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HomeMy WebLinkAbout155682_4_Corrections.docxTENANT IMPROVEMENT PLAN CHECK COMMENTS COMMENTS Planning & Building Agency Building Safety Division 20 Civic Center Plaza P.O. Box 1988 (M-19) Santa Ana, CA 92702 (714) 647-5800 www.santa-ana.org PLAN CHECK NO: PROJECT ADDRESS: PLAN CHECK ENGINEER:TEL:714FAX:714 647-5897 TYPE OF CONSTRUCTION: OCCUPANCY CLASSIFICATION(S): PLAN CHECK DATES: REMARKS/RECHECK ITEMS: APPLICATION INITIAL REVIEW EXPIRATION RECHECKS: 1. PROJECT APPLICANT CONTACT PERSON: 2. 3. TEL: FAX: VALUATION: EMAIL: FLOOD ZONE: APPLICABLE CODE: 2007 CALIFORNIA BUILDING CODE (CBC) WITH CITY OF SANTA ANA AMENDMENTS All items noted on this plan check report must be addressed. If you feel that an item is not applicable to your project, note “N/A” and discuss the reason with the plan checker.Please indicate the sheet number and detail to the right of each correction, or note the number on the plans where the correction is made. Resubmit marked original, calculations and this correction sheet. A separate sheet for response may be used.Resubmit corrected sets of plans.Meetings between the project applicant/designer and the plan reviewer shall be by appointment only. Please call (714) for an appointment.This review does not include mechanical, plumbing, fire sprinkler system, or electrical work. Separate plans, applications, fees, plan checks, and permits are required for mechanical, plumbing, fire sprinkler systems, and electrical work. Call 647-5800 for information.The applicant shall obtain clearances/approvals for the following prior to building permit issuance: - Planning Division approval on the corrected/final set of drawings (647-5804.) Previously approved plans should be submitted to expedite the process. - Fire Department approval on the corrected/final sets of drawings (647-5839 or 647-5700) - Police Department approval on the corrected/final set of drawings (647-5840) - Public Works Agency approval (647-5039) - County of Orange Health Department approval on the corrected/final set of drawings (667- 3600) (Proposed Catering room , Clarify use with a note on the drawings) - Proof of Worker’s Compensation Insurance shall be required at the time of permit issuance - Information Technology equipment rooms require a completed electrical plan check prior to issuance of the building permit to ensure compliance with the 2007 California Electrical Code (CEC) Article 645, Electronic Computer/Data Processing Equipment. CEC Article 645 may require fire-rated walls, floors, and ceilings for the computer room(s). For additional information, contact Mr. Scott Davis, Electrical Plan Check at (714) 647- 5822.City records note the type of building construction as II-A+SPK. Please note type of construction on drawing II-A+SPK based on the 2007 California Building Code Chapters 5 and 6.Submit a letter addressed to the Building Safety Division describing the use of training rooms in detail and age of occupants attending classes. If there has been a change in use or occupancy classifications, drawings shall show compliance with the CBC requirements for the new classifications. Section 3406 CBC. Please note additional plan check comments applies if E or I occupancy is proposed.Please complete attached Disabled Access Compliance Documentation Form and return to Building Department. Label and note hourly fire rating of: -Existing 1HR fire rated corridors and 20 minute existing doors. Please add a note on the floor plan or door schedule. - Existing and new stair enclosures, 2 HR fire rated enclosure with 90 minute door. Please check door schedule for correct fire rating. Please note Type II-A construction requires 1 HR fire rated assembly throughout the building and new walls and ceiling construction details to show compliance. Provide complete soffit details, including number, type, location of fasteners and how attachment is made to the building structure. Show compliance with CBC Section 803. Structural calculation for design and justification may be required.Provide on the drawings interior wall and ceiling finish schedule showing compliance with CBC Section 803 and CBC Table 803.5.CBC Section 707.14.1, Elevator Lobby. An enclosed elevator lobby shall be provided at each floor where an elevator shaft enclosure connects more than two stories in high-rise buildings, Group A, E, H, I, L, R-1 and R-2 occupancies and other applications listed in Section III regulated by the Office of theState Fire Marshal, and three stories for all other occupancies. The lobby shall separate the elevator shaftenclosure doors from each floor by fire partitions equal to the fire-resistance rating of the corridor and the required opening protection. Elevator lobbies shall have at least one means of egress complying with Chapter 10 and other provisions within this code. Except, enclosed elevator lobbies are not required at the street floor, provided the entire street floor is equipped with an automatic sprinkler system in accordance with Section with Section 903.3.1.1.The lobby shall completely separate the elevators from the corridor by construction conforming to Section 1017.1 and all openings into the lobby wall contiguous with the corridor shall be protected as required by CBC Section 715.4.3, when elevators connecting more than two stories and opening into a corridor shall be provided with an elevator lobby at each floor containing such a