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  • Lift-Cards

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    Each passenger lift-car shall be provided with permanently open ventilation-openings equivalent in area to at least 4 per centum of the area of the car-floor, and at least half of this area shall be either in, or not more than 150 millimeters below, the car-roof: Provided that, where air is extracted by mechanical ventilation from…

  • Parking-Garages

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    (1) In rooms with or without windows, used for the keeping or storage of motor vehicles which may be operated under their own power within such rooms, and which rooms are not used for service, repair or maintenance, the provisions of this section shall be observed. (2) Rooms with floors not lower than the average…

  • Requirements For Non-Habitable Rooms

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    (1) Non-habitable rooms used mainly as a means of access, such as corridors, stairways and the like, shall have a clear height of not less than 2,3 meters throughout, and all other non-habitable rooms shall have a clear height of not less than 2,1 meters over at least 80 per centum of the floor area.…

  • Requirements For Mechanical Ventilation System

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    (1) Where it is proposed to provide mechanical ventilation to any building or part thereof, details of the ventilation system concerned shall be set out in working-drawings, and shall be submitted to the local authority for its approval. (2) Details of working-drawings shall include the maximum quantity of outside air per minute which such mechanical…

  • Air-Supply To Required Ventilation-Openings

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    (1) Fresh air shall be admitted to required ventilation-openings contained in external walls directly from the open air, from a court or a street or public place, or else from a roofed porch, veranda or balcony (hereinafter referred to as a “covered area”), complying with subsection (2). (2) Covered areas supplying outside air to required…

  • Required Ventilation-Openings For Habitable Rooms

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    (1) Minimum area of openings. – Every habitable room shall have required ventilation-openings in the walls of an aggregate are of not less than 5 per centum of the floor area, but in no case less than 0,5 square meter: Provided that, in the case of habitable rooms having a floor area exceeding 50 square…

  • Provision Of Ventilation

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    Every habitable room shall be provided with natural ventilation, in accordance with the requirements of sections 5 and 6, unless it is provided with mechanical ventilation, in accordance with the requirements of section 7.

  • Contamination Of Air

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    Wherever conditions of high temperature may be created, or where steam, gases, vapor, dust or other impurities in the air may be produced, which may be injurious to health, all rooms or local areas within rooms affected by these conditions shall be provided with ventilation additional to that required by sections 2 and 6 to…

  • Dimensions Of Habitable Rooms

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    (1) Every habitable room shall have a clear height of not less than that set out in subsection (2), over the percentage of floor area of such room set out in subsection (3) and shall otherwise comply with the provisions of subsection (4). (2) The clear height referred to in subsection (1) shall be as…

  • Interpretation Of Terms

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    In this Chapter— “clear height of a room “means the vertical distance from floor to underside of ceiling, or, if there is no ceiling, to the underside of rafters, beams, tie-beams or joists; “court” means an unobstructed open space which abuts one or more of the external walls of a building, and which is located…