Refer below for key points to ensure that doors are installed correctly.
Australian fire door standards.
1 on every door leading into a fire stair from the inside the building including from a carpark corridor plant room or roof.
Locks used on exit doors which also include fire doors and path of travel doors are governed by building codes of australia bca ordinance d2 21.
Fire safety door do not obstruct do not keep open for use in states other than new south wales.
Fire door locks must be self latching and be fire rated in accordance with as1905 1.
By law there are very specific locking requirements required for exit doors.
This fire separation includes the installation of a fire door as the main entrance.
While security doors are not specifically identified in any technical document the australian standard.
The process of installing fire doors must comply with the current national standards and requirements set out by the building code of australia and the relevant australian standards as 1905 1 and as1530 4.
Fire doors must only be fitted with door hardware fire rated in accordance with as1905 1.
Security doors and fire doors of sole occupancy units in buildings containing two or more separate units each unit must be fire separated.
Fire door locks must be self latching and are not permitted to have a hold open feature.
This isgn is required in the following locations.
Fire doors building means a fixed structure that is wholly or partly enclosed by walls and is roofed and includes a floating building and any part of a building but does not include a a single dwelling house being either a detached dwelling house or a town terrace row villa or like house attached to another such house or other such houses only by a wall on 1 or more of its.
It is also a requirement in queensland that a bsa licensed person or company installs and certifies fire door sets.
It is an offence to prop open or otherwise interfere with the automatic closing action of a fire door.
Fire doors must also be fitted with an as1905 1 fire rated automatic door closer.
Bca building code of australia requires that all fire doors be installed in accordance with the australian standard as nzs 1905 1 2005.
Locks must be fitted at a height of between 900mm and 1100mm from the finished floor level.