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    Open Parking Garage- Large vehicles

    Hello All, with a parking garage Type I construction used for school buses on ground floor and regular vehicle (employees of a building) on the upper deck. The consensus is that the occupancy of the parking is S-2. I'm confused about sprinklers requirements? my understanding of code, if the...
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    Does IBC require occupant notification in an S-1 or S-2 parking garage?

    2015 ICC codes are applicable and the garage type in question is a non-high-rise, multi-level free standing public parking garage; enclosed or unenclosed doesn't matter. Theres no section in 907 for S occupancies and 406.6 doesn't have any requirements for a fire alarm system. I'm racking my...
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    Can an elevator be the only means of egress from a small residential below grade parking garage?

    The project is located in San Francisco, CA. It's a three story building with an underground parking garage for three dwelling units. Elevator access is available to all floors. The parking garage (Type U occ) is ~1975sf so the occupant load would be 10. This means that we only need one exit (as...
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    Egress through parking garage

    Working on a project we took over from another architect. I don't think the egress on the left works. There is no way to exit the garage once you have entered it from the stair and I don't know if the code would allow egress through a garage door. Does anyone know if that would be allowed or...
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