What is a protected stairway?

How many times have you heard the words 'protected stairway'?
Do you know what one is? It's easy to get used to terms that are thrown around the #firesafety industry day-in, day-out, but sometimes a quick reminder of the fundamentals is useful 🧠

Here's this week's #TwoMinuteTuesday (and yes, surprise, surprise - it is basically two minutes ⌚😅) If you want to catch more of these, head over to our YouTube channel, link in the comments 👇🏽

Finally, I promised to list the standards I referred to:

UK
- BS 476-21
- BS 476- 22
European equivalents
- BS EN 1363
- BS EN 1364
- BS EN 1365.

#fireengineering #fireprotection #fireandrescue #cpdtraining #architecture #construction

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[laetitiawebb]

I’m still none the wiser, how do you create a fire safe stairwell in an open plan setting?

[suchcone]

Thanks for this - just experienced a hotel fire where the staircase filled with smoke and entered the corridor. Trying to understand if this is acceptable or not. Thankfully there was one other fire exit staircase and the main staircase. See my latest "short" video for what I recorded.