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a smoke partition. Openings in walls or partition, used to allow the
passage of light shall be wired glass set in metal frames.
b. Every door opening therein shall be protected with a fire assembly
as required in this Chapter, but not less than a self-closing or auto-
matic closing, tight-fitting smoke assembly having a fire-protection
rating of not less than twenty (20) minutes.
c. Ducts penetrating atmospheric separation walls, partitions or floors,
shall be equipped with an approved automatic-closing smoke
damper when having openings into more than one atmosphere or
atmospheric separation shall be maintained by an approved
method of smoke control.
d. All automatic-closing fire assemblies installed in the atmospheric
separation shall be activated by approved smoke detectors.
e. Janitor closets and storage rooms shall be enclosed by materials
having one-hour fire resistance. Stages and enclosed platform shall
be constructed in accordance with Division 8.
D. Means of Egress
1. Each room occupied by more than three hundred (300) persons shall
have one of its exit access through a separate means of egress. Where
three (3) or more means of egress are required, not more than two (2)
of them shall enter into the same means of egress.
2. Means of egress from interior rooms may pass through an adjoining or
in intervening room, provided that the travel distance do not exceed
those set forth in the succeeding paragraph entitled Travel Distance of
Exit. Foyers and lobbies constructed as required for corridors shall not
be construed as intervening rooms. Where the only means of egress
from a room is through an adjoining or intervening room, smoke
detectors shall be installed in the area of common atmosphere
through which the means of egress must pass. The detectors shall
actuate alarms audible in the interior room and shall be connected to
the school fire alarm system.
E. Travel Distance to Exits
No point in a building shall be more than forty six (46) meters from an exit,
measured in accordance with Section 10.2.5.2 of this IRR.
F. Interior Finish
Interior finish in flexible plan and open plan buildings shall be as follows:
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