FOCUS
Access and control Mark Pollard looks at the significant role
played by compartmentation and examines its importance for the police and fire services
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OMPARTMENTATION IS the subdivision of larger developments of multiple flats, bedsits or bedrooms into
manageable areas for the protection of the building’s residents. For the fire and rescue service, this is a question of fi re doors preventing the spread of fi re and smoke to provide one of the most effective elements of a building’s passive fire protection. Compartmentation also enables residents to escape in the event of a fire or other emergency, whilst providing fi re offi cers with unrestricted access. For the police, it’s a matter of providing
controlled access to authorised residents and visitors from the main communal entrance, through secure internal doors, to the front doors of individual fl ats. The purpose of this is to stop opportunist criminals and undesirable callers from being able to commit crime and/or engage in antisocial behaviour within the building.
Partnership working
The coming together in 2015 of Part Q (Security), alongside the longer established
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Part B (Fire) of the Building Regulations, meant that these regulations carry equal weighting. This has had major implications for the police and fire services, who have been working together to achieve practical solutions in order to overcome possible confl icts between fi re and security. It is also an important change for the construction industry, local authorities and approved inspectors, all of whom need to make sure that fire and security work alongside each other. Secured by Design (SBD), which seeks
to design out crime by working with architects, developers and local authority planners at the planning stage, has included all of its security advice, with the full approval of the fire service, in its development guide SBD Homes 2016. This guide is available online at www.
securedbydesign.com/industry-advice- and-guides In the residential sector, the fire and
security regulations are most likely to come together in developments of flats, which use many different types of doorsets,including for main entrances;
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