Assembly:

Occupant load:
1. auditorium, place of worship, dance floor, and lodge room - 0.65 square meter per person
(concentrated)
2. conference room, dining room, drinking establishment, exhibit room, gymnasium, or lounge -
1.4 square meters per person (less concentrated)
3. Standing room or waiting space - 0.28 square meter per person
4. Area excess of 930 m2 - occupant load shall not exceed one person in 0.65 m 2

5. Excess of 930 m2 – occupant load shall not exceed ion person in 0.46 m 2

Minimum number of exits:

1. The number of means of egress from any balcony, mezzanine, storey, or portion thereof shall

not be less than two (2)

2. More than 500 but not more than 1000 occupant load – means of egress shall not be less than

3. More than 1000 occupant load – shall not be less than 4

Educational occupancy:

Classification of Educational Occupancies:

1. Educational occupancies shall include all buildings used for the gathering of groups of six (6)

or more persons for purposes of instruction, such as schools, universities, colleges, and

academies

2. Educational occupancy includes part-day, nursery schools, kinder- gartens, day care facilities,

and other schools whose purpose is primarily educational even though the children are of pre-

school age

3. Other occupancies associated with educational institutions shall be in accordance with the

appropriate parts of this Chapter

4. In cases where instruction is incidental to some other occupancy the Section of the Chapter

governing such other occupancy shall apply

Occupant load:

1. not be less than one person for each 1.9 m2 square meters of net classroom area

2. or 4.6 square meters of net area of shops, laboratories, and similar vocational room

3. In dry nurseries, the occupant load shall be not less than one person for each 3.3 m 2 square

meters

4. The occupant load of individual lecture rooms, gymnasiums, or cafeterias used for assembly

purposes of more than fifty (50) persons - 1.4 m 2 square meters per person

Minimum number of exits:

1. Every room or space with a capacity of 50 or more persons or over 93 m 2 square meters in

area - at least two 2 doorways as remote from each other

2. Not less than two separate exits shall be provided on every storey and accessible from every

part of every storey and mezzanine

Health care occupancy:

Type of health care occupancy;

1. Hospitals

- A building used for the medical, psychiatric, obstetrical or surgical care, on a 24-hour basis,

of four (4) or more inpatients

- shall include general hospitals, mental hospitals, tuberculosis hospitals, children's hospitals,

and any such facilities providing inpatient care

2. Nursing Home

- A building used for the lodging, boarding and nursing care, on a 24-hour basis, of four (4)

more persons who, because of mental or physical incapacity, maybe unable to provide for

their own needs and safety without the assistance of another person
 - shall include nursing and convalescent homes, skilled nursing facilities, intermediate care

facilities, and infirmaries of homes for the aged

3. Residential Custodial Care Facility

- A building used for the lodging or boarding of four (4) or more persons who are incapable of

self-preservation because of age, or physical or mental limitation

- This includes facilities such as homes for the aged, nurseries (custodial care for children

under six (6) years of age), and mentally retarded care institutions

- Day care facilities that do not provide lodging or boarding for institutional occupants are not

covered in this Division

Occupant load:

1. not less than one (1) persons for each 11.1 m 2 square meters gross floor area in health care

sleeping departments

2. not less than 1 person for each 22.3 m2 square meters of gross floor area of inpatient health

care treatment departments

Number and Types:

1. Exits shall be restricted to the following permissible types;

a. Doors leading directly outside the building

b. Stairs and smoke-proof enclosures

c. Ramps

d. Horizontal exits

e. Exit Passageways

2. At least 2 exits of the above types, remote from each other, shall be provided for each floor or

fire section of the building

3. Elevators constitute a supplementary facility, but-shall not be counted as required exits

Detention and correctional occupancy:

  Detention and correctional occupancies shall include those used for purposes such as

correctional institutions, detention facilities, community residential centers and substance

abuse or rehabilitation centers where occupants are confined or housed under some degree of

restraint or security

Occupancy:

