Hotel common path of travel

[stradlin]

Hi all

I'm working on a hotel in Colorado where the building code official is asking that we calculate the common path of travel from the furthest point within each single-exit guest room. This runs contrary to how I've been accustomed to this calculation, as I've always done it from the guest room entry door rather than from from the furthest point within the room. This ends up messing with our plan considerably, as while we never have more than 75 feet to the room door, and never more than 75 feet from the room door to the egress path split, from a couple rooms an occupant has to travel down a one-way hallway before the egress paths split, and the overall path exceeds the 75 feet allowed in R-1 occupancies. While I know NFPA specifically states that common path of travel should be calculated from the outside of the guest room, I don't see a similar clear statement in the IBC. Any help would be appreciated.

 

[arwat23]

IBC 202:
Common Path of Egress Travel. "That portion of exit access travel distance measured from the most remote point of each room, area or space to that point where the occupants have separate and district access to two exits or exit access doorways."

 

[walker.t]

from a couple rooms an occupant has to travel down a one-way hallway before the egress paths split

Keep an eye out for dead-end corridors, based on your description it sounds like 1020.5 Exception 2 applies which would allow you to have a 50’ dead-end in your R-1 use.

 

[steveray]

Sounds like the inspector is correct...Welcome to THE Forum!