Treatment of unused areas within the fire separation distance
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Case: In the unused area on the west side of the cabinet room in Utility Workshop 1, a fire separation distance of 10m is required, but the current distance is 9m – it is insufficient. Can this unused area be left as it is without demolition? If demolition is mandatory, can a firewall be installed to create a separation? If demolition is mandatory, won’t the part that is removed affect the entire building?
This depends on the opinions of the local emergency management department. Under normal circumstances, if it can indeed be ensured that no functional uses are assigned to the idle area (it remains empty most of the time, with perhaps only some tools of the Ding and Wu types stored there), then the fire separation distance can be measured from the eastern edge of the utility workshops to the western side of the cabinet room. ）