Secondary suite projects tend to trigger the widest combination of Code requirements builders face — spatial separation, fire blocking, and alarm/detection all layered onto one build. This course gives BC home builders practical guidance on applying spatial separation rules between houses and buildings, where fire blocks are required and how to avoid the installation mistakes that commonly happen on site, and where smoke alarms are required, including how interconnection works and what additional requirements apply in secondary suites.
You'll also learn when broader fire alarm and detection system requirements come into play, then bring it all together through the combined requirements that commonly affect secondary suite projects.
At the end of this course, participants will be able to:
- Apply the limiting-distance concept to determine spatial separation requirements between houses and between buildings
- Identify where fire blocks are required and avoid common installation mistakes
- Determine where smoke alarms are required, apply interconnection requirements, and meet additional requirements that apply to secondary suites
- Recognize when broader fire alarm and detection system requirements apply
- Apply the combined spatial separation, fire block, and alarm/detection requirements that commonly affect secondary suite projects