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Electric Room Door Swing


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Electric Room Door Swing. Exit and exit access doors serving electrical rooms and working spaces shall swing in the direction of egress travel and shall be equipped with panic hardware or fire exit hardware where such rooms or working spaces contain one or more of the following: A few questions must be answered to determine if an electrical room door needs to open in the direction of egress and have panic hardware.


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Is there electrical equipment in the room, rated 800 amps or more, that contains overcurrent devices, switching devices, or control devices? Exit and exit access doors serving electrical rooms and working spaces shall swing in the direction of egress travel and shall be equipped with panic hardware or fire exit hardware where such rooms or working spaces contain one or more of the following: Swinging doors serving a group h occupancy and swinging doors serving rooms or spaces with an occupant load of 50 or more in a.

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Swinging doors serving a group h occupancy and swinging doors serving rooms or spaces with an occupant load of 50 or more in a. Are the doors to an electrical room, with 3hr rated concrete walls and transformers over 150kva, required to have the doors swing out. A few questions must be answered to determine if an electrical room door needs to open in the direction of egress and have panic hardware. Both the nec and the ibc require that equipment rated at greater than 1200 amps have doors serving the room at least 24 inches in width.

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