Posted By GARRY WIZZ
We have a 2 storey office accomadation attached to the warehouse. We are refurbishing the office, complete to new walls the lot.

can yiou advise on minimum door width, office,
fire routes, toilets.

If you would be so kind, I had a look atBR200 effective april 2007 and a tad concerned I may have it wrong.

Garry

Posted By alan brotherton
Has a competent architect or similar not been involved with the refurb project? If so I would have thought they would have ensured all access matters were as per current building regs requirements etc.in their design /specification.

Posted By Bob Shillabeer
As a starting point the guidance published by HM Gov following the implentation of the RRFSO states that the widths of escape routes which often include doors shoulkd be approriate to the number of people who may need to use them. Basically the recommended widths are a width of 750mm can accomobate 80 people in high risk premises, with 100 in medium risk and 120 in low risk premises. Where there is a width of 1050mm this can be doubled to 160, 100 and 240 but can be widened by 75 mm per 15 additional people. It goes on to say 'The minimum width of an escape route should ideally be 1050mm but in any case not less the 750mm (unless it is used by less than 5 people in part of your premises) and where wheelchair users are likely to use it, not less than 900mm wide.

Suggest you look at the guidance for the RRFSO and the current building regulations to find out more.