SVENSK STANDARD

SS-INSTA 952:2019
Publicerad/Published: 2019-07-11
Utgåva/Edition: 1
Språk/Language: engelska/English
ICS: 13.220.01

Brandteknik – Granskning och kontroll i byggprocessen

Fire safety engineering – Review and control in the building

process

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Foreword .......................................................................................................................................................................... v
Introduction....................................................................................................................................................................vi
1 Scope ....................................................................................................................................................................... 1
2 Normative references ....................................................................................................................................... 1
3 Terms and definitions....................................................................................................................................... 1
4 Description of the phases of the building process.................................................................................. 5
4.1 General....................................................................................................................................................................... 5
4.2 Planning and design phase ................................................................................................................................ 6
4.2.1 Fire safety strategy and design concept ...................................................................................................... 6
4.2.2 Detailed design....................................................................................................................................................... 6
4.2.3 Building permit ...................................................................................................................................................... 6
4.3 Construction phase............................................................................................................................................... 6
4.3.1 Building and construction ................................................................................................................................. 6
4.3.2 Approval ................................................................................................................................................................... 7
4.4 Operation and maintenance phase ................................................................................................................ 7
4.5 Control and review of fire safety aspects .................................................................................................... 7
5 Fire safety design within the building process ........................................................................................ 8
5.1 General....................................................................................................................................................................... 8
5.2 The fire safety design process.......................................................................................................................... 9
5.2.1 General....................................................................................................................................................................... 9
5.2.2 Qualitative design review ............................................................................................................................... 10
5.2.3 Verification of fire safety engineering methods .................................................................................... 10
5.2.4 Design review ...................................................................................................................................................... 10
5.3 Documentation and communication.......................................................................................................... 11
5.3.1 General.................................................................................................................................................................... 11
5.3.2 Fire safety drawings.......................................................................................................................................... 11
5.3.3 Model-based information ............................................................................................................................... 11
5.3.4 Communication with other stakeholders ................................................................................................ 12
5.4 Detailed design.................................................................................................................................................... 12
6 Review and control in the planning and design phase ...................................................................... 13
6.1 General.................................................................................................................................................................... 13
6.2 Purpose .................................................................................................................................................................. 13
6.3 Extent of review .................................................................................................................................................. 13
6.3.1 General.................................................................................................................................................................... 13
6.3.2 Choosing the level of control ......................................................................................................................... 13
6.3.3 Initiation and timing of review ..................................................................................................................... 14
6.4 Peer review contents ........................................................................................................................................ 15
6.5 Peer reviewer qualifications ......................................................................................................................... 17
6.6 Procedure for a third-party peer review .................................................................................................. 17
6.6.1 Level of review .................................................................................................................................................... 17
6.6.2 Communication between a peer reviewer and a designer ............................................................... 18
6.7 Peer review documentation .......................................................................................................................... 18
6.8 Review and control of the documentation of other disciplines ...................................................... 18

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7.1 General.................................................................................................................................................................... 18
7.2 Inspection and testing plan (ITP) ................................................................................................................ 18
7.3 Procedure .............................................................................................................................................................. 19
7.3.1 General.................................................................................................................................................................... 19
7.3.2 Consultation with builder and local authority ....................................................................................... 20
7.3.3 Start-up meeting with construction management ............................................................................... 20
7.3.4 Normative controls............................................................................................................................................ 20
7.3.5 Field changes and deviations ........................................................................................................................ 21
7.3.6 Final control ......................................................................................................................................................... 21
7.4 Integrated system testing ............................................................................................................................... 21
7.5 Compliance verification................................................................................................................................... 22
7.6 As-built documentation ................................................................................................................................... 22
7.7 Fire prevention on construction sites ....................................................................................................... 22
8 Review and control during the operation and maintenance phase .............................................. 22
8.1 Process.................................................................................................................................................................... 22
8.2 Operation and maintenance plan ................................................................................................................ 23
8.3 Alterations and renovations .......................................................................................................................... 23
Annex A (informative) Nationally determined parameters....................................................................... 25
Annex B (informative) Details of full control of the fire safety design documentation (fire safety
strategy).............................................................................................................................................................. 26
Annex C (informative) Example of a checklist for control of detailed design and the other
construction documents of other disciplines ........................................................................................ 29
Annex D (informative) Example of an inspection and testing plan for the construction phase ... 31
Annex E (informative) Example of instructions for operation and maintenance .............................. 34
Annex F (informative) Control systems within the Nordic Countries .................................................... 36
F.1 General.................................................................................................................................................................... 36
F.2 Denmark ................................................................................................................................................................ 36
F.3 Finland .................................................................................................................................................................... 36
F.4 Iceland .................................................................................................................................................................... 36
F.5 Norway ................................................................................................................................................................... 37
F.6 Sweden ................................................................................................................................................................... 37
Bibliography ................................................................................................................................................................. 39

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This document has been prepared by a committee representing the Inter-Nordic Standardization
Cooperation, called INSTA Fire Safety Design, the secretariat of which is held by Norway.

This document shall be given the status of a national technical specification in Denmark, Finland,
Iceland, Norway and Sweden, either by publication of an identical text or by endorsement, at the latest
by December 2019.

This document gives alternative procedures, values and recommendations for classes with notes
indicating where national choices can be made. Thus, the national technical specification may include a
national annex containing all Nationally Determined Parameters to be used for the design of buildings
and civil engineering works that are to be constructed in the relevant country.

