Lesson Overview

Lesson 1.1.2 will introduce you to how the International Building Code (IBC) categorizes building use as a series of Occupancy Groups.  In some ways this is how the code addresses what architects typically describe as program.  But the code is specifically concerned with a building’s uses and thus the relevant Occupancy Groups in terms of life safety. 

Lesson Goals

We will learn how these concepts of building use, Occupancy Groups and life safety play a direct role in how the code guides the size and height of a building, the structural and construction materials used as well as circulation and egress (exiting) requirements.