I have an existing 2-story building that originally had one tenant upstairs and one downstairs with one stairway. The stairs were open to the second floor and the ground level landing was closed from the adjacent ground floor tenant. Now one tenant occupies the building and we applied for a permit to connect the two stories at the stair landing. The building department agreed per FBC 1022.1 the exception was met for less than 10 occupants and less than 75' travel distance to allow one unenclosed stair.
We are at final inspection and the fire inspector is indicating it does not comply with FBC 1022.1 and when I pointed out the exception he came back with NFP 101 39.3.1.1. Lookiging at NFPA it appears to a HUGE discrepancy between the FBC/IBC, NFPA only has exceptions for sprinklered buildings. Most frustrating thing is we new this was an issue and cleared with the building department before we even received the permit. What is your take on this situation?
We are at final inspection and the fire inspector is indicating it does not comply with FBC 1022.1 and when I pointed out the exception he came back with NFP 101 39.3.1.1. Lookiging at NFPA it appears to a HUGE discrepancy between the FBC/IBC, NFPA only has exceptions for sprinklered buildings. Most frustrating thing is we new this was an issue and cleared with the building department before we even received the permit. What is your take on this situation?