Building construction type
Explosives: update
The UK has left the EU, and some rules and procedures have changed from 1 January 2021.
Hazard Type 1 – Tables 1, 2, 3, 4, and 5
| Description of building | Building construction type | Table |
|---|---|---|
| Aspects of a brick-built building that are mounded | Brick built mounded. | 1 |
| Aspects of a brick-built building that are not mounded | Brick built unmounded. | 2 |
| Aspects of a concrete-built that are mounded | Brick built mounded. | 1 |
| Aspects of a concrete-built that are not mounded | Brick built not mounded (Table 2). | 2 |
| Earth over-mounded building of brick or concrete construction | Metal built mounded on over-mounded aspects. | 3 |
| Brick built not mounded on aspects that are not over mounded. | 2 | |
| Aspects of a steel-built store, with or without attached detonator annex, that are mounded Metal built mounded. |
3 | |
| Aspects of a steel-built store, with attached detonator annex that are not mounded | Metal built unmounded. | 5 |
| Aspects of a steel-built store, without attached detonator annex (or attached detonator annex not used) that are not mounded | Metal built unmounded with no detonator annex attached, | 4 |
| Aspects of a building of steel/concrete/steel sandwich hardened construction that are mounded. | Metal built mounded with no detonator annex attached | 3 |
| Aspects of a building of steel/concrete/steel sandwich hardened construction that are not mounded | Metal built unmounded with no detonator annex attached | 4 |
| Aspects of a steel-framed warehouse-type building having a roof of lightweight sheeting and walls entirely of lightweight sheeting that are mounded | Metal built mounded | 3 |
| Aspects of a steel-framed warehouse-type building having a roof of lightweight sheeting and walls entirely of lightweight sheeting, that are not mounded | Metal built unmounded | 4 |
| Aspects of a steel-framed warehouse-type building having a roof of lightweight sheeting and walls entirely of lightweight sheeting, any brick construction being no more than one metre high that are mounded | Metal built mounded | 3 |
| Aspects of a steel-framed warehouse-type building having a roof of lightweight sheeting and walls entirely of lightweight sheeting, any brick construction being no more than one metre high, that are not mounded | Metal built unmounded with no detonator attached | 4 |
| Aspects of a steel-framed warehouse-type building having a roof of lightweight sheeting and walls entirely of lightweight sheeting, but having brick-built construction more than one metre high, that are mounded. | Brick built mounded | 1 |
| Aspects of a steel-framed warehouse-type building having roof of lightweight sheeting and walls entirely of lightweight sheeting, but having brick-built construction more than one metre high, that are not mounded. | Brick built unmounded | 2 |
| Aspects of a unit risk construction process building, lightweight front and roof, that are mounded | Metal built, mounded | 3 |
| Aspects of a unit risk construction process building, lightweight front and roof, that are not mounded | Metal built unmounded with no detonator annex attached | 4 |
| Aspects of a wooden-built building that are mounded | Metal built mounded | 3 |
| Aspects of a wooden-built, building that are not mounded | Metal built unmounded – no detonator annex attached | 4 |
| Other – vulnerable building used for the manufacture or storage of explosives. | Requires assessment by a competent person. | - |
| Other – non-vulnerable building used for the manufacture or storage of explosives. | Requires assessment by a competent person. | - |
| Other – not a built structure used for the storage or manufacture of explosives. | Treat as metal built. | - |
| Other – none of the above used for the manufacture or storage of explosives. | Requires assessment by a competent person. | - |