Large Tower Block, Emergency light cable type

[YoungBart]

Evening all,

I'm having a debate at work regarding the wiring of emergency Lighting in the landlords area's for a 10 storey block of flats. The emergency lighting is integral to the standard lighting (So no separate em lights other than above doors)

Person 1 (me) - The cabling should be MICC or firetuff or the such For firefighting safety

Person 2 - LSF T&E In metal cable basket tray is be fine.

Who's right? Am I being old fashioned and overly cautious?

 

[andyb]

Evening all,

I'm having a debate at work regarding the wiring of emergency Lighting in the landlords area's for a 10 storey block of flats. The emergency lighting is integral to the standard lighting (So no separate em lights other than above doors)

Person 1 (me) - The cabling should be MICC or firetuff or the such For firefighting safety

Person 2 - LSF T&E In metal cable basket tray is be fine.

Who's right? Am I being old fashioned and overly cautious?

Person 3 - No special requirements.

 

[tazz]

If emergency lights are self contained each with their own battery, then person 2 is correct...keeping cables supported

 

[Harni]

Two different systems. Self contained and central back up. If its central backup, you want fire protected cable because obviously that cable is being used to keep them lights lit. If however its self contained, its a fully fail safe system so it doesn't matter if the supply cable burns. In fact, its almost a good thing in a odd way as as soon as that cable burns through, the lights come on.
Obviously all cabling regardless of type needs to be fixed correctly.

 

[Farmelectrics]

Person 2 wins lol

 

[YoungBart]

Person 2 wins lol

Ah Bugger!! Can't some of you just pretend I'm right?

Thanks for the Replies guys, It would be a Contained system, So I guess LSF would do.

Harni, I see where you're coming from, never really thought of it like that though.