Tim Mailloux
Registered User
We have a client that owns two adjacent buildings on two separate properties. The two buildings abut one another with a party wall. This client would like to create an opening between the two buildings, but per 2015 IBC 706.1.1 ‘……Party walls shall be constructed without openings….’
Is there another way to skin this cat? Maybe we could get the two plots of land merged into one and then consider this two buildings on the same property. what was previously a party wall is now technically a double fire wall per NFPA 221 and an opening between the two buildings would be allowed.
Is there another way to skin this cat? Maybe we could get the two plots of land merged into one and then consider this two buildings on the same property. what was previously a party wall is now technically a double fire wall per NFPA 221 and an opening between the two buildings would be allowed.