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CBC 11A / FHA private apartment building, 4 stories, with elevator providing access to all floors.
Exit access door swings into a stairwell enclosure. Stairwell enclosure is NOT an area of refuge, as the building is fully sprinklered (1009.3.3.2)
Landings are 4'-4" deep and meet requirements in Chapter 10 for egress width, door swing, etc.; and 1123A for interior stairways.
Builder is questioning if the landing needs to be 8" deeper, to achieve 5' deep floor clearance on the pull side approach to the stairwell door, as we typically see for doorways on accessible routes?
My initial thinking is that although the door and the stairwell is part of an "accessible means of egress" per 1009.2, the direction of travel is only supposed to be one-way, exiting out of the building. Therefore there is no "pull side approach" (1126A.3.2.1, fig. 11A8A(a)) when you are standing in the stairwell landing.
Am I correct?
Exit access door swings into a stairwell enclosure. Stairwell enclosure is NOT an area of refuge, as the building is fully sprinklered (1009.3.3.2)
Landings are 4'-4" deep and meet requirements in Chapter 10 for egress width, door swing, etc.; and 1123A for interior stairways.
Builder is questioning if the landing needs to be 8" deeper, to achieve 5' deep floor clearance on the pull side approach to the stairwell door, as we typically see for doorways on accessible routes?
My initial thinking is that although the door and the stairwell is part of an "accessible means of egress" per 1009.2, the direction of travel is only supposed to be one-way, exiting out of the building. Therefore there is no "pull side approach" (1126A.3.2.1, fig. 11A8A(a)) when you are standing in the stairwell landing.
Am I correct?