IBC Chapter 3 - Occupancy Groups
Group _____ includes, among others, the use of a building or structure for sleeping purposes when not classified as an Institutional Group
R
Residential group ______ occupancies containing sleeping units where the occupants are primarily transient in nature, including: boarding houses (transient) with more than 10 occupants, congregate living facilities (transient) with more than 10 occupants, hotels (transient), motels (transient)
R-1
What occupancy group is a boarding house with more than 10 occupants?
R-1
What occupancy type is a hotel?
R-1
Residential group _____ occupancies containing sleeping units or more than two dwelling units where the occupants are primarily permanent in nature, including: apartment houses, boarding houses (nontransient) with more than 16 occupants, congregate living facilities (nontransient) with more than 16 occupants, convents, dorms, frats and sororities, hotels (nontransient), live/work units, monasteries, motels (nontransient), vacation timeshare properties
R-2
What occupancy type is a dorm?
R-2
What occupancy type is a live/work unit?
R-2
What occupancy type is a monastery?
R-2
What occupancy type is an apartment?
R-2
A facility having 5 or fewer children receiving day care within a dwelling unit shall be classified as a _____ occupancy
R-3
A facility with 5 or fewer persons receiving custodial care shall be classified as group _____
R-3
Residential group _____ occupancies where the occupants are primarily permanent in nature and not classified as any of the other R occupancies: buildings that do not contain more than two dwelling units, care facilities that provide accommodations for 5 or fewer persons receiving care; catch-all
R-3
What occupancy type is a single family residence?
R-3
A facility housing not fewer than 6 and not more than 16 persons receiving custodial care shall be classified as group _____
R-4
Residency group ____ shall include buildings, structures or portions thereof for more than 5 but not more than 16 persons, excluding staff, who reside on a 24-hour basis in a supervised residential environment and receive custodial care: alcohol and drug centers, assisted living facilities, congregate care facilities, group homes, halfway houses, social rehab facilities
R-4
Group ____ occupancy includes, among others, the use of a building or structure for storage that is not classified as a hazardous occupancy
S
Storage Group _____ occupancies are buildings occupied for storage uses including, but not limited to: aerosols (levels 2 and 3), aircraft hangar (storage and repair), bags, bamboos and rattan, baskets, belting, books and paper in rolls or packs, boots and shoes, buttons, cardboard and boxes, clothing, dry boat storage, furniture, furs, glues, grains, leather, minoleum, lumber, some motor vehicle repair garages, photo engravings, resilient flooring, silks, soaps, sugar, tires, tabacco, cigars, cigarettes and snuff, upholstery and mattresses, wax candles
S-1
Storage group ____ occupancies include, among others, buildings used for the storage of noncombustible materials such as products on wood pallets or in paper cartons with or without single thickness divisions; or in paper wrappings. Such products are permitted to have a negligible amount of plastic trim, such as knobs, handles or film wrapping. Including, but not limited to storage of: asbestos, everages up to and including 16% alcohol in metal, glass or ceramic containers, cement in bags, chalk and crayons, dairy products in nonwaxed coated paper containers, dry cell batteries, electrical coils, electrical motors, empty cans, food products, foods in noncombustible containers, fresh fruits and veggies in nonplastic trays or containers, frozen foods, glass, gypsum board, intert pigments, ivory, meats, metal cabinets, metal desks with plastic tops and trim, metal parts, metals, mirrors, oil-filled and other types of distribution transformers, parking garages, porcelain and pottery, stoves soapstones, washers and dryers
S-2
Group ____ buildings and structures of an accessory character and miscellaneous structures not classified in any specific occupancy shall be constructed, equipped and maintained to conform to the requirements of this code, include, but are not limited to: agricultural buildings, aircraft hangars (accessory to a one or two family residence), barns, carports, fences more than 6 ft in height, grain silos (accessory to a residential occupancy), greenhouses, livestock shelters, private garages, retaining walls, sheds, stables, tanks and towers
U
What occupancy type is a greenhouse?
U
A facility having 5 or fewer children receiving day care shall be classified as ____________
part of the primary occupancy
Rooms and spaces within places of religious worship providing day care during religious functions shall be classified as _________
part of the primary occupancy
What type of occupancy is a room within a place of worship providing day care during religious functions
part of the primary occupancy
A room or space used for storage purposes that is less than _____ SF in area a accessory to another occupancy shall be classified as part of that occupancy.
100
Accessory religious educational rooms and religious auditoriums with occupant loads of less than ______ per room or space are not considered separate occupancies.
100
Group ____ occupancy includes assembly uses, usually with fixed seating, intended for the production and viewing of the performing arts or motion pictures including, but not limited to: Motion picture theaters, Symphony and concert halls, T.V. and radio studios admitting an audience, theaters
A-1
What occupancy type is a T.V. or radio studio admitting an audience?
