Alan Brinson, European Fire Sprinkler Network Executive Director, reports fire sprinkler requirements have been adopted in the Czech Republic for the following new construction:

1) Apartment buildings or hotels higher than 30m.
2) Retail premises with a fire compartment larger than 1,000m2.
3) Exhibition halls with a fire compartment larger than 5,000m2.
4) Underground automatic car parks if quick and adequate intervention by the fire service is impossible.
5) Second and lower underground floors of multi-storey underground car parks with a capacity of more than 50 vehicles.
6) Car parks with a capacity of more than 200 cars that are beneath public assembly buildings such as cinemas and conference centres.
7) Stage areas of theatres in some circumstances.
8) Storage of flammable liquids under some circumstances.