The wall between the spaces may be required to be a fully rated demising wall, or at the minimum, full height to structure. Or may not, depending on the occupancy and building type1) Sprinklering - The building is sprinklered. Does every room have to have sprinkler coverage? Yes
2) Electrical - I know residential requirements, but not commercial. Are receptacles required in office spaces the way they are in residential? No
3) Lighting - I would expect that separate lighting controls are required in every room. This being California, there will be other requirements for high-efficiency lights.
4) Egress - No puzzles in the current case.
5) ADA - I don't know what claims the current space has about accessibility; doors and signage might need to meet ADA standards.
6) Ventilation/mechanical - Must every room in a commercial space have ventilation? No
Any other major technical requirements?
The City's given huge tax gifts to tech companies to move here, and they're flooding in. I'm getting 1 or 2 calls per week very much like this one, and I'd just as soon have a structured response. These companies have some money.
Been there and done this with the very same industry. If they're asking dumb questions now, they'll never stop.
And chances are that they are going to fail six months to two years from now.
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Your AHJ will have many, if not all of these answers.
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How are you working up a proposal with no plans? The IBC requires commercial projects be submitted to the AHJ bearing a stamp from a RDP - section 107.1 There is an exception if your AHJ dismisses that requirement, but I can't envision any jurisdiction in Cali. doing so.
I'd over-bid that thing BIG if I didn't have a set of plans to work from...
You can't just go into an office and build a demising wall. In the commercial world it's all about safety, rules and reg, check codes in your area, and they may vary from town to town. I had an inspector fail me over the lip of my sink bowl being 34 1/16"
Did you throw a piece of vinyl flooring on the existing floor in front of the sink and tell him to measure again? :whistling:blink:
Not to be rude or disrespectful but if you are asking these types of questions, maybe you should decline to give these folks a price or get with subs to give you numbers.
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