Republic of Latvia

Table 3

Number of places and storeys in pre-school educational institutions

Number of places in the building	Fire safety level of the building	Maximum permissible number of storeys
up to 50	4., 5. and 3.a	1
up to 100	3.b	1
up to 150	3.	2
up to 350	1. and 2.	2 and 3

Table 4

Number of places and storeys in comprehensive schools, secondary special schools, music and art schools, vocational schools and other schools

Number of pupils, students or places in the building	Fire safety level of the building, not lower than	Maximum permissible number of storeys
up to 270	3.a and 5.	1
	4.	2
up to 350	3.b	2
up to 1600	3.	3
not restricted	1. and 2.	3 and 4

Table 5

Number of places and storeys in dormitory room blocks of boarding schools and children’s homes

Number of pupils, students or places in the building	Fire safety level of the building, not lower than	Maximum permissible number of storeys
up to 80	4. or 5.	1
140	3.a or 3.b	1
up to 200	3.	3
up to 280	3.	1
not restricted	1. or 2.	3, 4

Table 6
Number of storeys and number of stationary spectators’ seats in halls

Building or structure	Fire safety level of the building, not lower than	Maximum permissible number of storeys	Number of seats in the hall
Cinema operating continually	5.	1	up to 300
	3.a, 4.	2*	up to 400
	3., 3.b	2* , 2* *	up to 600
	2., 1.	not restricted	over 600
Seasonal (summer) roofed cinema	3.a, 4., 5.	1	up to 600
	3., 3.b	1	over 600
Seasonal (summer) open cinema	not restricted	1	over 600
	3., 3.b	1	up to 600
Theatre	2., 1.	not restricted
Other cultural and entertainment institutions	5.	1* * *	up to 300
	3.a, 4.	2*	up to 400
	3., 3.b	3* , 3* *	up to 600
	2., 1.	not restricted	over 600

* in buildings at fire safety levels 3.a, 3b and 4 auditoriums shall be located on the first floor but in recreational centres and club buildings at fire safety levels 3 and 3b— not higher than the second floor.

* * In buildings at fire safety level 3b with wooden slab elements there may be up to 600 seats in the auditorium if such walls, columns, stairs and intermediate floors conform to the building fire safety level of 2.
* * * Buildings of fire safety level 5 at recreational centres and clubs with auditoriums (up to 300 seats) on the first floor may be designed as two-storied if the walls of these buildings are not readily combustible.
Note. If a cinema, which operates continuously forms a block with a seasonal (summer) cinema and the fire safety levels are different between them, the cinemas shall be separated with a type-2 fire resistant wall.

Table 7
Distance to emergency exit from a hall for public events without stationary seating

Type of use of a hall for public events	Fire safety level of the building	Maximum distance (m) to the closest emergency exit if the hall’s volume is (thousand m^3)
		up to 5	5–10	over 10
1. Waiting room, box-office room, exhibition hall,	1., 2.	30	45	55
dance hall or recreational hall	3., 3.b, 4.	20	30	–
	3.a, 4.a, 5.	15	–	–
2. Dining room or reading room the area of the principal emergency route of which is not less than 0.2 m^2 per each person to be evacuated	1., 2.	65	–	–
	3., 3.b, 4.	45	–	–
	3.a, 4.a, 5.	30	–	–
3. Trading premises the area of the principal emergency route of which is not less than 25% of the total area of the room	1., 2.	50	65	80
	3., 3.b, 4.	35	45
	3.a, 4.a, 5.	25	–	–
4. Trading premises the area of the principal emergency route of which is less than 25% of the total area of the room	1., 2.	25	30	35
	3., 3.b, 4.	15	20	–
	3.a, 4.a, 5.	10	–	–