@coachlizschneider Could you please help clarifying whether to round up or down when calculating number of required items. Here are few examples: Water closets, say we need 1 per 10 people and we have 44 occupancy (22m/22f) would we have 6 (3m/3f) water closets in all? Zoning requires one tre…

@tatyana.swift Great question. The rule of thumb for these types of code requirements is to round up. You typically want to make sure that you are providing enough plumbing fixtures or egress width for the maximum number of people. If your occupancy is 44 people and you have to provide 1 water clo…

One quick follow up question in regards to the toilet count. Would this one additional toilet be male or female? Thank you!

@tatyana.swift Good follow up! For the toilet count you would start by dividing 44 by 2, per 2902.1.1 of the code. So you would have 22 women and 22 men. So using the same rule of 10 water closets per person you would have 3 for the women and 3 for the men. To break that down, that would be 2 for th…

Would rounding up be the case if this was for the maximum allowable occupancy for a space?

Hi @aowen , When calculating occupancy you want to round up, as you can’t have a partial occupant and need to err on the side of caution (which means accounting for more people needing to exit the space) when it comes to occupancy. You can read more about why you round up in this specific situatio…

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tatyana.swift September 23, 2020, 10:01pm 3

Great, thank you!

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