Egregious Egress & Exiting
All About Accessibility & Clearances
Construction Types, Occupancy, & Fire Protection Oh My!
Architectural Wild Cards
100
The building code’s definition of this term is: That portion of exit access travel distance measured from the most remote point of each room, area or space to that point where the occupants have separate and distinct access to two exits or exit access doorways.
What is Common Path of Egress Travel?
100
Where a forward reach is unobstructed, the high forward reach shall meet this dimension, while the low forward reach shall be 15 inches min. above the floor.
What is 48 inches?
100
These three factors that determine the general mass of a single-occupancy building are limited by the construction type and occupancy.
What are building height, number of stories, and building area?
100
Among music, painting, sculpture, and literature, Architecture was once a field of competition included in this world-wide collection of games?
What are the Olympics?
200
Doors serving a Group H occupancy and doors serving rooms or spaces with an occupant load of 50 or more in a group A or E occupancy require this type of hardware.
What is panic hardware (or fire exit hardware)?
200
A mirror mounted above an accessible lavatory shall be mounted with the bottom edge no greater than this dimension about the floor.
What is 40 inches?
200
Car washes, laboratories for testing and research, and post offices are part of this occupancy group.
What is Business Group B Occupancy?
200
Lego just revealed its largest building set ever released (more than 12,000 pieces) to commemorate the centennial year of this famous Spanish landmark.
What is Sagrada Familia?
300
This fraction is used to calculate the minimum distance of two exits apart based on the length of the maximum overall diagonal dimension of the building or area served by these exits in buildings equipped with an automatic sprinkler system.
What is one-third?
300
Within the maneuvering clearance of an interior swinging door or gate, these dimensions are the minimum dimensions (a) perpendicular to the doorway and (b) parallel to the doorway. 
What are (a) 60 inches and (b) 18 inches?
300
A building meets the requirements of this type of construction if the primary structural frame has a 2-hour fire resistance rating, the roof has a 1-hour fire resistance rating, and all building elements are made of non-combustible materials (with exceptions, e.g. fire-treated wood).
What is Type IB Construction?
300
The name of the main character and narrator of the show How I Met Your Mother, who is an Architect living in New York City.
Who is Ted Mosby? (Theodore Evelyn Mosby for extra credit)
400
The face of an exit sign illuminated from an external source shall have an intensity of not less than this required level of light intensity.
What are 5 footcandles?
400
This type of grab bar provided for an accessible water closet shall be mounted horizontally, be 36 min. inches in length, be located 6 inches max. from the perpendicular wall, and extend 42 inches min. from the perpendicular wall.
What is a rear-wall grab bar?
400
This type of wall shall be designed and constructed to provide a complete separation and allow collapse of the structure on either side without collapse of the wall under fire conditions, and shall have a fire resistance rating of between 2 hours in lower hazard occupancies and 4 hours in higher hazard occupancies.
What is a fire wall?
400
The name of a masonry structure typically consisting of an inclined bar carried on a half arch that extends from the upper part of a wall to a pier some distance away and carries the thrust of a roof or vault.
What is a flying buttress?
500
Spaces with one of these 3 occupancy classifications, and equipped with automatic sprinkler systems, are allowed to contain only one exit, as long as the maximum common path of egress travel distance does not exceed 75 feet.
What are Assembly, Educational, and Mercantile occupancies?
500
While the clear width of an interior accessible route shall be 36 inches min., in new construction it may be reduced to 32 inches min. for a length of (a) maximum provided the reduced-width segments are separated by segments that are (b) distance apart in length and 36 inches min. in width.
What is 48 inches?
500
This is the fire-resistance rating of a shaft enclosure where connecting four stories or more, where the building’s floor assembly has a fire resistive rating of 2 hours?
What is a 2 hour fire-resistance rating?
500
This popular video game that debuted in 2000 was originally designed as an Architecture Simulator, where players would design a house and autonomous characters would test the design’s success.
What is The Sims?
