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Glass door egress percentage.
Fire rated glass in exits this article explains the origins of codes related to exits and means of egress and the definition of components of means of egress.
For example if a door in a nonsprinklered building has a clear opening width of 32 inches the egress capacity of that door would be 32 inches 0 2 inches per occupant 160 occupants.
Before the 2012 ibc the code provided for an exception that allowed fire protective glazing such as ceramics and wired glass to exceed 100 sq.
Glass doors by definition in the iecc are considered to be those which are more than 50 percent glass in area.
Inches in door vision panels in 60 90 minute exit enclosure and passageway doors provided that building was fully sprinklered.
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So if a room is 10 feet wide x 12 feet long then the room area would be 120 square feet and the minimum size of the window in that room would have to be12 square feet.
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The u factor requirements discussed above for vertical fenestration also apply to exterior glass doors.
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Code change clarifies glazing panel size in 60 90 minute exit enclosure exist passageway doors.
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