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In 2006 Communities and Local Government (CLG) Sustainable Buildings Division commissioned BRE to carry out a three year project titled Fire Spread in Car Parks. The existing guidance for fire safety in car parks in England and Wales is in Approved Document B (Fire safety) to the Building Regulations in England and Wales (AD B). The basis for this guidance for fire safety strategies in car parks relates to fire initiation and fire growth involving cars whose designs are decades old. There has been increasing concern about the consequences of fires in car parks associated with modern car design (e.g. plastic fuel tanks) and how these fires may spread to other vehicles parked adjacently and nearby. This concern has been heightened by the entry into the market place of cars powered by alternative fuels such as LPG. Fires in car parks are rare, and, although there have been few deaths or injuries recorded to date in the UK, there are concerns regarding new and emerging risks from modern cars and alternative fuels. There was a need to gather up-to-date information on fires involving cars in car parks in order that the current fire safety guidance could be reviewed and, if necessary, updated. The overall aim of the project has therefore been to gather information on the nature of fires involving the current design of cars and to use this new knowledge as a basis, if necessary, for updating current guidance in AD B (and possibly other Approved Documents) on fire safety strategies for car parks. This report describes the project, the findings and conclusions.

Fire behavior. --- Fire spread. --- Garages. --- Parking facilities. --- Vehicles.

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