Smoke compartments similar to exits, have there own travel distance requirements. Not only in healthcare do we have to travel to exit it we also have a requirement to travel to a smoke compartment door/wall. Even if for standing at the exit door we can see daylight, we still have to be able to travel lesson 200 feet to a smoke compartment door without having to go outside.
Category: Smoke Compartments
Building Code, Smoke Compartments
Smoke Compartments what are they 31-0
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Smoker Compartments are unique to Healthcare, Penitentiary. It allows the facility to defend in place i.e. not evacuate the building it also helps protect those people incapable of self preservation. Healthcare patients and persons in prison, incarcerated cannot evacuate on their own nor do we actually want them to. As for prisoners we do not want to release them into the public. As for healthcare we want to be able to keep our loved ones on emergency power i.e. the ventilator in a protected environment and/or medical gases to help keep them alive. These items are not available outside therefore we want to evacuate them i.e. move them to another part of the building another smoke compartment
Smoke Compartments, Travel distance
Travel distance to smoke compartment 5-0
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Travel distance to smoke compartment, is an additional requirement on top of travel distance to an exit. Even standing close to an exit door we still must reach a smoke compartment wall within 200 feet. This requirement is in both IBC and NFPA
Exiting, Exiting, Smoke Compartments, Stairs, Travel path
Smoke compartment exiting 3-0
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Exiting out of smoke compartment, if commonly misunderstood. You have to have both exits going directly to the outside, going to two different smoke compartments or a combination thereof.
ARE, Exiting, Exiting, Smoke Compartments, Travel distance
Travel distance to an exit 2-0
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Travel distance to an exit, this is dealing with namely travel distance to an exit in healthcare and dealing with smoke compartments.
Exiting, Smoke Compartments, Travel distance
Smoke compartment size 1-0
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smoke compartment size, There are several important considerations that need to be thought about. It is not just 22,500sf