SEMINAR 10F106

Florida Building Code (Means of Egress)
Six contact hours (CEH’s, PDH’s)
AIA Course Number 10F106 (6 Learning Units) 

LEARNING OBJECTIVES: The Florida Building Code (FBC) contains requirements for
helping to ensure that the occupants of buildings will exit safely or will move to safer areas
within buildings in the event of a fire emergency.  These life safety requirements reflect the
design principles for the means of egress, but what is the basis for these exiting requirements?  Seminar 10F106 looks at some of the theory behind means of egress requirements within the
FBC in order to illustrate the logic behind egress design. The core document for the seminar will
be the 2007 Florida Building Code with 2009 revisions. This seminar is a natural complement to seminar 10F102. Course notes will be provided at the seminar. 

GOALS: Seminar 10F106 is designed to help ensure that participants:

   1.  Understand from discussion how building hazards, occupant characteristics and fire
   protection features relate to one another;

   2.  Understand from discussion and exercises how the exiting of buildings is influenced by the
   psychology and the physiology of the buildings’ occupants;

   3.  Recognize from discussion and data in the course handout material that it is difficult to
   quantify exactly how a building’s occupants will exit in the event of a fire; and

   4.  Recognize from discussion and handout materials that the Florida Building Code’s egress
   chapter is based on well conceived theories. 

PRESENTATION AND EVALUATION: Seminar 10F102 is an instructor led course, using a lecture, and power point slide presentation enhanced with on-screen drawing. The participants
are encouraged to ask questions and to contribute to discussion during the seminar. They are
given time at the end of the seminar for more questions. The participants’ progress is evaluated throughout the seminar by the comments made and the questions asked. The seminar is
evaluated through the use of forms distributed to the seminar participants after the seminar is complete. 

WHAT TO BRING? Each participant should bring a 2007 Florida Building Code (FBC) with 2009 Supplement, a calculator, a writing instrument, and an AIA number (if the participant is a member of the AIA). A 2006 International Building Code (IBC) can be used, though the course notes will refer to sections in the 2007 FBC. If you are trying to travel “light”, you will be able
to follow along with chapters 3 and 10 of the FBC.
 

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