Scotland | Changes to the Technical Handbooks
Changes came into force on 1 April 2021.
The following is a summary of the changes – very minor changes to text have not been included here:
- Standard 0.8 – completely re-written for the CPR.
- Standard 0.9 – change to the name of Section 4, Safety and Section 6, Energy to reflect Construction Product Regulation requirements.
- Regulation 3, Type 1 of schedule 1 – updated to reflect the replacement of the Explosive Regulations 2005 by the 2014 version.
- Regulation 5, Type 23A of schedule 3 – introduction of new building type 23A for detached single-storey buildings used for shelter or sleeping in connection with recreation.
- Regulation 9 – updated for new building type 23A in schedule 3 to regulation 5.
And:
Standard 2.15
Every building must be designed and constructed in such a way that, in the event of an outbreak of fire within the building, fire growth will be inhibited by the operation of an automatic fire suppression system.
Limitation:
This standard applies only to a building which:
- is an enclosed shopping centre
- is a residential care building
- deliberately blank
- forms the whole or part of a sheltered housing complex
- is a school building other than a building forming part of an existing school or an extension to a school building where it is not reasonably practical to install an automatic fire suppression system in that building or extension
- is a building containing a flat or maisonette
- is a social housing dwelling, or
- is a shared multi-occupancy residential building
Find Building standards technical handbook 2020: domestic here and Building standards technical handbook 2020: non-domestic here