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    travel distance to egress doorway and to exit

    These are from Ontario Building Code, Division B. It looks like 3.3.1.6. is useless, as the travel distance to the nearest exit would be always longer than the travel distance to the egress doorway, unless the egress doorway is the entrance to the exit, where the travel distance to egress...
    • sunyaer
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    • egress doorway exit travel distance
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    • Forum: Canada
  2. S

    travel distance to an exit from a sprinklered suite of high hazard industrial occupancy

    This is a test question (Ontario Building Code): what is the maximum travel distance to an exit from a 160 m^2 sprinklered suite of high hazard industrial occupancy? It looks like in the code I can't find travel distance from a suite that is sprinklered of high hazard industrial occupancy...
    • sunyaer
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    • exit high hazard industrial occupancy travel distance
    • Replies: 1
    • Forum: Canada
  3. M

    Travel Distance interpolation?

    I have a large warehouse that meets travel distance increase per 1017.2.2, however, at the exit doors, the ceiling drops to 20'. Do I take the most restrictive 250' allowed TD for the entire space, or could I interpolate, say 75% of the TD is in the area that allows 400' of TD and 25% is in the...
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    2 Exits Required - Both Need to Be Under 300'?

    Where two exits are required and the max common path of travel is met, does each travel distance to the two exits need to be under 300'? Or does only one travel distance need to be under 300'?
  5. Cristy Bickel

    Exit discharge from Interior Exit Stairway using Exception 1 (1028.1 exc 1) and Travel Distance

    Under IBC 2015: I have a rated interior exit stairway in a 3 story building that does not exit directly to the exterior of the building. Per Exit Discharge 1028.1 exception 1, if I have a sprinklered building and a free and unobstructed path to the exit, I can do this. My question however is...
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