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Code & Permitting
What is Egress?
Egress is the code-regulated path of escape from a building: exit counts, travel distances, corridor and stair widths, door swings, and discharge to safety. Egress requirements shape floor plans more than almost any other code provision.
In practice
Egress checking is a natural automation target because the rules are geometric: travel distance and width can be measured on a model. Most automated code tools start here.
Tools for Egress
UpCodes
Building code research and compliance
ArchiMind
Native Revit add-in running 182+ California Building Code checks on walls, rooms, doors and windows in under a minute.
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