Fire Protection Principles in Heritage Buildings

Kidd (2005) and Maxwell (2007) recommended that all fire protection improvements in heritage buildings should follow the following principles:

1	Essential	The fire systems should be central to meeting the objectives of the protection of life, buildings and contents.
2	Appropriate to Risk	Any system that is installed should be opposite to risks being considered.
3	Compliant with legislation	Systems should be installed according to demonstrable performance-based and other legislatively prescribed standards of safety.
4	Minimally invasive	The retrospective fitting of fire systems should involve minimal degrees of physical intervention on the historic structure.
5	Sensitively integrated	Installed systems should be designed to be integrated sympathetically with the historic fabric and its detail.
6	Reversible	Fire systems should be installed according to a reversible, ‘plug-in, plug-out’ installation philosophy.