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NZBC C4.4 - basis of not requiring visiblity to be maintained

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From: Geoff Merryweather

Dear Ministry of Business, Innovation & Employment,

The NZ Building code has performance criteria to allow for safe evacuation, in particular
C4.3 The evacuation time must allow occupants of a building to move to a place of safety in the event of a fire so that occupants are not exposed to any of the following:
(a) a fractional effective dose of carbon monoxide greater than 0.3:
(b) a fractional effective dose of thermal effects greater than 0.3:
(c) conditions where, due to smoke obscuration, visibility is less than 10 m except in rooms of less than 100 m2 where visibility may fall to 5 m.
C4.4 Clause C4.3(b) and (c) do not apply where it is not possible to expose more than 1 000 occupants in a firecell protected with an automatic fire sprinkler system.
Can you provide any calculations, risk assessments or supporting documentation that was used to justify the allowance in C4.4 where visibility and thermal radiation do not apply.
In particular any calculations, reports or references with regard to risk to life and any consideration whether this should apply all risk or purpose groups, any building height or consideration if the sprinklers would activate in time to be effective.

Yours faithfully,

Geoff Merryweather

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