A-1
What occupancy type is a concert hall?
A-1
What occupancy type is a motion picture theater?
A-1
What occupancy type is a theater?
A-1
Group ______ occupancy includes assembly uses intended for food and/or drink consumption including, but not limited to: Banquet halls, casinos (gaming areas), nightclubs, restaurants, cafeterias and similar dining facilities (including associated commercial kitchens), Taverns and bars
A-2
What occupancy type is a banquet hall?
A-2
What occupancy type is a bar?
A-2
What occupancy type is a cafeteria?
A-2
What occupancy type is a casino gaming area?
A-2
What occupancy type is a nightclub?
A-2
What occupancy type is a restaurant?
A-2
Group ____ occupancy includes assembly uses intended for worship, recreation or amusement and other assembly uses not classified elsewhere in Group ____ including, but not limited to: Amusement arcades, art galleries, bowling alleys, community halls, courtrooms, dance halls (not including food or drink consumption), exhibition halls, funeral parlors, gymnasiums (without spectator seating), indoor swimming pools (without spectator seating), indoor tennis courts (without spectator seating), lecture halls, libraries, museums, places of religious worship, pool and billiard parlors, waiting areas in transportation terminals
A-3
Religious educational rooms and religious auditoriums, which are necessary to places of religious worhship and have occupant loads of less than 100 per room or space, shall be classified as Group _____ occupancies
A-3
What type of occupancy is a bowling alley?
A-3
What type of occupancy is a courtroom?
A-3
What type of occupancy is a lecture hall?
A-3
What type of occupancy is a museum?
A-3
What type of occupancy is a place of religious worship?
A-3
What type of occupancy is a waiting area for a transportation terminal?
A-3
Group ____ occupancy includes assembly uses intended for participation in or viewing outdoor activities including, but not limited to: Amusement park structures, bleachers, grandstands, stadiums
A-4
What type of occupancy are bleachers?
A-4
What type of occupancy is a stadium?
A-4
What type of occupancy is an amusement park ride?
A-4
A building or tenant space used for assembly purposes with an occupant load of less than 50 persons shall be classified as a Group ______ occupancy
B
A room or space used for assembly purposes that is less than 750 SF in area and accessory to another occupancy shall be classified as Group _____ occupancy or as part of that occupancy
B
Group ____ occupancy includes, among others, the use of a building or structure for office, professional or service-type transactions, including storage of records and accounts. _____ occupancies shall include, but not be limited to, the following: airport traffic control towers, ambulatory care facilties, animal hospitals, kennels and pounds, banks, barber and beauty shops, car wash, civic administration, outpatient clinic, dry cleaning and laundries, educational occupancies for students above the 12th grade, electronic data processing, food processing establishments and commercial kitchens not associated with restaurants, cafeterias and similar dining facilities not more than 2500 SF in area, labs for testing and research, motor vehicle showrooms, post offices, print shops, professional services (architects, attorneys, dentists, physicians, engineers etc), radio and T.V. stations, telephone exchanges, training and skill development not in a school.
B
What occupancy type is a bank?
B
What occupancy type is a barber shop?
B
What occupancy type is a car wash?
B
What occupancy type is a dry cleaning/laundry?
B
What occupancy type is a laboratory?
B
What occupancy type is a motor vehicle showroom?
B
What occupancy type is a post office?
B
What occupancy type is an ambulatory care facility?
B
What occupancy type is an educational building for students above the 12th grade?
B
What occupancy type is an outpatient clinic?
B
A room or space used for assembly purposes that is associated with a Group ______ occupancy is not considered a separate occupancy
E
Group _____ includes buildings and structures or portions thereof occupied by more than five children older than 2 1/2 years of age who receive educational supervision or personal care services for fewer than 24 hours per day.
E
Group _____ occupancy includes, among others, the use of a building or structure by six or more persons at any one time for education purposes through the 12th grade
E
What type of occupancy is a child day care facility for more than 5 but not more than 100 children 2 1/2 years or less of age?
