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I worked at a company that built a high security data center with a man trap at the entrance. Meaning, you step into a small room resembling an airlock. Once in
by bityard 4y ago
I worked at a company that built a high security data center with a man trap at the entrance. Meaning, you step into a small room resembling an airlock. Once inside, you cannot open either door without a badge or calling someone on the video screen.
After completion of the building, they had to disable it because it turns out this kind of thing is extremely against the national fire code.
- detaro 4y agoWeird that someone got as far as finish building one without checking how they are built properly. (i.e. usually they'd be built so that you can escape into the lower-security zone in an emergency)
- bityard 4y agoNot weird at all. People very often undertake projects, or are delegated projects with little experience in them all the time. Or different people responsible for different parts of the project don't communicate well with each other and things get overlooked. Happens in small projects like this, definitely happens in huge multi-billion-dollar projects too. I can imagine that amongst all the preliminary permits and intermediate inspections, the "man trap" was never labeled as such and inspectors simply saw it as two sets of doors, which is very common in building entrances. The person responsible for implementing the security system very possibly worked with a small-business contractor with no knowledge of fire codes and had no communication themselves with the person responsible for compliance with fire code.