Flashing, hey requirement on all buildings per IBC. Something many designers try to avoid and may don’t think they need. It is there to help protect the integrity/longevity of the building. If you don’t see the flashing then your not doing it right.
Category: ARE
ARE, Building Code, Common Path, Dead End, Deadend, Exit, NFPA, Suites, Travel distance, Travel path
Deadend & Common Path of Travel 30-0
by Marty •
Deadend and Common Path of Travel can be confusing. Hope this video can help with some of its understanding. Most of the time we have a choice of two ways to get out of a SPACE, and that is your common path of travel. From the most remote point in the building or space to a decision point to go to exit “A” or exit “B” to get out of the space, that is your decision point/common path of travel.
Understand that “commen path of travel” is not appiclible to hospitals. Hospitals have “suites” and “intervening rooms” other video cover those topics
ARE
ARE Help
by Marty •
I have added a category for ARE. So to the left, under categories you can select the videos I have taged “ARE” Architecture Registration Exam, I believe they would help understand some concepts regarding building code like travel distances
ARE, Building Code, Extinguisher, Fire Protection
Sprinkler Head painted 26-0
by Marty •
Painting sprinkler heads, can you paint the fire sprinkler’s head, can you paint the sprinkler head escutcheon or cover plate.
ARE, Extinguisher, Fire Extinguisher Labeling, Fire Protection
Fire Extinguisher Labeling 25-0
by Marty •
Fire extinguisher classifications/labeling what kind of fire extinguisher to put out your standard home fires. What kind of extinguisher will put out ordinary wood and clothing and what kind of fire extinguisher is best for only electrical fires. Is there a special fire extinguisher for MRI, yes the housing should be nonferrous/non-magnetic.
ARE, Building Code, Door, Exiting, stair Design, Type of Construction
Exit / Exterior Walls 19-0
by Marty •
Ratings of exterior wall where an exit or horizontal exit meets the exterior wall. Picture wall is not required to be rated if the adjoining walls around the exit on the exterior are all 180 degrees or greater. Where the walls are less than 180° you joining walls shall be rated one hour 10 feet beyond the exit walls.
ARE, Common Path, Door, door size, Exiting, Travel path
Door Encroachment 18-0
by Marty •
The distance a door is allowed to encroach into a hallway/corridor/exit way or path of travel out of the building. If a door opens on to a required exit width this video talks to how much it’s allowed to encroach. 7 inches is the max when the door is in its fully open position that it’s allowed to encroach. Otherwise if the door opens 180° the radius in which it opens that radius cannot encroach more than one half during that swing.
ARE, Building Code, Building Size, Occupant type, Type of Construction
Building Height & Area 17-0
by Marty •
IBC table 503 has a direct relationship to table 601. Where table 601 talks to construction type, table 503 talks to occupancy type and construction type and how they relate. So looking at this table it speaks to how large a wood structure could be and what building types it’s allowed to serve.
ARE, Building Code, Building Size, Concrete, Fire Protection, Steel, Type of Construction
Type of Construction 16-0
by Marty •
Type of construction table 601 and NFPA 220 both speak to the types of material you’re allowed to use. Both of these tables and sections relate to other sections of the code that speaks to how big or how tall your allowed to build building. For instance code wise you’re not allowed to build a building out of wood if it’s over a certain amount of square footage. Likewise you not allowed to use would be the building of different heights in concealed spaces i.e. your on allowed to build your Interior partition walls of wood on a high-rise. This table does not speak to those locations it only gives you the definition of the building types. Table 503 speaks to hide insights that directly relates to take 601.
ARE, Building Code, Exiting, Fire Protection
Fire Extinguishers Locations 14-0
by Marty •
Fire extinguishers and their locations. The matter how you look at this is going to cost someone money. Fire extinguishers are required to be inspected monthly, documented for both local and federal agencies depending on the type of building our occupancy you have. Healthcare for instance with all the regulations they need to follow, fire extinguishers on average cost $500-$800 per year just for inspections. So an architect or engineer placing too many fire extinguishers in the building can easily cost the owner quite a bit more money. At a facility I reviewed a few years ago we counted between 15 and 25 more fire extinguishers per floor them they needed. They had five floors that is about 125 more fire extinguishers than required assuming the minimum amount of dollars for inspection, $500, this equates to about $62,000 per year for inspections only a fire extinguisher is not required or needed. This is an ongoing cost, so in 10 years this is easily $620,000 that could have been spent better for our healthcare facilities. Take time to analyze every fire extinguisher removed those that are not needed or required. This all needs to be documented with your local AHJ. This can be done at any time you discover you have too many. But the whole floor or area should be analyzed as a whole.
ARE, Building Code, Common Path, Dead End, Deadend, Exiting, occupant Load, stair Design, Travel distance, Travel path
Dead End 13-0
by Marty •
Dead End, this and common path of travel are two of the most confusing topics. People can relate these two topics and think they’re one. They are not they are two separate individual code issues.
ADA, ARE, Building Code, Shower
ADA Transfer Shower 11-0
by Marty •
ADA transfer showers, probably one of the most confused/misunderstood ADA topics
ARE, door size, Exiting, occupant Load, stair Design, Travel path
Stair & Stair Door size change 10-0
by Marty •
This video covers how and why stair doors and stairs may change in width. This is additional follow-up on the design of stairs from previous videos. This covers stairs coming from a vertical height also coming from a basement and how the door width will change at the exit landing.
ARE, stair Design
Stair Design General 9-0
by Marty •
General design parameters for stairs. Stair riser height stair tread depth, measurement of tread width, assuming fully sprinkled building rectangle stairs. understanding Door swing into stairwell.
ARE, Common Path, Dead End, Deadend, Exiting, Travel distance, Travel path
Common Path of Travel 8-0
by Marty •
Common path of travel, commonly misunderstood topic. Confused with Deadend Corridor too many times. Most occupancies common at the travel is limited to 75 feet. H occupancy or Hazard occupancies or space travel is 25 feet. Most are allowed to increase if the building is fully sprinkled/fire protected
ARE, door size, Exiting, occupant Load
Exit inches for doors & stairs 7-0
by Marty •
This video focus on calculating exit inches required for doors and stairs. How they differ and how/why they are important to calculate.
I have taught myself something by producing this video. Never could figure out/remember was it .2 or .3 door or .2 or .3 for a stair. While putting this together I realized you come to a door before you come to stair. You come to .2 before you come to .3. —– .2 is for doors .3 is for stairs. I now no longer have to look this up every single time.
ARE, door size, Exiting, occupant Load
Occupant Load 6-0
by Marty •
How many people can fit in a spaceBuilding code understanding/calculation of how to determine how many people allowed to sit. Which then drives how many doors, how big the doors can be. Upcoming videos will cover your location and/or size
ARE, Exiting, Exiting, Smoke Compartments, Travel distance
Travel distance to an exit 2-0
by Marty •
Travel distance to an exit, this is dealing with namely travel distance to an exit in healthcare and dealing with smoke compartments.