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Sauna

it is a hot air sauna, where the temperature is usually between 80°C and 120°C, and the heat source is some heated surface (eg an electrically heated oven). This sauna may also include a furnace room and adjacent bathrooms.

Service rooms

These are the premises, equipped with kitchens, buffets with equipment for cooking hot food, storerooms, post offices and storages of valuables, stock warehouses, workshops (except for workshops located in machinery rooms), other premises of similar purpose and their shafts

Slow fire spread

the spread of fire across a surface that adequately controls the rate of fire spread as established by the Fire Resistance Test Methodology Code

Special purpose premises

are separated spaces above or below the bulkhead deck to which vehicles can enter and exit and to which passengers are allowed to enter. Special purpose rooms can be located on more than one deck if the total free height of these rooms for vehicles does not exceed 10 m.

Standard test for fire resistance

It is a test applied to samples of relevant bulkheads or decks by heating them in a test furnace to a temperature approximating the standard time-temperature curve in accordance with the method specified in the Code of Practice for Fire Resistance Tests.

Steel or equivalent material

It is any non-flammable material which, by itself or because of the insulation covering it, when tested in a standard fire resistance test, retains structural and fire resistance properties equivalent to steel to the end of the test period specified for that material (e.g., such material may be a properly insulated aluminum alloy).