High Desert
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The corridors are the "exit access." I disagree with requiring the corridors to have two exits. The spaces that are being provided with "exit access" meet CPET, overall travel distance, etc. Steveray I'm not sure which code edition you're using but Exit Access and Exit Doorways are in Section 1015 in both the 2009 and 2012 editions, not 1014. By adding the occupants that are already provided with two separate paths to two separate exits is contrary to the basic tenet of means of egress. You are required to provide the minimum number of exits from the occupied spaces via exits, exit access or exterior doors. You have done that by providing "exit access corridors" that in turn provide access to the minimum number of exits required by the code. The corridor has to meet the minimum width based on the occupant load served and be fire-resisteve if required by Section 1018. By requiring two exits from the "exit access corridor" you are now requiring four exits from spaces that only required two.That's double dipping IMHO.
Section 1015 says:
1015.1 Exits or exit access doorways from spaces. Two exits or exit access doorways from any space shall be provided where one of the following conditions exists:
1. The occupant load of the space exceeds one of the values in Table 1015.1. ( what occupancy is a corridor? Are you going to call it an A occupancy? B occupancy? I call it the exit access because it's not typically occupied except for exit access.)
2. The common path of egress travel exceeds one of the limitations of Section 1014.3. (you've already met CPET when you left the assembly ares. Now you're down to overall travel distance, which is 250 feet from Table 1016.1)
3. Where required by Section 1015.3, 1015.4, 1015.5, 1015.6 or 1015.6.1. ( It's none of those)
Anyway, that's my take on it.
Section 1015 says:
1015.1 Exits or exit access doorways from spaces. Two exits or exit access doorways from any space shall be provided where one of the following conditions exists:
1. The occupant load of the space exceeds one of the values in Table 1015.1. ( what occupancy is a corridor? Are you going to call it an A occupancy? B occupancy? I call it the exit access because it's not typically occupied except for exit access.)
2. The common path of egress travel exceeds one of the limitations of Section 1014.3. (you've already met CPET when you left the assembly ares. Now you're down to overall travel distance, which is 250 feet from Table 1016.1)
3. Where required by Section 1015.3, 1015.4, 1015.5, 1015.6 or 1015.6.1. ( It's none of those)
Anyway, that's my take on it.
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