Can a "space" that contains more than one "room", such as a suite of offices, be provided with a single exit access doorway in accordance with the provisions of Section 1015.1 of the International Building Code? click to continue
A modification to incidental accessory occupancies (Table 508.2.5) has been made to the 2009 International Building Code (IBC). Parking garages and storage rooms are no longer regulated as incidental accessory occupancies. A modification to loading conditions on cantilevered decks (Section 1604.8.3) has also been made in the 2009 IBC. Previous code language had been modified to address the situation in which the load on the cantilevered portion of a deck span could produce uplift at the support remote from the support at the cantilever, which is consistent with the intent of the distribution of live loads in Section 1607.10. click to continue
Accessibility requirements primarily exist to allow equal access to all the places where people want to live, work and play. Current building codes address viewing events at recreational facilities with assembly seating requirements (including team and player seating); what the codes are branching out into is access to participation in the recreation activity itself. click to continue
Many academic planners assumed that the coming of the Internet would lead to the decline of the library as we know it. To the contrary, many academic libraries have experienced significantly increased patron use in recent years. click to continue