic fire alarm 13 system activated by smoke detectors and manual call points Type 5 Automatic

9 Fire alarm 13 system with modified smoke detection and manual call points Type 6 Automatic fire sprinkler 13 system with manual call points Type 7 Automatic fire sprinkler 14 system with smoke detectors and manual call Location of heat and smoke 14 detectors Requirements of 14 fire alarm Alerting the Fire Service Domestic smoke alarms Scope Type 1 Domestic smoke 14 alarm Location of smoke alarms Maintenance 15 Index 17 Warning SystemsContents F7/VM1 & AS1 DepArtMent oF Building AnD HouSing, 10 April 2012510 April 2012, DepArtment of Building AnD Housing6 ReferencesFor the purposes of New Zealand Building Code compliance, the New Zealand and other Standards, and other documents referred to in this Compliance Document (primary reference documents) shall be the editions, along with their specific amendments, listed below.

10 Where the primary reference documents refer to other Standards or other documents (secondary reference documents), which inturn may also refer to other Standards or other documents, and so on (lower order reference documents), then the applicable version of these secondary and lower order reference documents shall be the version in effect at the date this Compliance Document was New ZealandNZS 4512: 2010 Fire alarm Systems in buildings AS1 , , , , , , NZS 4514: 2009 Interconnected smoke alarms for houses AS1 c), , 4515: 2009 Fire sprinkler Systems for life safety in sleeping AS1 occupancies (up to 2,000 m2)NZS 4541: 2007 Automatic fire sprinkler Systems AS1 Amend: 1 Standards AustraliaAS 3786: 1993 Smoke alarms AS1 Amends: 1, 2, 3, 4 International Standards OrganisationISO 12239: 2003 Fire detection and fire alarm Systems AS1 smoke alarmsBritish Standards InstitutionBS EN 14604.