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Restroom = normally unoccupied space?

Restrooms in this example should or should not be allowed along the horizontal exit?

  • It is okay for restrooms to be allowed along a horizontal exit corridor

    Votes: 1 50.0%
  • It is not okay for restrooms to be located along a horizontal exit corridor

    Votes: 1 50.0%

  • Total voters
    2
Can a horizontal exit (in years passed a corridor) be on a ground floor not beginning at a stair but from a suite of offices, connect to an exterior exit (a typical condition on many sites), RR's with rated doors and walls connect to it. Also see this in airports such as Burbank ( a long horizontal room with many rooms opening into it)
A corridor is not a HE....
 
How do you get this far in a meaningful discussion about code without citing - the code?
2012 NFPA 101,
"3.3.81.1* Horizontal Exit. A way of passage from one building
to an area of refuge in another building on approximately
the same level, or a way of passage through or
around a fire barrier to an area of refuge on approximately
the same level in the same building that affords safety from
fire and smoke originating from the area of incidence and
areas communicating therewith."

If the the door leading from Existing to New passes through a proper Fire Barrier, the 'horizontal exit corridor,' i.e. Exit Passageway may be constructed, and connected to other spaces, as merely an Exit Access Corridor.
 
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