DIN Standards Committee Firefighting and Fire Protection
Fire detection and fire alarm systems - Part 14: Guidelines for planning, design, installation, commissioning, use and maintenance
Abstract
This document provides guidelines for the application of automatic fire detection and fire alarm systems in and around buildings and civil engineering works. The guideline covers planning, design, installation, commissioning and verification, third party approval, use and maintenance of the systems. The guidelines cover systems intended for the protection of life and/or the protection of property. The guidelines cover systems with a control and indicating equipment and at least one manual call point or one fire detector. In the event of a fire, the systems may be capable of providing signals to initiate the operation of ancillary equipment (such as fixed fire extinguishing systems, smoke and heat control systems, fire compartment separation) and other precautions and actions (such as machinery shutdown or remote transmission of alarms). These guidelines do not cover the ancillary services themselves or ancillary circuits to interface with them. The guidelines only cover the fire related functions of systems combining fire alarm functions with other non-fire related functions. The guidelines do not recommend whether or not a fire detection and/or fire alarm system should be installed in any given premises. This document can be used as a guideline for planning, design, installation, commissioning, use and maintenance of a fire detection and fire alarm system in any country not having any equivalent national standard, or if national equivalent standard is obsolete or not covering certain aspects, e.g. new fire detection technologies. These guidelines should be used by appropriately competent persons. However, guidance is also given to other persons purchasing or using a fire detection and/or fire alarm system. Smoke alarms manufactured to EN 14604, whether interconnected or not, are not fire detection and fire alarm systems as covered in these guidelines.
Begin
2023-07-07
WI
00072175
Planned document number
DIN CEN/TS 54-14
Project number
03101440
