1 Hour Smoke Barrier Door Requirements

This standard regulates the installation and maintenance of assemblies and devices used to protect openings in walls floors and ceilings against the spread of fire and smoke within into or out of buildings.

1 hour smoke barrier door requirements.

Louvers are not allowed in doors in smoke partitions. Corridor walls that are required to be fire partitions with a 1 hour or hour rating other fire partitions with a hour rating and smoke barriers with a 1 hour rating. Lation of smoke doors to be in accordance with nfpa 105 standard for the installation of smoke door assemblies and other opening protectives. For testing requirements see section 715 4 3.

4 3 2 1 1 2 3 3ª 1 1 2 1 1 2 fire barriers having a required fire resistance rating of 1 hour. The ibc mandates fire door assemblies with a 20 minute rating in 3 locations. Section 709 3 of the ibc establishes the requirement for smoke barriers to possess a 1 hour fire resistance rating. 715 4 3 door assemblies in corridors and smoke barriers.

Two doors each with a fire protection rating of 1 hours installed on opposite sides of the same opening in a fire wall shall be deemed equivalent in fire protection rating to one 3 hour fire door. 715 3 5 3 smoke and draft control door labeling requirements. Doors in smoke barriers there are three use groups in the ibc that mention smoke barriers. Type of assembly required assembly rating hours minimum fire door fire assembly fire rating hours fire walls and fire barriershaving a required fire resistance rating greater than 1 hour.

In existing health care occupancies the requirement is reduced to a half hour fire resistance rating. When the 1 hour smoke barrier is in a health care occupancy the ibc and nfpa 101 include an. Section 407 4 i 2 408 6 i 3 and 422 2. 1 1 1 with the exception of fabric fire safety curtain assemblies this standard addresses assemblies that have.

Any penetrations of the smoke barrier must be sealed to maintain the fire resistance and to ensure that the barrier is relatively smoke tight. A 1 1 see annex k for general information about fire doors. The doors in the smoke barrier may or may not be required to be fire protection rated. The primary difference between smoke barriers and smoke partitions originates from their required fire resistance ratings.

The fire protection ratings of the protective openings on smoke barriers are required to be a minimum of 1 3 hour 20 minutes or at least a door that is 1 inches thick solid core door with.