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Legislación Portugal

SCIE –  Regime Jurídico da Segurança Contra Incêndio em Edifícios

Decreto Lei no. 220/2008

Technical Fire Safety Regulations in Buildings

ANEPC – Autoridad Nacional de Emergencias y Protección Civil

Portugal automatic sprinkler extinguishing systems must be used in:

  1. Car parks higher than 9 m or larger than 9500 m2 or with one or more floors below the reference plane.
  1. All floors of automatic car parks.
  1. Offices higher than 28 m or with an occupation higher than 1000 people.
  1. Spaces for shows and public assemblies equal or higher than 28 m, with one or more floors below the reference plane, with an occupation higher than 1000 people; In these spaces it also must be used in stages and substages up to 50 m2 and with a deluge system when higher than 50 m2
  1. Hotels higher than 9 m, with an occupation higher than 500 people or 200 depending on the assessment of some risk locations.
  1. Commercial spaces and transport facilities higher than 9 m, with one or more floors below the reference plane or with an occupation higher than 1000 people; There may be some exceptions to these cases.
  1. Industrial spaces and warehouses with a modified fire load density higher than 5000 MJ/m2 or with more than one floor below the reference plane.
  1. Places adjacent to interior open areas with a height greater than 20m.
  1. Places which are difficult to access, to be decided on a case by case basis by the fire authorities.
  1. In existing transforming stations that use flammable liquid dielectric, either in transformers or in cutting devices and whose location is not in accordance with the regulation, as a compensatory and duly justified measure.
  1. In openings in walls or floors resistant to fire crossed by mobile means of transport, straps or screens, as a compensatory and duly justified measure.
  1. At the places of manufacture, storage or handling of products not reacting dangerously with water, as a compensatory and duly justified measure.
  1. In flammable liquid or gas deposits, as a compensatory and duly justified measure.
  1. In areas intended for painting or applying varnishes, glues or organic solvents with a flash point below 55 ° C, in building spaces with an area greater than 30 m2.
  1. In industrial equipment and in all existing locations that cannot fully comply with the passive measures indicated in the regulation.