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    Team 3 - Means of Egress

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    The document outlines requirements for means of egress from buildings, including exit components like doors, stairs, ramps, and passageways. It specifies dimensional criteria for these components to ensure safe evacuation. It also covers illumination, marking, and planning of means of egress, such as through emergency evacuation plans and maps. The goal is to provide unobstructed and clearly marked routes to safely exit buildings during emergencies.

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    MEANS OF EGRESS

    MEANS OF EGRESS
     A means of egress is a continuous and unobstructed
    way of exit travel from any point in a building or
    structure to a public way and consists of three
    separate distinct parts: (1) the way of exit access, (2)
    the exit, and (3) the way of exit discharge.
     It comprises the vertical and horizontal ways of
    travel and shall include intervening room spaces,
    doorways, hallways, corridors, passageways,
    balconies, ramps, stairs, enclosures, lobbies,
    escalators, horizontal exits, courts and yards.
    SECTION 10.2.5.1
    APPLICATION
    It contains general fundamental requirements
    essential to providing a safe means of egress from
    fire and like emergencies
     nothing shall be constructed to prohibit a better
    type of building construction, more exits, or
    otherwise safer conditions than the minimum
    requirement.
    Any change, alteration or addition that would
    reduce the means of egress below the requirements
    for new buildings is prohibited.
    SECTION 10.2.5.2
    GENERAL PROVISIONS
     Exit is required to be protected by separation
    from other parts of the building.
     It also include the occupant load, measurement
    of means of egress, minimum width, number of
    means of egress, arrangement of exits, dead-
    end limits, access to exits, capacity of means of
    egress, and changes in elevation.
     Headroom shall be so designed and maintained
    as to provide adequate headroom
     Capacity Factor
    Area Stairways Level components
    (width per person) and ramps
    (width per person)
    Board and Care 10.0mm 5.0mm
    Health Care, Sprinklered 7.6mm 5.0mm
    Health Care, non 15.0mm 13.0mm
    Sprinklered
    High Hazards 18.0mm 10.0mm
    All others 7.6mm 5.0mm
    SECTION 10.2.5.3
    DOORS
     Every door and every principal entrance
    which are required to serve as an exit shall be
    designed and constructed that the way of
    exit is obvious and direct.
     The door assembly required by this section
    shall comply with the fire protection rating.
     Doors should be side-hinged or pivoted-
    swinging type. It should swing through the
    direction of egress travel when used in an exit
    enclosure.
    SECTION 10.2.5.4
    STAIRS
     All stairways designated as a means of egress shall
    be continuous from the uppermost floor level down
    to the ground floor.
     Dimensional Criteria for new stairs

    FEATURE DIMENSION
    Minimum Width See table of new stair width
    Maximum height of risers 180mm
    Minimum height of risers 100mm
    Minimum tread depth 280mm
    Minimum headroom 2,000mm
    Maximum height between landings 3,660mm
     Dimensional Criteria for Existing Stairs
    Feature Dimensions

    Minimum width clear of all 915mm


    obstructions, except projections not
    more than 114mm at or below
    handrail height on each side
    Maximum height of risers 205mm

    Minimum tread depth 230mm


    Minimum headroom 2,000mm
    Maximum height between landings 3,660mm
     New stairs width
    Total Cumulative Occupant Load Width
    Assigned to the Stair

    <2,000 persons 1,120mm

    ≥2,000 persons 1,420mm

     Curved stairs depth tread is not less than


    280mm at a point 305mm from the narrowest
    end of the tread.
     Stair details shall be permanent fixed
    construction.
    SECTION 10.2.5.5
    OUTSIDE STAIRS
     Stairs and other exits shall be so arranged as
    to clear the direction of egress to the street.
     Any permanently installed stair outside of the
    building being served is acceptable as a
    means of egress under the same condition.
     Enclosure of inside stairways is required,
    outside stairs shall be separated from the
    interior of the buildings with walls having the
    same fire-resistance rating.
    SECTION 10.2.5.6
    HORIZONTAL EXITS
     Is a way of passage from one building to an
    area of refuge in another building on
    approximately the same level.
     It may be substituted for other exits to an
    extent that the total exit capacity of the other
    exits(stairs, ramps, doors leading outside the
    building) will not be reduced below half that
    required for the entire area.
    SECTION 10.2.5.7
    RAMPS
     A ramp shall be permitted as component in a means
    of egress when it conforms to the general
    requirement of Section 10.2.5.2 of the RIRR.
     Dimensional Criteria for New Ramps
    Feature Dimensions

    Minimum width clear of all obstructions, 1,120mm


    except projections not more than 114mm
    at or below handrail height on each side

    Maximum slope 1:12


    Maximum cross slope 1:48
    Maximum rise for a single ramp run 760mm
    SECTION 10.2.5.8
    EXIT PASSAGEWAYS
     Every building or structure, new or old, designed
    for human occupancy shall be provided exits.
     Any hallway, corridor, passage or tunnel, may be
    designated as an exit passageway and used as an
    exit or component when conforming to all
    applicable requirement of Section 10.2.5.2 of this
    RIRR.
     The width of an exit passageway shall be
    adequate to accommodate the aggregate
    capacity of all exits discharging through it.
     The floor should be solid and without
    perforations.
    SECTION 10.2.5.9
    ESCALATORS AND MOVING WALKS

     Escalators and moving walks shall not


    constitute as part of the required means of
    egress, unless they are previously approved
    existing escalators and moving walks.
    SECTION 10.2.5.10
    FIRE ESCAPE STAIRS, LADDER, AND SLIDE ESCAPES

     It should be safe path of travel to the ground


    or other area of refuge to which they lead.
     Fire escape may be used in single and two-
    family dwellings and residential apartments
    of not more than 3 storey.
     Slide escape shall be rated at one exit unit per
    slide, with rated travel capacity of sixty
    persons per minute.
    SECTION 10.2.5.11
    ILLUMINATION OF MEANS OF EGRESS

     Every building or structure equipped for


    artificial illumination, adequate and reliable
    illumination shall be provided for all exit
    facilities.
     The floors of means of egress shall be
    illuminated at all points including angles and
    intersections of corridors and passageways,
    landings of stairs, and exit doors.
    SECTION 10.2.5.12
    EXIT MARKING
     Exit marking shall be marked by a readily
    visible sign.
     Every exit shall be clearly visible or the route
    to reach it shall be conspicuously indicated in
    such manner that every occupant of every
    building or structure who is physically and
    mentally capable will readily know the
    direction of escape from any point.
    SECTION 10.2.5.13
    EMERGENCY EVACUATION PLAN
     Strategic locations in the building containing the ff:
    -fire exits
    -primary route to exit (nearest to the viewer)
    -secondary route to exit ( second nearest to the viewer)
    -fire alarm pull stations and annunciators
    -fire extinguisher/hose cabinets
    -emergency light
    -first aid kits location (if applicable)
    -emergency call station (if applicable)
    -areas of safe refuge (for high rise building)
    -assembly areas instruction
    -”In case of emergency” instructions
     Symbols/icons/logos to be used for marking
    shall be in accordance to Standard for Signs
    and Symbols
     The wall mounted maps shall be oriented to
    correspond to the actual floor layout as
    perceived by the viewer.

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