Building Fire Integrity ("BFI")

Building Fire Integrity is a term used in the Building Code of Australia and within the Schedule 8 of the Building Regulations (Vic) 2018 to describe a range of essential safety measures that include;

1. Building elements required to satisfy prescribed fire-resistance levels;
2. Materials and assemblies required to have fire hazard properties;
3. Elements required to be non-combustible, provide fire protection, compartmentation or separation;
4. Wall-wetting sprinklers (including doors and windows required in conjunction with wall-wetting sprinklers);
5. Fire doors (including sliding fire doors and their associated warning systems) and associated self-closing, automatic closing and latching mechanisms;
6. Fire windows (including windows that are automatic or permanently fixed in the closed position);
7. Fire shutters;
8. Solid core doors and associated self-closing, automatic closing and latching mechanisms;
9. Fire-protection at service penetrations through elements required to be fire-resisting with respect to integrity or insulation, or to have a resistance to the incipient spread of fire;
10. Fire protection associated with construction joints, spaces and the like in and between building elements required to be fire-resisting with respect to integrity and insulation;
11. Smoke doors and associated self-closing, automatic closing and latching mechanisms;
12. Proscenium walls (including proscenium curtains).