 For the application of the life safety requirements of this Division, the resident user category

shall be divided into the following five groups

1. Use Condition I — Free Egress

 Free movement is allowed from sleeping areas and other spaces where access or

occupancy is permitted to the exterior via means of egress that meet the

requirements of this IRR

2. Use Condition II — Zoned Egress

 Free movement is allowed from sleeping areas and any other occupied smoke

compartment to one or more other smoke compartments

3. Use Condition III — Zoned Impeded Egress

 Free movement is allowed within individual smoke compartments, such as within a

residential unit comprised of individual sleeping rooms and a group activity space,

with egress impeded by remote-controlled release of means of egress from such a

smoke compartment to another smoke compartment

4. Use Condition IV — Impeded Egress

 Free movement is restricted from an occupied space. Remote-controlled release is

provided to allow movement from all sleeping rooms, activity spaces, and other

occupied areas within the smoke compartment to another smoke compartment

5. Use Condition V — Contained

  Free movement is restricted from an occupied space. Staff-controlled manual

release at each door is provided to allow movement from all sleeping rooms, activity

spaces, and other occupied areas within the smoke compartment to another smoke

compartment

 To be classified as Use Condition III or Use Condition IV, the arrangement, accessibility, and

security of the release mechanism(s) used for emergency egress shall be such that the

minimum available staff, at any time, can promptly release the locks

 Area’s housing occupancies corresponding to Use Condition I shall conform to the

requirements of residential occupancies under this Chapter

 Exception: Use Condition I facilities shall be permitted to conform to the requirements of this

Division for Use Condition II facilities, provided that said facilities is provided with a 24-hour on-

duty staff

Occupant load:

 Not less than 1 person for each 11.1 m2 square meters gross floor area

Types of exits:

 Exits shall be restricted to the following permissible types;

a. Doors

b. Stairs and smoke-proof enclosures

c. Horizontal exits

d. Exit passageways

Number of exits:

1. At least 2 exits of the above types, remote from each other, shall be provided for each floor or

fire section of the building

2. Exit access travel shall be permitted to be common path not exceeding 30 meters
Residential occupancy:

Classifications;

1. Hotels – includes buildings or groups of building under the same management in which there

are more than 15 sleeping accommodations for hire, primarily used by transients who are

lodged with or without meals, whether designated as a hotel, inn, motel, or by any other name.

So-called appartelle, condotel or pension houses shall be classified as hotels, because they

are potentially subject to transient occupancy like that of hotels

2. Dormitories – includes buildings where group sleeping accommodation are provided for

persons, not members of the same family group in one room or in series of closely associated

room under joint occupancy and single management, as in college dormitories, convents,

fraternity houses, military barracks, and the like

3. Apartment Buildings – includes buildings containing 3 or more living units independent cooking

and bathroom facilities, whether designated as condominium, row house, apartment house,

tenement, garden apartment, or by any other name

4. Lodging or Rooming Houses – includes building in which separate sleeping rooms are rented

providing sleeping accommodations for a total of 15 or less persons, on either a transient or

permanent basis; with or without meals, but without separate cooking facilities for individual

occupants

5. Single-and-Two Family Dwellings – includes detached dwellings in which each living unit is

occupied by members of a single family

Occupant load:

1. 1 person per 18.6 m2 square meters gross floor area

Except: detached single-or-two-family dwellings

HOTELS AND DORMITORIES:

  Restaurant having a capacity of fifty (50) or more persons shall be treated as places of

assembly

 Any dormitory divided into suites of rooms, with one or more bedrooms opening into a living

room or study that has a door opening into a common corridor serving number of suites, shall

be classified as an apartment building

Exit Details:

1. Requirements;

a. Any room having a capacity of less than 50 persons with an outside door at street or

ground level may have such outside door as a single exit provided that no part of the room

or area is more than 15.25 meters from the door measured along the natural path of travel

b. Any floor below the floor of exit discharge occupied for public purposes shall have exits

arranged in accordance with the subsequent paragraph of this Section, with access thereto

in accordance with Section 10.2.5.2 of this IRR

c. Any floor below the floor of exit discharge not open to the public and used only for

mechanical equipment, storage, and service operations (other than kitchens which are

considered part of the hotel occupancy) shall have exits appropriate to its actual occupancy

in accordance with applicable sections of this Chapter