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BS7671 and Serviced Apartments and Aparthotels

Sergio Fernandez

Can the terms be formally defined for BS7671 and BS5839 in a cohesive manner?
What is a Serviced Apartments 
What is a Aparthotels

As an example some people see Aparthotels as used for shorter term occupancy Caveat time hotel bedrooms do not usually include the cooking facilities thus impacted by BS5839 part 1 and 6


What happens IF building includes a combination of short term and long term occupancy?

Could/Would/Should serviced apartments be treated as High Risk Building?



As always please be polite and respectful in this purely academic debate.





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  • Its a lot more complicated than others have stated.

    You need to decide first if the premises are domestic (household) premises. AJJewsbury was almost right but an HRRB needs 2 or more of these in the building in addition to the 7 or more stories and 18m or more high.

    Are the individual premises owned or rented?

    The freeholder may not be responsible for the common areas, as with leashold premises under the right to manage legislation the lease holders can appoint their own managment company to carry out all the maintainance activities. 

    What should be in place for these buildings should be a fire strategy for the building produce by a fire engineer. Any changes, say to the electrical installtion such as adding EV charging or PV, would need the approval of the fire engineer. 

    There would also be an ongoing fire risk assessmnets under the Regulatory Reform(Fire Safety) Order 2005 for the common areas but not for individual flats.

    For HRRBs the requirements of the Building Safety Regulator would need to be applied. There are some good requirements on comptence of persons in the Building Safety Act. The BSR is not restricted to HRRBs but also other higher risk buildings.

    Local enforcing bodies and insurance companies requirements will need to be applied.

    Every building will have site specific requirements so there is no generic solution that can be applied for all buildings.

    Hope this helps?

    JP

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  • Its a lot more complicated than others have stated.

    You need to decide first if the premises are domestic (household) premises. AJJewsbury was almost right but an HRRB needs 2 or more of these in the building in addition to the 7 or more stories and 18m or more high.

    Are the individual premises owned or rented?

    The freeholder may not be responsible for the common areas, as with leashold premises under the right to manage legislation the lease holders can appoint their own managment company to carry out all the maintainance activities. 

    What should be in place for these buildings should be a fire strategy for the building produce by a fire engineer. Any changes, say to the electrical installtion such as adding EV charging or PV, would need the approval of the fire engineer. 

    There would also be an ongoing fire risk assessmnets under the Regulatory Reform(Fire Safety) Order 2005 for the common areas but not for individual flats.

    For HRRBs the requirements of the Building Safety Regulator would need to be applied. There are some good requirements on comptence of persons in the Building Safety Act. The BSR is not restricted to HRRBs but also other higher risk buildings.

    Local enforcing bodies and insurance companies requirements will need to be applied.

    Every building will have site specific requirements so there is no generic solution that can be applied for all buildings.

    Hope this helps?

    JP

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