E
Group _____ occupancy includes, among others, the use of a building or structure for assembling, disassembling, fabricating, finishing, manufacturing, packaging, repair or processing operations that are not classified as a Group H hazardous or Group S storage occupancy
F
Occupancy group _____ is moderate-hazard factory industrial and shall include, but not be limited to: aircraft (manufacturing, not repair), appliances, athletic equipment, automobiles and other motor vehicles, bakeries, beverages (over 16% alcohol content), bicycles, boats, brooms or brushes, business machines, cameras and photo equipment, canvas or similar fabric, carpets and rugs (includes cleaning), clothing, construction and agricultural machinery, disinfectants, dry cleaning and dyeing, electric generation plants, electronics, engines (including rebuilding), food processing establishments and commercial kitchens not associated with restaurants, cafeterias and similar dining facilities more than 2500 SF, furniture, hemp products, jute products, laundries, leather products, machinery, metals, millwork, motion pictures and T.V. filming, musical instruments, optical goods, paper mills or products, photographic film, plastic products, printing or publishing, recreational vehicles, refuse incineration, shoes soaps and detergents, textiles, tobacco, trailers, upholstering, wood, woodworking
F-1
What occupancy group is a disinfectant manufacturing facility?
F-1
What occupancy group is a engine manufacturing facility?
F-1
What occupancy group is an automobile manufacturing facility?
F-1
What occupancy group is an electronics manufacturing facility?
F-1
Group ____ is for low hazard factory industrial uses that involve the fabrication or manufacturing of noncombustible materials that during finishing, packing or processing do not involve a significant fire hazard: beverages up to and including 16% alcohol content, brick and masonry, ceramic products, foundries, glass products, gypsum, ice and metal products (fabrication and assembly)
F-2
What occupancy is a brick and masonry manufacturing facility?
F-2
What occupancy is a metal product manufacturing facility?
F-2
What occupancy type is a gypsum manufacturing facility?
F-2
Group _______ occupancy includes, among others, the use of a building or structure that involves the manufacturing, processing, generation or storage of materials that constitute a physical or health hazard in quantities in excess of those allowed in control areas complying with Section 414.
H
What occupancy is an explosives manufacturing facility?
H-1
Group _____ includes buildings and structures containing materials that pose a deflagration hazard or a hazard from accelerated burning: Class I, II or IIIA flammable or combustible liquids that are used or stored in normally open containers or systems, or in closed containers or systems pressurized at more than 15lbs/square inch, combustible dusts, cryogenic fluids, flammable gasses, organic peroxides, oxidizers (class 3), pyrophoric liquids, solids and gases, unstable materials (class 3), water-reactive materials (class 3)
H-2
Group _____ includes buildings and structures containing materials that readily support combustion or that pose a physical hazard: combustible fibers, consumer fireworks, flammable solids, oxidizing gases
H-3
What occupancy group is a fireworks manufacturing facility?
H-3
Group ____ includes buildings and structures containing materials that are health hazards: corrosives, highly toxic materials, toxic materials
H-4
Group _____ includes semiconductor fabrication facilities and comparable research and development areas in which hazardous production materials are used and the aggregate quantity of materials is in excess of those listed in Table 307.1
H-5
Group ______ occupancy includes the use of a building or structure in which care or supervision is provided to persons who are or are not capable of self-preservation without physical assistance or in which persons are detained for penal or correctional purposes or in which the liberty of the occupants is restricted
I
Group ______ occupancy shall include buildings, structures or portions thereof for more than 16 persons, excluding staff, who reside on a 24-hr basis in a supervised environment and receive custodial care: Alcohol and drug centers, assisted living facilities, congregate care facilities, group homes, halfway houses, residential board and care facilities and social rehab facilities.
I-1
What type of occupancy is an alcohol and drug center?
I-1
What type of occupancy is an assisted living facility?
I-1
Group ______ occupancy shall include buildings and structures used for medical care on a 24-hr basis for more than 5 persons who are incapable of self-preservation. This group shall include, but not be limited to: foster care facilities, detoxification facilities, hospitals, nursing homes, psychiatric hospitals
I-2
What type of occupancy is a hospital?
I-2
What type of occupancy is a nursing home?
I-2
Group _____ shall include buildings and structures that are inhabited by more than 5 persons who are under restraint or security and generally incapable of self-preservation due to security measures not under the occupants' control: correctional centers, detention centers, jails, prisons, reformatories
I-3
What type of occupancy is a detention center?
I-3
What type of occupancy is a jail?
I-3
Group _____ shall include buildings and structures occupied by more than 5 persons of any age who receive custodial care for fewer than 24 hours per day by persons other than parents or guardians, marriage or adoption, and in a place other than the home of the person cared for: adult day care, child day care
I-4
What type of occupancy is a child day care center for 6 or more people?
I-4
What type of occupancy is an adult day care center for 6 or more people?
I-4
Group _____ includes, among others, the use of a building or structure for the display and sale of merchandise, and involves stocks of goods, wares or merchandise incidental to such purposes and accessible to the public: department stores, drug stores, markets, motor fuel-dispensing facilities, retail or wholesale stores, sales rooms
M
What occupancy type is a wholesale store?
M
What type of occupancy is a department store?
M
What type of occupancy is a motor fuel-dispensing facility
M
