Add to ORKGFrom the flat entrance door, a single escape route is acceptable in either of the following cases. a. The flat is on a storey served by a single common stair and both of the following apply. i. Every flat is separated from the common stair by a protected lobby or common protected corridor (see Diagram 3.7). ii. The maximum travel distance in Table 3.1, for escape in one direction only, is not exceeded. b. The flat is in a dead end of a common corridor served by two (or more) common stairs and the maximum travel distance given in Table 3.1, for escape in one direction only, is not exceeded (Diagram 3.8)
Single steps on escape routes should be prominently marked. A single step on the line of a doorway i...
A person escaping through the common area, if confronted by the effects of a fire in another flat, s...
Doors should be readily openable to avoid undue delay to people escaping. Doors on escape routes (bo...
a. SMALL SINGLE STAIR BUILDING *If smoke control is provided in the lobby, the travel distance can ...
An escape route should not pass through one stair enclosure to reach another. It may pass through a ...
NOTES: 1. If travel distance is measured to a stair lobby, the lobby must not provide direct access...
Any alternative exit from a flat should comply with all of the following. a. It should be remote fr...
All habitable rooms (excluding kitchens) should have either of the following. a. An emergency escap...
Usually, it is required by building codes that two or more escape routes be available from every poi...
For flats serving as a workplace for both occupants and people who do not live on the premises, prov...
All doors on escape routes should be hung to meet both of the following conditions. a. Open by a mi...
Where more than one escape route is available from a storey (or part of a building), then some of th...
Where a storey or part of a building has multiple escape routes available, one may be over a flat ro...
The following paragraphs deal with means of escape from the entrance doors of flats to a final exi...
One of the following approaches should be adopted, observing the inner room restrictions described i...
Single steps on escape routes should be prominently marked. A single step on the line of a doorway i...
A person escaping through the common area, if confronted by the effects of a fire in another flat, s...
Doors should be readily openable to avoid undue delay to people escaping. Doors on escape routes (bo...
a. SMALL SINGLE STAIR BUILDING *If smoke control is provided in the lobby, the travel distance can ...
An escape route should not pass through one stair enclosure to reach another. It may pass through a ...
NOTES: 1. If travel distance is measured to a stair lobby, the lobby must not provide direct access...
Any alternative exit from a flat should comply with all of the following. a. It should be remote fr...
All habitable rooms (excluding kitchens) should have either of the following. a. An emergency escap...
Usually, it is required by building codes that two or more escape routes be available from every poi...
For flats serving as a workplace for both occupants and people who do not live on the premises, prov...
All doors on escape routes should be hung to meet both of the following conditions. a. Open by a mi...
Where more than one escape route is available from a storey (or part of a building), then some of th...
Where a storey or part of a building has multiple escape routes available, one may be over a flat ro...
The following paragraphs deal with means of escape from the entrance doors of flats to a final exi...
One of the following approaches should be adopted, observing the inner room restrictions described i...
Single steps on escape routes should be prominently marked. A single step on the line of a doorway i...
A person escaping through the common area, if confronted by the effects of a fire in another flat, s...
Doors should be readily openable to avoid undue delay to people escaping. Doors on escape routes (bo...