corridor.Except In office buildings, separations need not be provided from a street floor elevator lobby, provided the entire street floor is protected with an automatic sprinkler system.CBC Section 1004.3, Posting of occupant load. Every room or space that is assembly occupancy shall have the occupant load of the room or space posted in a conspicuous place, near the main exit or exit access doorway from the room or space. Posted signs shall be of an approved legible permanent design and shall be maintained by the owner or authorized agent.Note the total occupant load based on CBC Section 1004 and Table 1004.1.1 for each floor on the drawings.Buildings equipped throughout with an automatic sprinkler system in accordance with Section 903.3.1.1 with an occupancy in Group B, shall have a maximum travel distance of 100’. Provide dimensions path of travel on drawings to show compliance. Provide a complete architectural section of new 2-HR. exit enclosure area detailing fire resistive rated construction of the walls and ceilings. Detail all duct and other penetrations CBC Sections 708.4, 1017.1, 715.1, Table 715.4 & 716.5.4. Plans shall indicate how required structural and fire resistive integrity will be maintained where a penetration will be made for electrical, mechanical, plumbing and communication conduits, pipes and similar systems. CBC Section 106.1.1 and CBC Chapter 7. Note on the plans the ICC Research Report number, U.L. number, State Fire Marshal number, or approval number of another agency accepted by the City of Santa Ana.Note on the drawings CBC Section 715 requirements for a pair of doors installed in a two-hourexit enclosure wall. - A labeled assembly having a fire-protection rating of not less than 90 minutes. - Self-closer or automatic-closer actuated by a smoke detector. - Automatic flush bolts, the door leaf having the automatic flush bolts shall have no doorknob or surface- mounted hardware. The unlatching of any leaf shall not require more than one operation. - Full mortise hinges – three minimum. - Tight-fitting clearances and provided with a gasket so installed as to provide a seal where the door meets the stop on both sides and across the top. Clearances for a pair of swinging doors shall be as follows: With a minus 1/16” tolerance – 1/8” along the top, 1/8” along the hinge and latch jambs, 1/8”along the meeting edge of the doors, and ¼” at the bottom of the doors. - An overlapping astragal extending the full height of the doors is required along the meeting edges of the doors. A coordinating device is also required to insure proper closing.”Proposed 2HR rated corridor area is required to be 2HR stairway enclosure area with 2Hr fire rated walls and ceiling. A minimum of 90 minute doors are required. Provide construction detail for assemblies for walls and ceilings. Reference each fire-resistive assembly to a CBC Chapter 7, Table and Item number: Revise ICBO as indicated on the drawings to ICC on all construction details and indicate approval number.CBC Section 1024.5.1. Doors, when fully opened and handrails shall not reduce the required width by more than 7”. Doors in any position shall not reduce the required width by more than one-half. Please see 1st floor existing corridor 105.Provide on the drawings a complete door schedule, showing: - Door sizes (CBC Sections 1008.1.1 and 1133B.2) - Hardware complying with exiting and disabled accessibility requirements (CBC Sections 1008.1.8 and 1133B.2.5) - Compliance with limitation of viewport size (CBC Section 715.4.3 Exception 1) - Fire-rating of door assembly complying with CBC Section 715 Opening Protection - Note smoke seal (in accordance with CBC Section 715.4.3, required for doors forming part of the one-hour exit corridor envelope) - Show compliance with the City of Santa Ana’s Security Ordinance (Contact the Santa Ana Police Department Crime Prevention Section by telephoning 714-647-5840)Panic hardware shall comply with CBC Section 1008.1.9. Panic hardware shall be provided as required by CBC Section(s): - An Occupancy with an occupant count > 50. Refer to CBC section 1008.1.8.3. Doors shall swing in the direction of egress. Show room, corridor and stairway enclose doors that are equipped with panic hardware. Existing door s to be modified to be equipped with panic hardware. - By the Fire Department The width of the level area on the side to which the door swings shall extend 24” past the strike edge of the door for exterior doors and 18” past the edge for interior doors. CBC Section 1126A.3.2.Provide specifications for doors hardware (i.e., lever type, push-pull panic, etc) to comply with disabled access requirements. CBC Section 1133B.2.5.2.Show wheel chair accessible floor area for copy room 106A.CBC Section 1133B.2.5.1, Hand-activated door opening hardware shall be centered between 30” and 44” above the floor. Latching and locking doors that are hand activated and which are in a path of travel shall be operable with a single effort by lever-type hardware, by panic bars, push-pull activating bars, or other hardware designed to provide passage without requiring the ability to grasp the opening hardware. Locked exit doors shall operate as above in egress direction.CBC Section 1133B.2.5, Note on the drawings: “Maximum effort to operate doors shall not exceed 5 pounds for exterior doors and interior doors, such pull or push effort being applied at right angles to hinged doors and at the