Sleeping room egress

[retire09]

Can emergency egress from a sleeping room be through a rated exit corridor rather than an egress opening to the outside?

We have two rooms with office on one side and a garage/storage on the other.

Can these rooms be converted to sleeping rooms if a rated exit corridor is provided directly from the rooms to the exterior for emergency egress and entry will be from the office area on the other side?

 

[cda]

Take it IBC

sprinkled building??

One story?

and why can't they install a window in each room?

 

[retire09]

2009 IBC

non-sprinklered due to State amendment not required

Rooms are not adjacent to exterior walls

 

[steveray]

What kind of R...Apartment, hotel, dorm?

 

[retire09]

It's just a sleeping room. They have restrooms and showers down the hall.

The occupants work on offshore oil rigs in Alaska and when they come off the rigs they sometimes need a place to stay while waiting for flights home.

They stay anywhere from a few hours to a couple of days but always the same guys so they are all very familiar with the building.

 

[ICE]

No ...........

 

[retire09]

Looks like #2 would allow it if they can provide two exits in opposite directions.

Exceptions:

1. In other than Group R-3 occupancies, buildings

equipped throughout with an approved automatic

sprinkler system in accordance with Section

903.3.1.1 or 903.3.1.2.

2. In other than Group R-3 occupancies, sleeping rooms

provided with a door to a fire-resistance-rated corridor

having access to two remote exits in opposite

directions.

 

[mtlogcabin]

Looks like #2 would allow it if they can provide two exits in opposite directions.

Agree that is the correct solution

 

[ICE]

Can you give us a drawing of the floor plan?

 

[retire09]

Sorry, no plan.

They have 3 rooms currently used as offices. The first is adjacent to an exterior wall and is easy to provide the egress opening.

The other 2 are down a hall with other offices on the left and a rated wall on the other side separating the offices from a storage garage.

The idea was to provide openings in the office walls that would connect to a rated corridor that would pass thru the garage to the exterior providing a second exit.

It would be a second protected exit directly to the exterior but still not meet the code expectations for emergency egress.

If the building was over 75' tall (High Rise) the egress would not be required at all.

Make sense to anyone?

 

[cda]

Sorry, no plan.They have 3 rooms currently used as offices. The first is adjacent to an exterior wall and is easy to provide the egress opening.

The other 2 are down a hall with other offices on the left and a rated wall on the other side separating the offices from a storage garage.

The idea was to provide openings in the office walls that would connect to a rated corridor that would pass thru the garage to the exterior providing a second exit.

It would be a second protected exit directly to the exterior but still not meet the code expectations for emergency egress.

If the building was over 75' tall (High Rise) the egress would not be required at all.

Make sense to anyone?

Because it would have those sprinkle thing a mah bobs

 

[ICE]

I'm trying to visualize what you describe and I get the idea that the corridor has one exit and the other exit is through another room. If I am correct this isn't in compliance with the exception.