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    Path of egress not thru garage needed for non-living space above attached garage?

    We would like to build a space above our garage, which is attached to our house, and use it as an office. The space will have a bathroom and a small closet for cleaning supplies, but no kitchenette. We will never use it as a bedroom – just as a space where I can work and store stuff. The space...
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    1006.2.1 Egress based on occupant load and common path of egress travel distance

    2021 IBC Section 1006.2.1 requires that two exit or exit access doorways shall be provided to any space if the design occupant load or the common path of egress travel exceeds the values outlined in Table 1006.2.1. The classrooms shown in the plan below meet the common egress travel...
  3. admiralArchArch

    Choice of two exits...but one is outside POT

    I might be over thinking this but I've read almost all of Chapter 10 in the 2018 IBC and commentary and can't find clear wording on this. In this scenario two exits are required, and you reach the first exit stair under the common path of travel distance, lets say 125' for a R-2 occupancy...
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    Egress of Accessory Offices in an F-1 Occupancy

    I have a small building that is primarily an F-1 occupancy, with a few accessory spaces (two offices, a break room, mechanical and restrooms). I initially considered the building a mixed use per 508, with the accessory spaces a B occupancy (shown in green in the picture below). My question is...
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    Implied Egress Modifications in IEBC Performance Evaluation

    (code references are 2018) Hello - IEBC 1301.6.11 states "In applying this section, the means of egress are required to conform to the following sections of the International Building Code: 1003.7, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1016.2, 1026.1, 1028.2, 1028.5, 1029.2, 1029.3, 1029.4 and 1030." The...
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    IEBC Performance Compliance - Means of Egress Capacity and Number

    Hello - Code references are to 2018 IBC and IEBC IEBC 1301.6.11 states, "In applying this section, the means of egress are required to conform to the following sections of the International Building Code: 1003.7, 1004, 1005, 1006, 1007, 1016.2, 1026.1, 1028.2, 1028.5, 1029.2, 1029.3, 1029.4...
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    Egress from sleeping rooms on 3rd floor in R-3 existing structure

    I have an existing 2 story w/ attic wood framed house that currently has 6 sleeping rooms. The owner wants to convert the building into 2 dwelling units with 3 sleeping rooms each. Dwelling unit 1 is on the first floor. Dwelling unit 2 would take up the 2nd floor and attic, with the...
  8. sutefamily

    Playground Egresses in a School Courtyard

    I am interested in finding out about the egress code for a school playground that is in a courtyard, surrounded on three sides by the school and the 4th side by a 6 foot high fence. We recently had our policy changed so that all of the doors that exit from the playground back into the school...
  9. rjjh

    California - Hotel - glass shower door size, egress, swing requirements

    For a non ADA unit, will a glass shower compartment door need to meet the CBC Ch.10 egress requirements with a 32" minimum width? The CA plumbing code appears to permit 22" min. width, but in a commercial setting I'd assume the 32" min. width will prevail. Also are there any code sections...
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    Just for Fun

    OK, code gurus out there. Here's a good one just to make you think (any maybe laugh a little). Feel free to reply if you feel inclined, although I'm not really looking for any advice, more of a pondering question. How, exactly, should one apply Chapter 10 to a mausoleum? Yup, first time I've...
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    Arched doors and clear opening requirements

    I have a 36x80 arched doorway with the top of arch at 80". The door is the only point of egress out of a small office with Occ. load of 2. It proposed to be a pocket door. Is the "arch" of an arched opening allowed to encroach on the clear opening requirement? Does the line of the arch need to...
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    Accessory Occupancy Question

    I have an existing building with use group A-3 (community center). The client wants to make an area for day care within this building. The new day care area is less than 10% of the building first floor area (it also has a partial basement, and the building is only one level above grade)...
  13. rjjh

    Hotel Room Deck and Egress requirements (California Building Code)

    Hi All, I'm probably overthinking an easy issue, but thought/tips/reassurance much appreciated! I have a modular hotel unit R-1 occupancy in California with a single egress door (5'-6" wide clear) to an exterior deck (see current layout snippet below). This is a non-ADA/accessible unit (ADA...
  14. Harrison Staab

    Exit Discharge from Interior Exit Stair Remoteness or Separation Distance Requirement?

    For a 5 story (not a high rise) Type III Group R-2 Apartment building fully sprinklered per NFPA 13 in sunny California (CBC 2019): Project has two Interior Exit Stairways connected by a 1-hr corridor exceeding the separation requirement of 1007.1.1 (>1/3 building diagonal per exception 2). Due...
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    Egress Stair 36” wide - B Occupancy

    Hello everybody, I am new to the forum although I wanted to join for a while. I have a question regarding the stair width calculation I hope you may answer or help with. These are the project specs: Location: Omaha NE (IBC 2018 adopted code) Number of stories: ground level + second story...
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    Can an Occupant Evacuation Elevator be the only means of egress?

    I'm currently working on a 2019 IBC code analysis for a 100' observation tower. It's established that its a type B occupancy class and that it complies with 1006.2 for egress. What is tripping me up is whether 1006.3 will allow for a single exit or not. It is a singular, open air platform...
  17. rjjh

    Egress Courts and exterior wall ratings

    I have a hotel buuisiness/clubhouse with 2 enclosed exterior courtyards, the building is mixed use and non-separated. egress from the various structures in the complex run through the exterior courts to exits around the perimeter gates. but, there are a few pinch points (listed below) between...
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    Path of Egress - bathrooms

    I am creating an egress plan. I understand restrooms, for occupancy calculations, are not occupiable space per the definition. My building is Assembly (net). When creating a path of egress plan for a code review, do I need to show the restrooms in compliance with common path and egress path...
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    Must basement bedrooms have egress windows if there are two stair exits?

    I am designing a finished basement with two bedrooms. Each bedroom has a small existing window. There are two existing staircases leading up to a door to the backyard and another door out front. The two bedroom windows are in the setback, which means I can't enlarge them to create egress...
  20. frankjr

    California MagLocked Showroom Door

    My building is an Auto Dealership in Anaheim, California. The showroom has 5 glass door exits that are all potential means of egress from the building. The showroom doors are always open/unlocked except after hours when the business is closed down at night and secured. Currently, we secure...
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    Spiral vs Curved vs Winder; "within individual dwelling unit"

    Hello all, long time listener first time caller. Posting this in commercial rather than residential because it's multifamily and I wanted answers from a more rigorous perspective. I'm working on a fairly compact proposal for a condominium development subject to California Building Code and I'm...
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    Dwelling units NOT covered under 11A. ANY accessibility requirements?

    Hi there, thank you in advance for your help. The codes are so incredibly circular and unclear about when accessibility applies, and when it doesn't. Let's consider a small 3-story multifamily building with no elevator. Say 4 units per floor. All units are single story. A completely...
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    Egress from basement- Sidewalk door?

    I need to provide a second exit from an overlarge basement storage area in a building addition. My only viable location would be installing a sidewalk door. I designed a project years ago where it was explicitly stated in the code that one basement exit could be via such a door., but I can't...
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    Egress through Intervening Spaces

    I was recently told by an architect to revise an evac drawing I've been working on. See attached, it's the secondary (cyan) path. It was mentioned that the path cannot cross through intervening spaces. The large room is the Multipurpose/Gym. I've been making evac signs as such for a while and...
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    Definition of habitable room, window facing directly to the outdoors

    Our town has an ordinance stating that every bedroom shall have “a window facing directly to the outdoors”. What does that mean? Does that mean that the window must open to the outdoors? Could this requirement be met with an interior bedroom with no window to the outdoors that has a transom...
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