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The issue is emergency egress. You need those shafts to be able to support external staircases with many dozens of people rushing down simultaneously in the eve
by bloppe 3y ago
The issue is emergency egress. You need those shafts to be able to support external staircases with many dozens of people rushing down simultaneously in the event of a fire.
- aperson_hello 3y agoDo you? Most newer buildings go without external staircases (typically have two+ internals firewalled apart from each other)
- acchow 3y agoI believe there are two different requirements for residential: 1 is egress (fire regulations), and the other is natural light requirements for each room.
- aperson_hello 3y agoYou're not going to egress out of a 60th floor window...
- acchow 3y agoNo, the natural light requirement is not a fire regulation. It's not about egress.
- JumpCrisscross 3y ago> Do you? No, the window requirement is another housing suppression tactic. In New York, it is common for apartments to be illegally subdivided. It's how a lot of people live because it's affordable. I've done it. It's fine. Stairwells are necessary. But nobody on the 60th story of a high rise is egressing externally, FDNY's ladders don't even go that high. If you're only home at night, the window is a luxury. As evidenced by, when people are given a choice between more cash and a window, many choosing the cash.