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  1. hapyhour

    4 exits required - 3 interior exit stairways and 1 exit access stairway provided

    New building, Type I-B, two hour rated.
  2. hapyhour

    4 exits required - 3 interior exit stairways and 1 exit access stairway provided

    Thank you all for your discussion. I was able to confirm informally with ICC that the horizontal exit will be our solution to provide the compliant number of exits on the 6th floor.
  3. hapyhour

    4 exits required - 3 interior exit stairways and 1 exit access stairway provided

    I will check to see if my firm has membership with ICC Each exit on the floor is independent, does not merge and is continuous to the discharge. All four of the egreess paths from the 6th floor is not required to be exits, as one exit access stairway is allowed to connect between two floors...
  4. hapyhour

    4 exits required - 3 interior exit stairways and 1 exit access stairway provided

    CBC 1006.3 Egress from stories or occupied roofs: The means of egress system serving any story or occupied roof shall be provided with the number of separate and distinct exits or access to exits based on the aggregate occupant load served in accordance with this section. Where stairways serve...
  5. hapyhour

    4 exits required - 3 interior exit stairways and 1 exit access stairway provided

    Once the OL entering the 5th floor via the exit access stairway, then the 5th floor is looked at for exiting. Exiting is per story and adding the OL coming from the 6th floor to the 5th floor, the 5th floor only requires 3 exits. The exiting is required per story and the code now states that...
  6. hapyhour

    4 exits required - 3 interior exit stairways and 1 exit access stairway provided

    Further...access to exits is achieved on that floor via the exit access at the exit access stairway. By definition the exit access doorway is the access point where the path of egress enters the exit access stairway.
  7. hapyhour

    4 exits required - 3 interior exit stairways and 1 exit access stairway provided

    Section 1006.3.1 states that the egress travel can pass through one adjacent story. per 1006.3 access to the fourth exit is provided via the fourth stairway leading to the fourth separate and distinct exit access on the 5th floor below. The shared interior stairway would be no different than a...
  8. hapyhour

    Something not right..................

    Agree, sounds like an atrium. see table 716.1. a 2 hour wall assembly requires a 90 min fire door.
  9. hapyhour

    4 exits required - 3 interior exit stairways and 1 exit access stairway provided

    I am on the 6th floor of a building and need to exit over 1000 people (4 exits) from that floor. the floor has 3 exits , each separated far away from each other, that lead into 3 separate interior access stairs that lead direct to the discharge. Can I add a 4th exit access stair in the middle...
  10. hapyhour

    So a person walks out of an elevator.

    1006.2 Egress from spaces. Rooms, areas or spaces, including mezzanines, within a story or basement shall be provided with the number of exits or access to exits in accordance with this section.
  11. hapyhour

    Control Areas and interconnecting stair

    To clarify, you can not have a control area be vertical in a building, being on floors 3 and 4. We came to an agreement with the building department. one control area per floor, the open interconnecting stair will be allowed and the higher restriction of the 4th floor MAQ, 12.5%, will be...
  12. hapyhour

    Control Areas and interconnecting stair

    The stairway will always connect two control areas, because you can no longer have a control area on more than one floor. Can i have a control area on one side of the building and the other be uncontrolled?
  13. hapyhour

    Control Areas and interconnecting stair

    Can i have an interconnecting stair within a control area, that is open between just the two floors? CBC and CFC simply say that control areas need to be separated by fire barriers(CBC707) and/or horizontal assemblies (CBC 711). There are no other requirements out of CBC 414 or CFC 5003...
  14. hapyhour

    Restrm count for Unisex Restroom in-lieu of multi-stall

    Ron, Isn't a toilet room includes a lavatory and a toilet stall does not. With the lavatories still in the common space, this would not be a single user toilet facility, but a single gender facility where the toilet partitions are simply more private. The 50% rule would not apply. A toilet...
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