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Detached houses, duplexes and townhouses up to 3 stories with their own exits use the IRC; every other building uses the IBC (IBC 101.2).

95 sections matching “IBC 903” for San Antonio, TX, the 2024 IBC, showing the first 60

  • IBC 903.2

    Where required

    • Sprinklers are required in new buildings per 903.2.1 to 903.2.12; telecom equipment spaces with detection and rated separation excepted.

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  • IBC 903.2.3

    Group E

    • Group E needs sprinklers over 12,000 sq ft, off the discharge level (unless each classroom exits at grade), or 300+ occupants.

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  • IBC 903.2.4

    Group F-1

    • F-1 needs sprinklers over 12,000 sq ft per fire area, more than 3 stories up, 24,000 sq ft combined, or lithium battery manufacturing.

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  • IBC 903.2.6

    Group I

    • Group I is sprinklered (13R allowed in I-1 Condition 1; grade-level I-4 day care with exterior doors excepted).

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  • IBC 903.2.7

    Group M

    • M needs sprinklers over 12,000 sq ft per fire area, more than 3 stories up, or 24,000 sq ft combined.

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  • IBC 903.2.9

    Group S-1

    • S-1 needs sprinklers over 12,000 sq ft, more than 3 stories up, 24,000 sq ft combined, commercial vehicle storage over 5,000 sq ft, or lithium vehicle storage over 500 sq ft.

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  • IBC 903.3.2

    Quick-response and residential sprinklers

    • Quick-response or residential heads in I-2 sleeping compartments, ambulatory care treatment compartments, I-1 and R units, and light-hazard areas.

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  • IBC 903.3.3

    Obstructed locations

    • Sprinklers account for obstructions and go under kiosks or equipment over 4 ft wide; keep 3 ft over combustible fiber piles.

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  • IBC 903.3.5

    Water supplies

    • Water supplies meet the standards, with backflow protection and seasonal pressure adjustments.

    Works withIPC

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  • IBC 903.3.9

    High-rise building floor control valves

    • High-rises have supervised floor control valves at each riser connection.

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  • IBC 903.4.1

    Electronic supervision

    • Valves, pumps, tanks and waterflow switches are electrically supervised, except in one- and two-family dwellings and certain locked valves.

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  • IBC 903.4.2

    Monitoring

    • Alarm, supervisory and trouble signals are distinct and sent to a supervising station.

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  • IBC 903.4.3

    Alarms

    • An exterior audible and visual waterflow alarm, tripped by one sprinkler's flow, and tied to any fire alarm system.

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  • IBC 903.2.10

    Group S-2 parking garages

    • Garages need sprinklers where enclosed fire area exceeds 12,000 sq ft, enclosed garages sit under other groups (except R-3), or open garages exceed 48,000 sq ft.

    Works withIBC 406.5IBC 406.6

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  • IBC 903.2.11

    Specific building areas and hazards

    • Outside Group U, sprinklers also go where 903.2.11.1 to 903.2.11.6 require.

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  • IBC 903.2.1.1

    Group A-1

    • A-1 needs sprinklers where the fire area exceeds 12,000 sq ft, holds 300+, is off the discharge level, or is a multitheater.

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  • IBC 903.2.1.2

    Group A-2

    • A-2 needs sprinklers where the fire area exceeds 5,000 sq ft, holds 100+, or is off the discharge level.

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  • IBC 903.2.1.3

    Group A-3

    • A-3 needs sprinklers over 12,000 sq ft, 300+ occupants, or off the discharge level.

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  • IBC 903.2.1.4

    Group A-4

    • A-4 needs sprinklers over 12,000 sq ft, 300+ occupants, or off the discharge level.

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  • IBC 903.2.1.6

    Assembly occupancies on roofs

    • Roof assembly over 100 (A-2) or 300 (other A) occupants requires sprinklers in all floors below.

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  • IBC 903.2.1.7

    Multiple fire areas

    • Assembly fire areas sharing exits with combined 300+ occupants need sprinklers.

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  • IBC 903.2.2.1

    Ambulatory care facilities

    • Floors with ambulatory care for four or more incapacitated patients, or any above or below discharge, are sprinklered with floors down to discharge.

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  • IBC 903.2.2.2

    Laboratories involving testing, research and development

    • Lithium battery R&D and testing fire areas are sprinklered.

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  • IBC 903.2.4.1

    Woodworking operations

    • F-1 woodworking over 2,500 sq ft producing fine dust is sprinklered.

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  • IBC 903.2.4.3

    Group F-1 upholstered furniture or mattresses

    • Furniture and mattress manufacturing over 2,500 sq ft is sprinklered.

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  • IBC 903.2.5.2

    Group H-5 occupancies

    • H-5 buildings are sprinklered to Ordinary Hazard Group 2 (Extra Hazard 2 for storage with dispensing).

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  • IBC 903.2.7.2

    Group M upholstered furniture or mattresses

    • Furniture and mattress display over 5,000 sq ft is sprinklered.

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  • IBC 903.2.7.3

    Lithium-ion or lithium metal battery storage

    • Battery storage in M sprinklered where the IFC requires.

    Works withIFC

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  • IBC 903.2.9.1

    Repair garages

    • Repair garages sprinklered over 10,000 sq ft (multistory) or 12,000 sq ft (one story), when servicing basement vehicles, commercial vehicle repair over 5,000 sq ft, or lithium vehicles over 500 sq ft.

    Works withIBC 406.8

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  • IBC 903.2.9.4

    Group S-1 upholstered furniture and mattresses

    • Furniture and mattress storage over 2,500 sq ft is sprinklered, except one-story exterior-access self-storage.

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  • IBC 903.3.1.1

    NFPA 13 sprinkler systems

    • Where full sprinklers are required, install NFPA 13 throughout except as noted.

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  • IBC 903.3.1.2

    NFPA 13R sprinkler systems

    • Group R may use NFPA 13R up to 4 stories, top floor 30 ft above fire access (R-2 roof under 45 ft), lowest floor 30 ft or less below.

    Works withIBC 510.2IBC 510.4

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  • IBC 903.3.5.2

    Residential combination services

    • Combination supplies add domestic demand to sprinkler demand per NFPA 13R.

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Searches all 4,276 IRC 2024 sections, 5,532 IBC 2024 sections and defined terms (Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33 so far) and each city's local rules as they are added. Section numbers and titles from the International Residential Code and International Building Code, 2024 editions, copyrighted by the International Code Council; the IRC's electrical chapters (34 to 43) follow NFPA 70, the National Electrical Code. Requirements are summarized in our words (IRC Chapters 3 to 43, IBC Chapters 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33); read the full text at the link on each result. Local values come from each city's published documents.

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