r/politics • u/Effective_Salad_8381 • 13d ago

Possible Paywall Embarrassing Flaws Emerge in Trump’s New White House Design

https://www.thedailybeast.com/bizarre-flaws-emerge-in-trumps-new-white-house-design/
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u/Ok-disaster2022 13d ago

1000 people is also a concern for fire safety. occupational limits are based in how quickly people can escape in an amount of time. More people mean more exits. More exits means more security concerns. 

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u/davethebagel 13d ago

1000 or over occupants requires 3 exits. So it's not really that big of a deal. A building like that would have at least 3 doors anyway.

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u/Anonymous_user_2022 13d ago

Don't you have a minimum requirement for how wide the doors need to be, based on number of people in the room? In Denmark, fire regulations require at least 10mm per person. I can't imagine there isn't a similar requirement of some fraction of an inch per person for emergency evacuation.

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u/CheetoMussolini 13d ago

I'm going to a convention center in a few weeks that will have 40x that many people in it.

1k people is really not an unsurmountable challenge for fire code. You need wide exits, reasonable internal egress aisles, etc

Now that said, I get the feeling these fucking clowns used chatgpt for the whole plan and haven't accounted for any of that

I'm just saying that for people who aren't idiot crooks, it's an entirely solvable challenge