Elevator Machine Room Door Requirements

On our projects we rarely have elevator machine rooms with double doors.

Elevator machine room door requirements.

Access doors shall be provided for all elevator machine rooms or enclosures and shall conform to the following. For facilities not located in a flood zone locate hydraulic elevator machine rooms on the lowest landing served by the elevator. Access doors for control spaces outside the hoistway shall conform to width and height requirements of section 2 7 3 4 2. Location of machine rooms and control rooms.

The american society of mechanical engineers publishes the construction standards for elevator equipment rooms. Location of machinery spaces machine rooms control spaces control rooms and equipment 2 7 6 1. The elevator machine and controller must be located in the elevator machine room. When doors need to be rated a 1 hour door is sufficient for a 2 hour rated room.

Building the rooms to code means following the proper asme. We always put an exit device on the inside of the door and swing the door out of the room so that if someone is injured while working on the elevator equipment they can get out without trying to grasp the hardware and pull the door open. Although asme a17 1 allows doors to machine rooms to have a width of 29 5 inches the ibc requires a minimum clear width of 32 inches. Only elevator related equipment is allowed inside the control room.

762mm and a minimum height of 6 ft 1 83m for machine rooms and a minimum height of 30 in. Condition triggers 1 or 1 hour. 762mm for other spaces specified in sections 3011 e 2 and 3011 e 3. A have a minimum width of 30 in.

Provide light switch and 110 vac gfi outlet in the control room with switch located adjacent to the door. Elevator safety is a critical consideration for builders who have state safety codes to follow permits to obtain and regular inspections to pass. We usually have a large 4 0 single door. An elevator machine room must be provided for each individual elevator or elevator group.

If access to the machine room is across a roof a stairway with a swing door shall be provided to the roof from the floor below roof access hatches are not permitted. A single disconnecting means for the car light and accessories shall be located in the control room and arranged to be locked in the open position. After the last sentence add. Iii in all other cases the machine room and access door must have the same rating as the machine room hoistway enclosure.