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Emergency rooms, operating rooms, intensive care units, delivery rooms
and other similar facilities shall not be located more than one (1) storey
above or below the floor of exit discharge. In existing buildings where any
of the aforementioned facilities are located above or below the floor of
exit discharge, same shall be equipped with ramps complying with
Section 10.2.5.7 of this IRR.
D. New Construction, Additions, Conversion
1. Any addition shall be separated from any existing non-conforming
structure by a non-combustible fire partition having at least a 2-hour
fire resistance rating. Communicating openings in such dividing fire
partition shall occur only in corridors and shall be protected by an
approved self-closing fire door. Such doors shall normally be kept
closed.
2. Any building converted to these occupancies shall comply with all
requirements for new facilities.
E. Occupancy and Occupant Load
1. Health care occupancies in buildings housing other occupancies shall
be completely separated from them by noncombustible construction
having at least a two (2)-hour fire-resistance rating. All means of egress
from health care occupancies that traverse non-health care spaces
shall conform to requirements of this standard for health care
occupancies. Any occupancy with a hazard of contents classified
higher than that of the health care and located in the same building
as health care occupancies shall be protected. Industrial, office,
mercantile and storage occupancies categorized as high hazard shall
not be permitted in buildings housing health care occupancies.
2. Sections of health care buildings may be classified as other occu-
pancies if they meet at the following conditions:
a. They are not intended to serve health care occupants for purposes
of housing, treatment, customary access, or means of egress.
b. They are adequately separated from areas of health care occu-
pancies by construction having a two-(2) hour fire resistance rating.
3. Auditoriums, chapels, staff residential areas, garages or similar oc-
cupancies provided in connection with health care occupancy shall
have exits provided in accordance with other applicable sections of
this Chapter.
4. The occupant load for which means of egress shall be provided for
any floor shall be the maximum number of persons intended to
occupy that floor but not less than one (1) persons for each eleven
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