EERO location

[Mech]

2015 IBC
NFPA 13 sprinkler system
Proposed R-2 apartment building

A bedroom is proposed in the middle of an apartment. There is a full height glass wall that separates the bedroom from the living room that contains the EERO. The bedroom door is in the opaque wall perpendicular to the glass wall.

Is this code compliant? I am thinking it is not and the glass wall would need to be removed.

 

[steveray]

What story? There are a few exceptions in 1030, And some egress gimmies if they do have them in 1006.3.2......

 

[cda]

No

Unless can meet the one exit rule

 

[Yikes]

Too bad you aren't under the current IBC - - the EERO requirement has changed since 2015 and would be waived altogether if the story in which the apartment is located on has access to 2 exits.

 

[Mech]

steveray: There are apartments with this configuration on the second, third, fourth, and fifth stories above grade plane. There are 19 apartments per story.

CDA: I will have to read up on the one exit rule. It appears that Tables 1006.3.2(1) and 1006.3.2(2) permit one exit from R-2 occupancies, but the footnotes require EERO per Section 1030.

 

[RLGA]

Too bad you aren't under the current IBC - - the EERO requirement has changed since 2015 and would be waived altogether if the story in which the apartment is located on has access to 2 exits.
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The 2015 edition also allowed it--it is just that the 2018 edition made it much easier to understand.

In the 2015 IBC, Section 1030.1 states:

"In addition to the means of egress required by this chapter, provisions shall be made for emergency escape and rescue openings in Group R-2 occupancies in accordance with Tables 1006.3.2(1) and 1006.3.2(2) and Group R-3 occupancies."​

This means that the EERO requirements would only apply in Group R-2 occupancies when subject to the tables indicated, which only apply to stories with one exit. Thus, if the building had two exits per story, Tables 1006.3.2(1) and 1006.3.2(2) would not apply, thus the requirements for EERO would not apply.