Report: Effectiveness of sprinklers in residential premises
Report of BRE project commissioned ODPM to carry out a study on the effectiveness of sprinklers in residential premises
- To analyse statistical information to determine how effective they have been in reducing life loss and property damage
- To make a risk-based assessment to determine potential benefits for the UK housing sector, including dwellings, HMOs, flats and maisonettes of varying heights
- To collect data on the benefits and costs of residential sprinklers
- To establish benchmark fire tests for UK conditions to support the further development of British Standard Drafts for Development 251 and 252, and
- To carry out an experimental programme to examine and quantify the effectiveness in fire suppression of residential sprinklers, in particular with regards to life safety in the room of origin.
- Executive summary
- Summary Report
- Contents
- Project description
- Pilot study
- Benchmark tests
- Experimental programme
- Cost benefit analysis
- Other considerations and recommendations for further work
- Appendix 5A House fires test data
- Appendix 5B House fires photographs
- Appendix 5C House fires optical density, visibility and fractional effective dose
- Appendix 5D House fires summary of temperatures and fractional effective dose
- Appendix 5E Compartment fires photographs
- Appendix 5F Compartment fires temperatures, gas concentrations, optical transmittance, smoke alarm activations and water flow rate
- Appendix 5G Compartment fires fractional effective dose, optical density, visibility and temperatures
- Appendix 5H Compartment fires summary of temperatures and fractional effective dose
- Appendix 5I Calorimetry fires heat release rate versus time