Automatic Fire Suppression System installations - traditional building conversion to hotels: cost benefit analysis

Footnotes

1. Cost benefit assessment is usually undertaken over the lifetime of a proposal, but proposals involving infrastructure and new buildings can be appraised over 60 years. The Green Book (2020) - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

2. Businesses in Scotland: 2023 - gov.scot (www.gov.scot)

3. Registered businesses are registered for VAT and/or PAYE. Unregistered businesses are the smallest businesses that have turnover below the VAT threshold (£85,000) and do not employ others.

4. Non Domestic Valuation – Scottish Assessors (saa.gov.uk)

5. This is a provisional figure.

6. BRE “The Effectiveness of Sprinklers in Residential Properties” 2004 for the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister (ODPM) Microsoft Word - Section1 Summary Report.doc (bregroup.com)

BRE “Cost Benefit Analysis for Residential Sprinklers in Scotland” 2009

BRE “Cost Benefit Analysis of Residential Sprinklers” for the Chief Fire Officers Association, 2012 Final Report no 264227 rev 1.1_PDF.doc (nfcc.org.uk)

Fire Sprinklers Association “An Appraisal of the ODPM BRE Report ‘The Effectiveness of Sprinklers in Residential Properties’” Microsoft Word - FSA Response to ODPM report.doc (firesprinklers.org.uk)

Optimal Economics “Cost Effectiveness of Sprinklers in Residential Properties” 2015

Department for Communities and Local Government (2011) “The Economic Cost of Fire: 2008”

7. “The Economic and Social Cost of Fire”, Home Office, 2023 Economic and social cost of fire - GOV.UK (www.gov.uk)

8. Calculated from information in Table M30.

9. “Efficiency and Effectiveness of Sprinkler Systems in the UK: An Analysis from Fire Service Data”, Optimal Economics, 2017 Optimal_Sprinkler_Report.pdf (nfcc.org.uk)

10. “Incidence of Deaths and Injuries in Sprinklered Buildings: A Supplementary Report”, National Fire Chiefs Council and National Fire Sprinkler Network, 2019 Efficiency_and_Effectiveness_of_Sprinkler_Systems_in_the_United_Kingdom-Supplementary_Report.pdf (plumis.co.uk)

11. The Economic Cost of Fire 2006 and 2008. Department for Communities and Local Government/

12. The HMT (2022) QALY value is £70,000.

13. Assumed to be 20% of rebuild costs per sq. m.

14. Direct costs are increased by 1.3 to all for wider costs such as business interruption, damage to contents etc.

15. Cost per sq m for a mid-range hotel from costmodelling.com