Sliding doors for California hotel project (R-1 occupancy)

[Mstarsarch]

Has anyone provided a sliding door assembly that is egress compliant when it's the egress door from a balcony to a hotel guestroom? I have used a lift and slide before, but wondering if there are other mfrs to look at as well. I understand water performance is an issue, but if there's one that stands out among the sliding doors . . .

 

[Yikes]

CBC 1010.1.2 exception #9: "In other than group H occupancies, manually operated horizontal sliding doors a permitted in a means of egress from spaces with an occupant load of 10 or less."
Why wouldn't a conventional residential sliding patio door work for most of your guestrooms? See CBC 1010.1.6 for threshold heights.

Please note that is the guestroom is one of the rooms required to be mobility accessible per CBC 11B-224, it is highly unlikely you will find a reasonably-priced conventional exterior sliding door that will meet the threshold requirements described in 11B-303. We would usually provide swinging doors at those units.

 

[Mstarsarch]

CBC 1010.1.2 exception #9: "In other than group H occupancies, manually operated horizontal sliding doors a permitted in a means of egress from spaces with an occupant load of 10 or less."
Why wouldn't a conventional residential sliding patio door work for most of your guestrooms? See CBC 1010.1.6 for threshold heights.

Please note that is the guestroom is one of the rooms required to be mobility accessible per CBC 11B-224, it is highly unlikely you will find a reasonably-priced conventional exterior sliding door that will meet the threshold requirements described in 11B-303. We would usually provide swinging doors at those units.

Residential sliding doors usually have a back leg to keep water from coming in. So they would not work for an R-1 occupancy where the threshold is only allowed to be 1/2 inch above the finish floor. We always provide swing doors at the mobility guestrooms, just trying to see if we can use strictly a sliding door at a typical guestroom as an egress door. Commercial sliding doors that do have compliant thresholds have less water performance, I was curious to see what others use in this project type.