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FIRE SERVICE AND GENERAL FIRE SAFETY TOPICS => Fire Safety => Topic started by: Geoff on July 15, 2009, 09:01:52 AM

Title: BS 1703-2005
Post by: Geoff on July 15, 2009, 09:01:52 AM

Hi,

I'm hoping that someone can help me with this, we are looking at upgrading the fire protection in our refuse chutes in some of our high rise flats and I believe that the above BS deals with that. I was hoping that someone could give me the bare bones of what it recommends before I go and buy it, as it might give me an idea of likely costs, etc, and whether we actually need to do it.

Any answers gratfully received.

Geoff

Title: Re: BS 1703-2005
Post by: Peter Wilkinson on July 16, 2009, 10:16:48 PM

Well, it goes something like this...

Specifies requirements for gravity transport systems for refuse in multi-storey buildings, consisting of refuse chutes in the form of one or more vertical pipes, complete with hoppers, receiving refuse from successive floors in a building and discharging it into a refuse storage system.