Day Care Partial Check list
BUILDING ANALYSIS
Chapter 3 - Use and Occupancy Classification
1. Building or structure used for educational purposes for more than six children through the 12th grade at any one time shall be classified as Group E occupancy. CBC 305.1
2. Religious educational rooms and religious auditoriums accessory to places of religious worship with occupant load of less than 100 shall be classified as Group A-3. CBC 305.1
3. Training and skill development not within a school or academic program, including tutoring centers, martial arts studios, gymnastics and similar uses regardless of the ages served, where not classified as a Group A occupancy, shall be classified as Group B occupancy. CBC 304.1
4. Day care facility shall be classified as Group E occupancy when the facility provides day care for more than 6 children aged 2 and over. Day care facility providing care for more than 6 but no more than 100 children aged under 2 on less than 24 hour basis when the rooms are located on the exit discharge level and each room has an exit door directly to the exterior may be classified as Group E occupancy. CBC 305.2 CBC 308.6.1
Chapter 4 - Special Detailed Requirements Based on Use and Occupancy
5. Rooms classified as Group I-4 or Group E for day care shall not be located above or below the first story unless one of the exceptions in sec.436.1 for Group I-4 or sec. 452.1.4 for Group E are met. CBC 436.1 & 452.1.4
6. All buildings housing Group E occupancies shall front directly on a public street or an exit discharge not less than 20 ft in width. At least one required exits shall be located on the public street or on the exit discharge. CBC 452.1.1
7. Every room in Group E occupancies with an occupant load of 300 or more shall have one of its exits or exit-access doorways lead directly into a separate means of egress system with min. of two paths of exit travel, which are separated by a smoke barrier to provide an atmospheric separation that precludes contamination of both paths of exit travel by the same fire. Not more than two required exits or exit-access doorways shall enter into the same means of egress system. 452.1.2
8. When fence or gates with locks are installed around the school grounds, a safe dispersal areas based on 3 sq ft per occupant shall be provided at least 50 ft between the school and the fence or gate. 452.1.3
Chapter 5 - General Building Heights and Areas
9. The max. hight and max. number of stories of a building housing Group E or I-4 occupancy shall not exceed the limits specified in the referenced tables. Table 504.3 504.4
10. The total maximum allowable area for unseparated occupancies in building two or more stories above grade plane shall not exceed twice of the max allowable area per floor. 506.2.3
11. The sum of the ratios on all floors for separated mixed occupancies shall not exceed 2 for building two stories or higher above grade plane. 506.2.4
12. The sum of the ratios on each floor for separated mixed occupancies shall not exceed 1. 508.4.2
C. FIRE-RESISTANCE CONSTRUCTION AND FIRE PROTECTION SYSTEM
Chapter 7 - Fire Resistance Rated Construction
13. Exterior walls in Group E or I-4 occupancies shall be fire-resistance rated in accordance with Tables 601 and 602 for exposure to fire from both sides regardless of fire separation distance. 705.5
14. Fire walls separating Group E or I-4 occupancies shall be 3 hr fire rated except in Type II or V construction, where fire wall may be 2 hr fire rated. CBC Table 706.4
15. Fire barriers for separating fire areas in Group E or I-4 occupancies shall be 2 hr fire rated. Table 707.3.10
16. Duct and air transfer openings in smoke partitions shall be provided with a smoke damper in Group E or I-4 occupancies. 717.5.7
18. Approved fire- and smoke dampers are required in ducts and air transfer openings of fire barriers in Group E or I-4 occupancies. 717.5.2
19. For Group E or I-4 occupancies, a listed smoke damper designed to resist the passage of smoke shall be provided at each point a duct or air transfer opening penetrates a fire resistance rated corridor enclosure required to have smoke and draft doors. 717.5.4.1 716.5.3
Chapter 9 - Fire Protection Systems
20. An automatic sprinkler system shall be provided throughout all day care facilities under Group E occupancies with fire areas greater than 12,000 sq ft. 903.2.3
21. An automatic sprinkler system shall be provided throughout buildings with day care facilities under Group I-4 occupancies. CBC 903.2.6
22. A manual and automatic fire alarm system shall be installed in Group E occupancies with an occupant load of 50 or more or containing more than one classroom or one or more rooms used for day care purposes. When automatic sprinkler system or smoke detectors are installed, such systems or detectors shall be connected to the building fire alarm system. CBC 907.2.3
23. Every large-family day care home in Group R-3 shall be provided with at least one manual fire alarm box at a location approved by the Fire Department. CBC 907.2.6.4
D. MEANS OF EGRESS
Chapter 10 – Means of Egress
24. Two exits or exit access doorways from any room or space for day care purposes shall be provided when the occupant load exceeds 49 or 10 for ages 2 years or less for day care in Groups E, I-4 or R occupancies CBC 1006.2.1 CBC 1006.2.2.4
25. Every story or basement of a large-family day care home in Group R-3 occupancy shall be provided with two exits, which are remotely located from each other. CBC 1006.2.2.7
26. The max exit access travel distance for day care facilities in Group E occupancy shall be 200 ft for buildings without fire-sprinkler system and 250 ft with fire-sprinkler system. CBC Table 1017.2
27. The max exit access travel distance for day care facilities in Group I-4 occupancy shall be 200 ft. CBC Table 1017.2
28. Corridors serving more than 6 occupants in Group I-4 day care shall be equipped with fire sprinkler system and provided with 1-hr fire rated walls. Corridors serving more than 10 occupants in Group E day care shall be 1 hr fire rated with or without fire-sprinkler system provided. CBC Table 1020.1
29. The minimum corridor width in Group E day care facilities shall be 44”, except facilities having a required capacity of 100 or more shall be 72” minimum. CBC Table 1020.2
30. The minimum corridor width in Group I-4 day care facilities shall be 44”. CBC 1020.2