The LPC Design Guide provides guidance on the principles of passive fire protection in connection with property protection and other aspects of business risk management. It includes sections on:
 Contribution to fire growth
 Compartmentation of buildings - see Protected Zones and Compartmentation & Insurers
 External fire spread
 Recommendations for cost effective fire protection of industrial and commercial buildings for property protection, and preventing significant business interruption.

The document is applicable to all new non-domestic buildings, major extensions and the refurbishment and upgrading of many existing buildings.
It strongly recommends early and close liaison between client, building designer and insurer, to make due provisions for the all-important protection of the business in fire.

Strategy
The principles and basic strategy are:
 Wherever practicable, contain the fire to the room of origin.
 Prevent premature structural collapse and minimise progressive collapse.
 Prevent fire spread into/from adjoining premises
 Identify fire resistance levels appropriate to the occupancy

Construction Design Sheets
This LPC Design Guide 2000 reflects the long fire test experiences of the Loss Prevention Council by including 150 pages of LPC Construction design sheets as:

 Information on generic building products per main application
 Main function of application of each product group
 General advice on which fire test evidence for designers
 Generic data on a broad range of building product types.

In addition, the following characteristics have been provided to allow comparison between products in the same application group:

 Contribution to fire growth, pre-flashover
 Surface spread of flame
 Fire resistance
 Contribution to fire load, post flashover
 Integrity in fire
 Temperature rise in fire
 Smoke resistance