Business Sprinkler Alliance

 

Fire sprinklers provide automatic and immediate onsite protection.

To make an informed choice, it is critical that organisations understand the risks and consider the benefits that fire sprinklers can bring to protecting industrial and commercial buildings. In doing so, they provide employee safety, business continuity and resilience that extends to the UK economy.

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Protect assets

Sprinklers protect occupants, firefighters, property, machinery and supplies.

Myths & Misconceptions
Protect assets
Save money

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Save money

Losses from fires in buildings protected by sprinklers are estimated to be only one sixth of those in unprotected buildings.

Cost of sprinklers
Reduced disruption

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Reduced disruption

Sprinklers reduce costs and disruption to the business and community.

Case studies

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Cost-effective installation

The average cost of installing a sprinkler system in a commercial or industrial building will be between £33 per square metre and £35 per square metre. 2

Cost of sprinklers
Cost-effective installation
Insurance discounts

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Insurance discounts

The combination of the reduced potential for loss and lower disruption will factor into fire insurance premiums.

Cost of sprinklers

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Design freedom

Sprinklers help reduce building costs through increased flexibility of internal layout and larger compartment sizes.

Myths & Misconceptions
Design freedom
Less water

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Less water

Sprinklers use much less water to extinguish a fire than fire brigade hoses – and so lead to much less water damage.

Myths & Misconceptions

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Environmental protection

Sprinklers protect the environment from damaging emissions of smoke or large amounts of contaminated water. 3

Case studies
Environmental protection

1 Efficiency and Effectiveness of Sprinkler Systems in the United Kingdom: An Analysis from Fire Service Data, NFSN, May 2017

2 An Environmental Impact and Cost Benefit Analysis for Fire Sprinklers in Warehouse Building, BRE Global, December 2013

3 Assessing the role of fire sprinklers, Bureau Veritas, August 2011

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