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In fire safety design, compliance with fire safety regulations can be demonstrated by either using pre-
accepted solutions that are defined by the building authorities, or by using fire safety engineering
methods.

This document describes the review and control of fire safety design in the building process and
includes both design alternatives. It is inspired by previous Nordic work (NKB, 1994) [8], work
conducted by ISO/TC 92/SC 4 on fire safety engineering and SFPE Guidelines (SFPE, 2007 and 2009)
[13] [12]. Clauses 4 and 5 provide a general description of the phases and the fire safety design within
the building process.

The aim is to facilitate verification of building solutions including innovative and sustainable solutions
and to harmonize the process for control within the field of fire safety engineering in the Nordic
countries. This document is intended to be used as a reference document for building authorities and
for use in connection with regulations by designers, local authorities and stakeholders in the building
industry.

Nationally determined parameters, procedures, values and recommendations for the use of this
document may be stipulated in National Annex A.

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Fire Safety Engineering — Review and Control in the

Building Process

1 Scope
This document specifies when and how to conduct reviews and controls within the field of fire safety
design from planning and design to construction and, finally, operation and maintenance.

This document describes reviews and controls, independent of national regulations in the Nordic
countries, with a primary focus on technical issues within fire safety engineering. It describes how the
fire safety design process, including engineering approaches, forms a normal part of the overall control
and review of the building process and defines eligibility criteria for the parties performing the controls.

2 Normative references
The following documents are referred to in the text in such a way that some or all of their content
constitutes the requirements of this document. For dated references, only the edition cited applies. For
undated references, the latest edition of the referenced document (including any amendments) applies.

EN-ISO 13943, Fire safety — Vocabulary

INSTA/TS 950, Fire safety engineering — Comparative method to verify fire safety design in buildings

3 Terms and definitions

For the purposes of this document, the following terms and definitions apply.

3.1
acceptance criteria
criteria that form the basis for assessing the acceptability of the safety of a design of a built environment

Note 1 to entry: The criteria can be qualitative, quantitative or a combination of both.

[SOURCE: EN-ISO 13943:2017]

3.2
approving body
organization, office or individual authorised to approve the design of a building

Note 1 to entry: Depending on national legislation, the approving body may be local or national authorities
or a privately held third party designer with the necessary notification. Alternatively, the companies responsible
for designing the building may be authorised to “approve” their own work.

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authority having jurisdiction

AHJ
organization, office or individual responsible for approving designs, equipment, installations, materials
and/or procedures

[SOURCE: SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection, 2nd edition [13]]

3.4
concept design
design that takes place after feasibility studies and options appraisals have been carried out and a
project brief has been prepared

Note 1 to entry: The concept design represents the design team’s initial response to the project brief.

3.5
contractor
company responsible for the physical construction of a building

Note 1 to entry: A turnkey contractor is also responsible for the design of the building. The contractor’s
company may hire sub-contractors for execution of tasks for which they themselves do not possess the necessary
resources or skills. Usually, the contractor or sub-contractor is obliged to procure all technical documentation for
building products and on-site control and hand it over to the building owner.

3.6
design objective
description of the performance benchmark against which the predicted performance of a design is
evaluated

[SOURCE: SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection, 2nd edition [13]]

3.7
design review
overall review process during the design

Note 1 to entry: See also “peer review”

[SOURCE: SFPE Guidelines for Peer Review in the Fire Protection Design Process [12]]

3.8
detailed design
process of taking on and developing the approved concept design

3.9
fire scenario
qualitative description of the course of a fire with respect to time, identifying key events that
characterize the studied fire and differentiate it from other possible fires

[SOURCE: EN-ISO 13943:2017, modified, notes to entry not included]

3.10
fire safety design
design of fire safety selected for implementation from the successful trial design

[SOURCE: SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection, 2nd edition, amended [13]]

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fire safety engineer

part of the design team engaged as either a sub-contracted engineer or directly by the contractor or
building owner

Note 1 to entry: Individual responsibility for ensuring a sufficient level of fire safety may be stipulated in
the National Annex A.

3.12
fire safety engineering
application of engineering methods to the development or assessment of designs in the built
environment through the analysis of specific fire scenarios or through the quantification of risk for a
group of fire scenarios

[SOURCE: EN-ISO 13943:2017]

3.13
fire safety design brief
summary of the agreed upon performance criteria and methods that will be used as a basis for the fire
safety design

[SOURCE: SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection, 2nd edition, amended [13]]

3.14
fire safety design documentation
description of the fire safety strategy including both the fire safety design brief and the complete
verification of sufficient safety based on the level of fire safety engineering aspects that have been
verified

Note 1 to entry: Based on SFPE Engineering Guide to Performance-Based Fire Protection, 2nd edition.

3.15
fire safety strategy
overriding plan for achieving specified fire safety goals

[SOURCE: NS 3901.E:2012]

3.16
peer review
evaluation of the conceptual and technical soundness of a design

[SOURCE: SFPE Guidelines for Peer Review in the Fire Protection Design Process [12]]

3.17
performance criteria
quantitative criteria which form an acceptable basis for assessing the safety of a design for a built
environment

Note 1 to entry: The performance criteria are usually ones that have been agreed by an authority having
jurisdiction or by codes or standardization committee.

[SOURCE: EN-ISO 13943:2017]