Patriot911
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so after ten years you can not point to one code change
Yet another example of the utter dishonesty and completely despicable nature of eots. He DEMANDS links. We give him links. Does he read them? Who knows. But he invariably comes back with bullshit statements like the ones above. What a fucking piece of shit loser!
Code changes that have been put in place:
•An additional (third) exit stairway for buildings more than 420 feet high.
•An increase of 50 percent in the width of exit stairways in new sprinklered buildings.
•Permitting the use of elevators for occupant evacuation in fires and other emergencies for all buildings, and as an alternative to the required additional exit stairway for buildings more than 420 feet high. Passenger elevators must meet specific criteria to be used for evacuation purposes.
•Hardening of exit stairway and passageway enclosures, and elevator shaft enclosures, in buildings—for all buildings more than 420 feet high, for buildings 75-420 feet high where failure of the enclosure would substantially jeopardize human life, and in essential facilities such as hospitals.
•Separating exit stairway enclosures by a distance not less than 30 feet or not less than one-fourth of the maximum building diagonal, whichever is less. For example, a building with a 50-foot by 50-foot floor plan would have a diagonal of about 70 feet. One-fourth of 70 is 17.5 feet, which would be the minimum distance required between exits (since it is less than 30 feet).
•A minimum of one fire service access elevator for buildings more than 120 feet high.
•Fire service access elevator lobby sizes that are a minimum of 150 square feet in area with sides at least 8 feet long.
http://www.continuitycentral.com/news04193.html