AS 2118.1:2017 PDF
AS 2118.1 2017 specifies general requirements for the design, installation and commissioning of automatic fire sprinkler systems in buildings. KEYWORDS: Fire sprinkler system standards.
This Standard was prepared by the Standards Australia Committee FP-004, Automatic Sprinkler Installations, to supersede AS 2118.1—2006.
This Standard incorporates Amendment No. 1 (December 2017). The changes required by the Amendment are indicated in the text by a marginal bar and amendment number against the clause, note, table, figure or part thereof affected.
The objective of this edition is to include changes that reflect recent advances in technology and to refine the content for clarity and conciseness.
Changes to this edition are the following:
(a) Incorporation of amendments to the 2006 edition.
(b) Section 12—now Section 14, Hydraulic calculation methods.
(c) Significant changes to Section 3 concerning exposure protection, and to Section 5 relating to protection of concealed spaces.
(d) Section 9, Light Hazard class systems, entirely rewritten to include more useable and up-to-date parameters for the design of this class of system.
(e) New Sections 11, 12 and 13 (High Hazard).
(f) Expanded definitions clause.
(g) Inclusion of informative text for occupancy classification (Appendix A).
