We are planning a commercial building with 2 floors of garage spaces under the building. These floors will be accessible via entryway for automobiles and two cores with elevators and staircases for building users. Elevators and staircases go directly to every floor above ground into open space offices. Of course, the building has it's main entrance in the ground floor.
My question is: Do we have to design permamanent entrway systems in front of the elevator entrances in every floor of the garage?
The problem is, that if we put a 10ft mat in front of the elevator door, it crosses traffic lanes. Does anybody have a similar experience?
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Allison Beer McKenzie
Architect, Director of SustainabilitySHP Leading Design
LEEDuser Expert
646 thumbs up
January 24, 2011 - 8:27 am
Petr- you will need 10ft of entryway system in front of the elevators. Perhaps there is some sort of heavy grate system that be used where it crosses the traffic lanes.
Thorn Grafton
18 thumbs up
February 1, 2011 - 7:42 pm
Petr - if you can't manipulate the primary direction of travel to be out of the vehicle lane, perhaps try an alternate compliance path where 5' or 6' is outside, and an open grid mat on the floor of the elevator serves as the balance. Elevator floors always need frequent cleaning anyway. Has anyone else tried something like this?