Temporary Holding Cell - IBC 2015 Function of Space

[kdominguez]

Hello. What do people usually assign to termporary holding cells for Function of Space to get an Occupant Count? The project I'm working on is a public safety admin building (B Occupancy), and contains 4 small 59sf holding cells for suspect questioning. No permanent detention at this facility. I'm trying to keep the holding cell occupancy load under 5 to be able to get away with an incidental use instead of a separated mixed occupancy B & I-3 for the building. I haven't been able to find much information on the function of space for a holding cell. Some people use Daycare at 35sf but I'm trying to keep it at 100sf/occupant and wondering if I could get away with calling this an Institutional (Outpatient or Sleeping) Area. If anyone has an experience with this let me know, thanks.

 

[north star]

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kdominguez, ...Welcome to the Building Codes Forum !
Your topic has come up before.........See the Links:

Police station detention area – accessory use yes or no?

Looking at a code plan for a new police station, and the designer has listed the detention area as an I3 accessory use to the primary B occupancy of the police station. The I-3 detention center is less than 10% of the B occupancy area so it meets that requirement, I’m just not convinced that the...

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