center place of sliding or folding doors. Compensating devices or automatic door operators may be utilized to meet the above standards. When fire doors are required, the maximum effort to operate the door may be increased to the minimum allowable by the appropriate administrative authority, not to exceed 15 pounds.Exit illumination and exit sign requirements in accordance with CBC Section 1011 shall be shown on the drawings. Be specific as to the type of exit signs to be installed.CBC Sections 1011.6 and 1011.7. Show compliance on the drawings for floor-level exit sign in all interior corridors of Group A occupancies, and in all interior rated exit corridors. CBC Section 1011.1. Provide a directional exit sign at changes in exiting direction as marked on the drawings.CBC Section 1011, Requires exit signs to be readily visible from any direction of approach. No point shall be more than 100’ from the nearest visible exit sign. Revise the drawings to show compliance.CBC Section 1006, Requires means of egress from all occupied parts of the building be provided with at least 1’ candle of light at floor level. Show compliance on the drawings.If emergency warning systems are required, they shall activate a means of warning the hearing impaired. Emergency warning systems, as part of the fire-protective signaling system, shall be designed and installed in accordance with NFPA 72 as amended in CBC Chapter 35. CBC Section 1007.9, check with the Fire Department when, how, and where applicable.Plumbing facilities shall be provided in accordance with the California Plumbing Code (CPC) Section 412.0 and CPC Table 4-1. Show justification for additional occupant load on the 1st floor.Provide on the drawings a complete window schedule showing: - Window sizes - Type and thickness of glazing (type of safety glazing for hazardous locations noted under CBC Section 2406.3Note type of safety glazing complying with CBC Section 2406 for glazing in fixed or operable panels adjacent to a door where the nearest exposed edge of the glazing is within a 24” arc of either vertical edge of the door in a closed position and where the bottom exposed edge of the glazing is less than 60” above the walking surface.Glass shall be firmly supported on all four edges. Show on the drawings how compliance shall be made with CBC Section 2404. For glass not firmly supported on all four edges, design shall be submitted to the building official for approval.Show/note ventilation requirements on the plans in accordance with the CBC and California Mechanical Code (CMC) requirements for each type of use. Note on drawings: - Provide mechanical ventilation for each area/room in accordance with the 2007 California Mechanical Code.Show/note LIGHTING requirements on the plans in accordance with CBC and California Electrical Code requirements for each type of use. Note on drawings: - CBC Section 1205.3, Artificial light. Artificial light shall be provided that is adequate to provide an average illumination of 10’candles (107 lux) over the area of the room at a height of 30”above the floor level.Provide a complete suspended ceiling system plan and section detail showing the following: - Vertical supports - Seismic wires - Seismic strut/Compression strut - Perimeter wires - Separate fixture wires for lights and mechanical devices - ICC Research Report number for the suspended ceilingThe reflected ceiling plan and details must show compliance with CBC Sections 711.3.1, 803, 1613, and 1705 (special inspection) for suspended ceiling systems. Provide complete structural calculations and drawings for suspended ceiling systems showing compliance with CBC Sections 711.3.1, 803.9, 1613, and 1705 (special inspections) and ASTM C635 and ASTM C636. OR Note ICC Research Report Number on the drawings for the suspended ceiling system. (ICC Report Number 1308)Clarify “AA” and “BB” shown on sheets 1A-1.3 and 1A-2.1. Provide construction details if needed.CBC Section 1603.3, Live loads posted. Where the live loads for which each floor or portion thereof of a commercial or industrial building is or has been designed to exceed 50 psf, such design live loads shall be conspicuously posted by the owner in that part of each story in which they apply, using durable signs. It shall be unlawful to remove or deface such notices.The uniformly distributed, concentrated and impact floor live load used in the design shall be indicated for floor areas. Use of live load reduction in accordance with Section 1607.9 shall be indicated for each type of live load used in the design.1603.1.1 Floor live load. Note on the drawings design live and dead loads. Also, note on the drawings other special design loads.Provide structural calculations and drawings, stamped and signed by a California licensed architect or registered civil engineer for: Change in floor use/loading. Refer to CBC Section 1607 and CBC Table 1607.1. This includes storage room 222 for 125 PSF. Please verify the key plan shown on sheet S-2.1 matches the location of storage room of architectural drawings. Provide structural calculations and drawings, stamped and signed by a California licensed architect or registered civil engineer for change in floor use/loading computer room. Refer to CBC Section 1607 and CBC Table 1607.1. Provide structural calculations and drawings, stamped and signed by a California licensed architect or registered civil engineer proposed skyfold suspended partition wall.