Provides knowledge of requirements for means of egress including practice solving problems from a set of plans for a 4-story commercial building related to each egress issue.
Objectives
Upon completing this seminar, participants will be able to:
List and describe each of the 3 parts of a means of egress
Identify the 7 fundamental means of egress design issues
Calculate occupant load and determine required means of egress capacity
Determine required number of exits
Determine requirements for arrangement means of egress facilities, including:
Remote location of doors and exits
Exit access travel distance
Common paths of travel
Egress through adjoining spaces
Determine the requirements for fire resistance rated construction for egress elements, including corridors, stairway and exit enclosures, lobbies, vestibules, areas of refuge, and horizontal exits.
Determine the requirements for design of egress elements, including corridors, stairway and exit enclosures, lobbies, vestibules, areas of refuge, and horizontal exits.
Determine requirements for door hardware, including panic hardware, door latching devices, door opening, and requirements for power-operated doors.
Determine requirements for locations and amounts of means of egress lighting and signage.
Evaluate the adequacy of a horizontal exit as part of a means of egress plan.
Evaluate the means of egress in assembly spaces.
Determine requirements for exit access widths in smoke-protected assembly seating.
Evaluate the adequacy of accessible means of egress.
Instructor
Gary
L. Nelson, P.E. Gary is currently a Senior Staff Engineer for ICC in the Architectural &
Engineering Services Plan Review Department in the Chicago Regional Office.
As a senior staff engineer, he is responsible for conducting building plan
reviews of proposed construction, writing and dispensing verbal code interpretations,
assisting in the production of training products, and teaching seminars.
He has worked for ICC and the legacy BOCA organization for 20 years. Prior
to joining ICC, he was a design engineer for over 10 years with the Chicago
Bridge and Iron Company where he was assigned to engineering departments
responsible for the design and construction of steel fabricated structures
to industry-related codes and standards.
Mr. Nelson has a Bachelor of Science degree
in Civil Engineering from the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology
and is a licensed Professional Engineer in the states of Illinois and Alabama.
Gary teaches building code and residential code seminars.
