I have a question about an R2 occupancy I'm working on. This relates to 903.3.1.2.1 in the 2009 IBC. This living facility has what I would consider fake patios on some of the rooms. They are shallow, only about 3' wide, and they are not normally useable. What I mean by that is there are railings at the outside edge with no openings, and there are no doors accessing them from the dwelling unit. So to get onto this thing, you would have to hop the railing or crawl through a normal size window. I couldn't find a definition in the IBC for whether a patio/deck /balcony is only considered that if its accessible or not.
This building is definitely type V construction, so this would apply, but does the IBC make any differentiation in terms of the balcony being accessible, or just being an architectural feature. Has anyone encountered this before? The other slight issue is that technically the code being enforced still references the 2006 IBC, but I only have a 2009 copy. I can't hope that this was new, can I? I actually have a rendered image of what I'm talking about if that helps. http://www.bseg-ce.com/port_hopewell.html Look at the two first floor cut-ins on either side of the person in that rendering to see what I'm talking about. Any help would be appreciated. Thanks, Benjamin Young, CET Sobieski Fire Protection _______________________________________________ Sprinklerforum mailing list [email protected] http://fireball.firesprinkler.org/mailman/listinfo/sprinklerforum For Technical Assistance, send an email to: [email protected] To Unsubscribe, send an email to:[email protected] (Put the word unsubscribe in the subject field)
