This document classifies and provides requirements for various types of residential occupancies including hotels, dormitories, apartment buildings, lodging houses, and single/two-family dwellings. It addresses requirements for means of egress, occupant load calculation, exit capacity, maintenance and protection of exits, alarm systems, and building service equipment.
This document classifies and provides requirements for various types of residential occupancies including hotels, dormitories, apartment buildings, lodging houses, and single/two-family dwellings. It addresses requirements for means of egress, occupant load calculation, exit capacity, maintenance and protection of exits, alarm systems, and building service equipment.
This document classifies and provides requirements for various types of residential occupancies including hotels, dormitories, apartment buildings, lodging houses, and single/two-family dwellings. It addresses requirements for means of egress, occupant load calculation, exit capacity, maintenance and protection of exits, alarm systems, and building service equipment.
This document classifies and provides requirements for various types of residential occupancies including hotels, dormitories, apartment buildings, lodging houses, and single/two-family dwellings. It addresses requirements for means of egress, occupant load calculation, exit capacity, maintenance and protection of exits, alarm systems, and building service equipment.
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RESIDENTIAL OCCUPANCIES
CLASSIFICATION RESIDENTIAL OCCUPANCIES HOTELS • Building or group of buildings • More than 15 sleeping accommodations
• DORMITORIES • Buildings that are group sleeping accommodation are provided per persons • Joint occupancy and single management
APARTMENT BUILDINGS • Buildings containing three (3) or more living units • With independent cooking and bathroom facilities LODGING OR ROOMING HOUSES • Building in which separate sleeping rooms are rented • Accommodations have a total of fifteen (15) persons or less • Without separate cooking facilities for individual occupants.
SINGLE OR TWO- FAMILY DWELLINGS
• A stand-alone house occupied by members of a single family. REQUIREMENTS OCCUPANT LOAD • One (1) person per eighteen and six tenths square meters (18.6 m2) gross floor. • In determining exit capacity the occupant load of any open or balcony must consider also.
CAPACITY OF EXITS • Capacity of means of exit shall be in accordance with para “C” of Section 10.2.5.2 (GENERAL PROVISIONS) MAINTENANCE OF EXITS 1. No door in any means of egress shall be locked against exit when the building is occupied.
2. No residential occupancy shall have its means of
egress pass through any nonresidential occupancy in the same building.
3. No guest room or guest suite shall be permitted to
be located above a nonresidential occupancy, except the room have separate exit from the nonresidential HOTELS AND DORMITORIES
REQUIREMENTS • Public assembly shall be in accordance, with Division 8 ( PLACES OF ASSEMBLY ) example Restaurant having a capacity of fifty (50) or more • Apartment building. Any dormitory divided into suites of rooms, with one (1) or more bedrooms opening into living room or study that has a door opening into a common corridor serving number of suites EXIT DETAILS
• Any room have less than fifty (50) person capacity
must have no area or space more than 15.25 meters measured from along the path. • Any exit shall be 30m from the door of any room • All exits shall accordance with section 10.2.5.2 of RRIR • Exits shall terminate to the street or a yard • Vertical openings shall be enclosed with section 10.2.5.2 PROTECTION OF THE BUILDING • Must have fire detection and alarm system • Every hazardous area shall be separated from other parts of the building
BUILDING SERVICE EQUIPEMENT
• Air-conditioning and ventilation • Shall comply with Division 7 (BUILDING SERVICES EQUIPMENT) APPARTMENT BUILDINGS
GENERAL REQUIREMENTS • the preceding requirements of this Section for hotels may be considered as a hotel and, the following requirements for apartment buildings will not be applicable. • Shall at least comply with the minimum provisions of Section 10.2.14.6 EXIT DETAILS GENERAL TYPES AND CAPACITIES OF EXITS Exits should have the same arrangement, types and capacities Street floor exits shall be sufficient for the occupant load plus the required capacity of stairs and ramps NUMBER OF EXITS Every living unit shall have access to at least 2 separate exits Exceptions: • Any living unit that has a direct access to the street yard or an outside stairway with a maximum of 2 units • Not more than 3 storey, not more than 6 living units per floor, with a smoke-proof or outside stairway as the exit. • All corridors serving to exits at least 1 hour. MINIMUM CORRIDOR More than 50 person not less than 1.12m - not more than 50 person not less than 0.91m ACCESS TO EXITS Exits shall be remote from each other, required by Section 10.2.5.2 DISCHARGE FROM EXITS Discharge from exits shall be the same as required for hotels LIGHTING AND SIGNS Every public space, hallway, stairway, and other means of egress shall have illumination PROTECTION SEGREGATION OF DWELLING UNITS - Dwelling units in row apartments shall be separated PROTECTION OF VERTICAL OPENINGS - There shall be no unprotected vertical opening in any building ALARM SYSTEM – 4 story or more than 12 units shall have fire detection and alarm system EXTINGUISHING REQUIREMENTS -Portable fire extinguisher shall be installed - all apartments except row houses shall be installed with sprinkler system HAZARDOUS AREAS BOTH FIRE -resistant construction and automatic fire suppression system shall be provided where the hazard is high as determined by the C/MFM having jurisdiction.
BUILDING SERVICES EQUIPMENT
• Should have Air conditioning and ventilation, when provided LODGING OR ROOMING HOUSES
MEANS OF ESCAPE REQUIREMENTS:
1. Every sleeping room and living area shall have access to two (2) means of escape 2. Every sleeping room above or below the street floor shall have access to two (2) separate means of exit 3. All exits shall be arranged to provide a safe path of travel to the outside of the building 4. Any sleeping room below the street floor shall have direct access to the outside or the building. ALARM SYSTEM
• manual fire alarm system shall be
provided • Every sleeping room must have single station-smoke or heat detector SINGLE AND TWO FAMILY DWELINGS
•MEANS OF ESCAPE REQUIREMENTS:
•1. Every sleeping room and living area shall have access to two (2) means of escape •2. Every sleeping room must have atleast one (1) outside window • No exits must be less than nine hundred millimeters wide ( 900mm) • No doors must be less than seven hundred millimeters wide (700mm) BUILDING SERVICE EQUIPMENT
• No heating equipment such as stove or
combustion heater located in the path of escape • Each living unit or sleeping room shall be installed with single-station smoke or heat detectors. • Each single and two -family dwelling must have one portable fire extinguishers
