Ignitability and burning behaviour of materials and products (ICS 13.220.40)

DRS 186-4: 2018, Code of practice for fire safety of building — Part 4: Selection, installation and maintenance of automatic fire detection and alarm system (19 page(s), in English)

1.1 This standard covers the minimum requirements for planning, design, selection, installation and maintenance of fire detection and alarm systems..

1.2 It covers systems capable of providing signals to initiate, in the event of a fire, the operation of ancillary services, such as fire extinguishing systems and other necessary precautions but it does not cover the ancillary services. It covers fire detection and alarm system installed in buildings of different types including those installed in industries. 1.3 It is applicable to simple systems with a few manual call points as well as to complex installations comprising addressable control and indicating panel, non-addressable detectors, manual call points, control and indication panels.