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counted starting at the lowest floor of exit discharge. All levels below
the floor of exit discharge shall be separated from the floor of exit
discharge by at least protected non-combustible construction.
2. Health care buildings two (2) storeys or more shall be at least fire-
resistive construction.
3. Health care occupancies two (2) or more storeys shall have enclosure
walls of non-combustible materials having a fire resistance rating of at
least two (2) hours around stairways, elevators, chutes, and other
vertical openings between floors.
4. All interior walls and partitions in buildings of fire-resistive and non-
combustible construction shall be composed on non-combustible
materials.
5. Every health care sleeping room shall have an outside window or
outside door arranged and located so that it can be opened from the
inside without the use of tools or keys to permit the products of
combustion and to permit any occupant to have direct access to
fresh air in case of emergency. The maximum allowable sill height shall
not exceed ninety one centimeters (91 cm) above the floor except
that in special nursing care areas the window sill may be one and a
half meters (1.5 m) above the floor.
C. Construction of Corridor Walls
1. Corridors shall be separated from use areas by partitions having a fire-
resistance rating of at least one (1) hour.
2. These walls shall be continuous from the floor slab to the underside of
the floor or rood slab above, through any concealed spaces such as
those above the, suspended ceilings and through interstitial structural
and mechanical spaces.
3. Doors with a twenty (20) minute fire protection rating shall be used on
openings other than those serving exits or hazardous areas. Doors shall
be provided with latches of a type suitable for keeping the door tightly
closed.
4. Transfer grills, whether protected by fusible link-operated dampers or
not, shall not be used in these walls or doors.
5. Fixed wired glass vision panels may be placed in corridor walls,
provided they do not exceed eighty four-hundredth square meters
(0.84 m2) in size and are installed in approved steel frames. Fixed wired
glass vision panels may be installed in wooden doors, provided they
do not exceed forty six-hundredth square meters (0.46 m2) size and
are installed in approved steel frames.
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