Door swing direction

[JBI]

Where 2 or more means of egress are provided, the loss of one shall not result in the loss of more than 50% of capacity is only part of the equation...
The reason I would say that door swing in the direction of egress travel must be maintained is that when one of the 2 available (in this case) becomes compromised, this would result in the entire group of occupants being forced to use the only remaining path of travel.
What a particular applicant 'wants' is often not consistent with the requirements of the Code.

 

[Robert]

Francis, JBI...yes, I understand the Assembly space needs panic hardware and got the swing direction. My puzzle here is the resulting OL in the corridors which are each now less than 50 (27 each from the assembly space...I'm ignoring the offices now just for simplicity). That said, do the corridor doors need panic hardware since the resulting OL is less than 50....or is there a requirement that once panic hardware is required ANYWHERE in a building, that the MOE must require panic all the way to the exits?

 

[cda]

Francis, JBI...yes, I understand the Assembly space needs panic hardware and got the swing direction. My puzzle here is the resulting OL in the corridors which are each now less than 50 (27 each from the assembly space...I'm ignoring the offices now just for simplicity). That said, do the corridor doors need panic hardware since the resulting OL is less than 50....or is there a requirement that once panic hardware is required ANYWHERE in a building, that the MOE must require panic all the way to the exits?

I would say yes, because of the room requirement for panic hardware. That has to continue in the means of egress.

The exiting is serving an area or room with assembly

 

[JBI]

Robert, from my prior post... "The reason I would say that door swing in the direction of egress travel must be maintained is that when one of the 2 available (in this case) becomes compromised, this would result in the entire group of occupants being forced to use the only remaining path of travel."
Same logic applies to the operating hardware.

 

[Francis Vineyard]

Robert, in reference to post #23, condition No. 1; where an assembly space require two exits all means of egress doors to the exit discharge that serves the assembly shall have panic hardware regardless of the occupant load.

 

[Robert]

Thank you, panic hardware for the new doors!