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It's not a structural violation if the structural engineer approved it.....It may not meet prescriptive IRC but....
I would like to use a hypothetical situation to clarify your former boss's position. I will use a hypothetical from an actual event of the past.I wish my former boss adhered to that statement. His belief was if the RDP stamped it, signed it and dated it, they should stand behind it!
Maybe....How big is the basement? What is the new OL vs. the existing? Was the basement storage before or A use? ....Code can't be "designed" away....Structure can...I would like to use a hypothetical situation to clarify your former boss's position. I will use a hypothetical from an actual event of the past.
If an architect submitted drawings to convert the basement of a 3000 square foot pizzeria into a nightclub and that basement had one way in and out via interior stairs from the pizza parlor and no other EERO because it was sandwiched between to other 'main street' buildings, had no plans for fire sprinklers, showed an occupant load over 200 and planned two single occupant bathrooms, one male and one female. Are you saying that your former boss would have approved this if it was signed by an architect?
Same footprint, 3000sqft. OL 15. Storage.How big is the basement? What is the new OL vs. the existing? Was the basement storage before or A use?
HAHAHAHAHAHA....Nope. Get out of my office.Same footprint, 3000sqft. OL 15. Storage.
Any new walls?....Likely >50 OL now so 2 exits, underground gets tough for retro-sprinklers as well as the COO....Same footprint, 3000sqft. OL 15. Storage.
What you have is an approved code violation. Depending on the jurisdiction, that can be bulletproof. Many building officials will allow the violation rather than admit that an inspector doesn’t know the code.
Hence my strict adherence to providing Code/Standard references where I am requesting a change in submitted plans or during onsite inspections.Contractors get so many different reactions from inspectors that they are convinced that nobody knows the code. Contractors are motivated to pass inspection and carry on… code compliance is not a part of that.
I have all the time that I need to write the correction and get to the next inspection. Purists that insist on providing the code section numbers dumbfound me.I have all the time I need to go back to the truck, fire up the machine, read the Code/standard, fire up the interweb and verify an assembly/NFPA standard. Whatever it takes. GET THE CALL RIGHT.
I have all the time that I need to write the correction and get to the next inspection. Purists that insist on providing the code section numbers dumbfound me.
The OP is about violations that were not written. The violations were found after the fact by a real inspector. That real inspector is logically on the hook for section numbers since he is crapping on another inspector's pathetic performance.