measuring exit access travel distance where there are multiple exits?

[ccollings]

I'm working on an addition to a school. Use group E, 2-B, fully sprinklered. part of the addition is extending a corridor and an exit. I'm trying to calculate the new exit access travel distance and I'm not sure where to measure it from. There is a existing gym that has 4 exits, one of which is this corridor that is being extended. If i take my line from the back corner of the gym (as implied by 1017.3), opposite from the the extended corridor then my travel distance is over 250'. My issue is that from that point there are 2 closer exits well under the 250' travel distance (one exit is less than 100' from that point). my interpretation In the past is to take the measurement from the center of the space which seems to be the most remote point where you have multiple choices. If I measure from the center of the gym, then my travel distance to all 4 exits is well under 250' and less than 200' for the addition. I'm not sure how to interpret 1017.3 where there are multiple exits.

 

[RLGA]

The travel distance need only be measured to one exit for each space. All other required or possible exits can be at any distance.

For editions prior to the 2021 edition, Section 1017.3 states: "Exit access travel distance shall be measured from the most remote point of each room, area or space along the natural and unobstructed path of horizontal and vertical egress travel to the entrance to an exit."

This has been clarified in the 2021 edition, which adds the following to the end of the paragraph: "Where more than one exit is required, exit access travel distance shall be measured to the nearest exit."

 

[steveray]

Of course...Ron is correct.....

 

[ccollings]

Thank You !