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716.2.6 Fire Door Hardware and Closures

Georgia State Minimum Standard Building Code > 7 Fire and Smoke Protection Features > 716 Opening Protectives > 716.2 Fire Door Assemblies > 716.2.6 Fire Door Hardware and Closures

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Fire door hardware and closures shall be installed on fire door assemblies in accordance with the requirements of this section.

716.2.6.1 Door Closing

Fire doors shall be latching and self- or automatic-closing in accordance with this section.

Exceptions:

Fire doors located in common walls separating sleeping units in Group R-1 shall be permitted without automatic- or self-closing devices.
The elevator car doors and the associated hoistway enclosure doors at the floor level designated for recall in accordance with Section 3003.2 shall be permitted to remain open during Phase I emergency recall operation.

Unless otherwise specifically permitted, single side-hinged swinging fire doors and both leaves of pairs of side-hinged swinging fire doors shall be provided with an active latch bolt that will secure the door when it is closed.

716.2.6.3 Chute Intake Door Latching

Chute intake doors shall be positive latching, remaining latched and closed in the event of latch spring failure during a fire emergency.

716.2.6.4 Automatic-Closing Fire Door Assemblies

Automatic-closing fire door assemblies shall be self-closing in accordance with NFPA 80.

716.2.6.5 Delayed-Action Closers

Doors required to be self-closing and not required to be automatic closing shall be permitted to be equipped with delayed-action closers.

716.2.6.6 Smoke-Activated Doors

Automatic-closing doors installed in the following locations shall be permitted to have hold-open devices. Doors shall automatically close by the actuation of smoke detectors installed in accordance with Section 907.3 or by loss of power to the smoke detector or hold-open device. Doors that are automatic-closing by smoke detection shall not have more than a 10-second delay before the door starts to close after the smoke detector is actuated. Automatic-closing doors that protect openings installed in the following locations shall comply with this section:

In walls that separate incidental uses in accordance with Section 509.4.
In fire walls in accordance with Section 706.8.
In fire barriers in accordance with Section 707.6.
In fire partitions in accordance with Section 708.6.
In smoke barriers in accordance with Section 709.5.
In smoke partitions in accordance with Section 710.5.2.3.
In shaft enclosures in accordance with Section 713.7.
In waste and linen chutes, discharge openings and access and discharge rooms in accordance with Section 713.13. Loading doors installed in waste and linen chutes shall meet the requirements of Sections 716.2.6.1 and 716.2.6.3.

716.2.6.7 Doors in Pedestrian Ways

Vertical sliding or vertical rolling steel fire doors in openings through which pedestrians travel shall be heat activated or activated by smoke detectors with alarm verification.