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Use and Occupancy Classification Guide

This document discusses requirements for use and occupancy classification related to egress doors, locks, and vertical openings between floor levels in residential buildings. Specifically, it addresses: 1) Allowing egress doors to be locked in accordance with the building's use, and requiring keys to unlock exterior doors from areas of refuge. 2) Requiring remote release of door locks to allow evacuation within 2 minutes of available staff. 3) Requiring power-operated doors and locks to have manual and emergency power release. 4) Necessitating redundant release controls for remotely operated locks and doors. 5) Enclosing vertical openings between floors, with exceptions if floors are open and egress capacity is sufficient.

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Use and Occupancy Classification Guide

This document discusses requirements for use and occupancy classification related to egress doors, locks, and vertical openings between floor levels in residential buildings. Specifically, it addresses: 1) Allowing egress doors to be locked in accordance with the building's use, and requiring keys to unlock exterior doors from areas of refuge. 2) Requiring remote release of door locks to allow evacuation within 2 minutes of available staff. 3) Requiring power-operated doors and locks to have manual and emergency power release. 4) Necessitating redundant release controls for remotely operated locks and doors. 5) Enclosing vertical openings between floors, with exceptions if floors are open and egress capacity is sufficient.

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  • Locks and Egress Doors

USE AND OCCUPANCY CLASSIFICATION

surface of any glazing affected by fire when actuated.


5. The glazing shall be in a gasketed frame and installed in such a manner that the
framing system will deflect without breaking (loading) the glass before the
sprinkler system operates.
6. Obstructions, such as curtain rods, drapery traverse rods, curtains, drapes or
similar materials shall not be installed between the automatic sprinklers and
the glazing.

2.20.4 Locks. Egress doors are permitted to be locked in accordance with the applicable
use condition. Doors from an area of refuge to the exterior are permitted to be
locked with a key in lieu of locking methods described in Section [Link]. The
keys to unlock the exterior doors shall be available at all times and the locks shall
be operable from both sides of the door.
[Link] Remote release. Remote release of locks on doors in a means of egress shall be
provided with reliable means of operation, remote from the resident living areas, to
release locks on all required doors. In Occupancy Conditions 3 or 4, the
arrangement, accessibility and security of the release mechanism(s) required for
egress shall be such that with the minimum available staff at any time, the lock
mechanisms are capable of being released within 2 minutes.
Exception: Provisions for remote locking and unlocking of occupied rooms in
Occupancy Condition 4 are not required provided that not more than 10 locks are
necessary to be unlocked in order to move occupants from one smoke
compartment to a refuge area within 3 minutes. The opening of necessary locks
shall be accomplished with not more than two separate keys.
[Link] Power-operated doors and locks. Power-operated sliding doors or power-
operated locks for swinging doors shall be operable by a manual release
mechanism at the door, and either emergency power or a remote mechanical
operating release shall be provided.
Exception: Emergency power is not required in facilities with 10 locks or less
complying with the exception to Section [Link].
[Link] Redundant operation. Remote release, mechanically operated sliding doors or
remote release, mechanically operated locks shall be provided with a mechanically
operated release mechanism at each door, or shall be provided with a redundant
remote release control.
[Link] Relock capability. Doors remotely unlocked under emergency conditions shall
not automatically relock when closed unless specific action is taken at the remote
location to enable doors to relock.

2.20.5 Vertical openings. Vertical openings shall be enclosed in accordance with Section
4B.7 of SBC 801.
Exception: A floor opening between floor levels of residential housing areas is
permitted without enclosure protection between the levels, provided that both of
the following conditions are met:
1. The entire normally occupied areas so interconnected are open and
unobstructed so as to enable observation of the areas by supervisory
personnel.
2. Means of egress capacity is sufficient to provide simultaneous egress for all
occupants from all interconnected levels and areas.
The height difference between the highest and lowest finished floor levels shall not
exceed 70 m. Each story, considered separately, has at least one-half of its
individual required means of egress capacity provided by exits leading directly out
of that story without traversing another story within the interconnected area.
SBC 201 2007 2/45

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