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Decoding roof voids
Following on from his seminar presentation at this year’s Fire Safety Event, held in April at Birmingham’s NEC, Dr. Karthick Govarthanam, FIREFLY®
General Manager for , explores some of the issues surrounding fire risk in roof voids. W
e have been assured in recent years by mainstream media that our firefighters’ main role nowadays is in educating the public as to the risks they face in their homes and installing smoke alarms. Yet the UK fire and rescue services were called out to 627,553 incidents out of which 67,014 of those involved primary fires in the year ending 2022. Between 2006 and 2008, at least 10,000 of these primary fires originated from the attic occurring in pubs, care homes and schools. Under fire conditions, smoke can travel at an alarming rate of 120 to 420 feet per minute. It’s no surprise, then, that 57% of all fire-related fatalities occur outside the room where the fire started, according to insurance giant Aviva. It is crucial then that Building Control Officers and others responsible for overseeing
alterations in premises such as care homes and apartment buildings, turn their attention to roof hazards – with the most common being faulty
electrical wiring, ceiling insulation,
flammable roofing materials and leaky roofs. The latter could cause electrical wirings in the ceiling or attic to malfunction. Indeed, 41% of fire-related deaths in Great Britain were caused by the victim being overcome by gas, smoke or toxic fumes – and it can take as little as 2½ minutes for a home to be entirely engulfed in flames. To mitigate against these lethal risks there are of course legislative requirements governed through the building regulations. These regulations state that there should be a means of warning and escape, both horizontal and vertical with details on, for example, where a cavity barrier should be sited to ensure a protected stairway enclosure remains safe – especially relevant to flats and HMOs. In fact,
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