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Natural ventilation via overhead doors

Rick18071 said:
Interesting. What is the definition of employee housing? Must be a CA thing, not in the IBC.
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The Employee Housing Act and the adopted regulations govern the standards for the construction, maintenance, use, and occupancy of living quarters, called "employee housing," provided for five or more employees under specified circumstances. Employee housing subject to the Act is privately-operated and does not include government-owned or -operated migrant worker facilities.
In general, employee housing is privately-owned housing that houses five or more employees and meets the following:
  • Living quarters provided in connection with any work, whether or not rent is involved.
  • Housing in a rural area that is:
    • Provided by someone who is not an agricultural employer, and
    • Provided for agricultural workers employed by any agricultural employer.
Any city, county, or city and county may assume responsibility for enforcement of the Employee Housing Act upon written notice to, and approval by the Department. Where a local government has not assumed enforcement responsibility, or enforcement has been taken away from a local agency because of non-enforcement, the Department is the enforcement agency.
 
Agriculture is a significant sector in California's economy, producing nearly $50 billion in revenue in 2018. There are more than 400 commodity crops grown across California, including a significant portion of all fruits and nuts for the United States. In 2017, there were 77,100 unique farms and ranches in the state, operating across 25.3 million acres of land. The average farm size was 328 acres, significantly less than the average farm size in the U.S. of 444 acres.

Much of the vegetables you eat, come from CA. That is why it is so stupid to stop the migrant workers from coming across the boarder. All the wall people are doing is costing themselves more at the market.
 
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mark handler said:
Agriculture is a significant sector in California's economy, producing nearly $50 billion in revenue in 2018. There are more than 400 commodity crops grown across California, including a significant portion of all fruits and nuts for the United States. In 2017, there were 77,100 unique farms and ranches in the state, operating across 25.3 million acres of land. The average farm size was 328 acres, significantly less than the average farm size in the U.S. of 444 acres.

Much of the vegetables you eat, come from CA. That is why it is so stupid to stop the migrant workers from coming across the boarder. All the wall people are doing is costing themselves more at the market.
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"Spot on" Mark!
 
My local AHJ would not permit natural ventilation because it didn't make sense to open windows in the winter. We didn't have time in the project schedule to submit an appeal. ICC Interpretation agreed that as long as the openings are "readily available" that Natural Ventilation can be used. The AHJ has essentially removed the approved approach of Natural Ventilation from the code. Frustrating.
 
There are a few occupancies that require mechanical ventilation. If it is not one of those, unless the code was actually amended locally, he is basically making his own requirements and not following what the code says. I would ask him for the code section that prohibits natural ventilation. Most areas of the country have periods of time where it makes no sense to have open windows......
 
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