The Fire Engineering Brief (FEB) process

Fire safety design solutions

Your project needs to comply with the building codes fire safety design requirements clauses C1 to C6.

Designs complying in full with a recognised Acceptable Solution compliance document are not subject to the FEB process.

You will need to follow the FEB process if your project has fire safety design solutions that:

• include an alternative design by a fire engineer that is not in accordance with the Acceptable Solutions published by Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment
• involve the Verification Method C/VM2 (PDF 1MB).

Our Fire Protection Guidance AC1826 document provides advice on the consent process for applications involving fire design requirements.

Refer to AC1826 before you undertake a design that incorporates an "alternative design" solution. With alternative solutions you have to demonstrate, in your application, how your design will meet the performance requirements of the building code.

Your designer or engineer can also provide advice on following the FEB process.

​Auckland Council position statement for the acceptance of fire stopping

How to start the FEB process

You can submit FEB documentation by email.

You can also request pre-application guidance, request a meeting, and submit documentation to start the FEB process.