Full-Powered Automatic Doors and Gates [§404.3]

Full-Powered Automatic Doors and Gates [§404.3]

Full-powered automatic doors and gates are often found in grocery and retail stores, hotels, and airports to ease passage with shopping carts or luggage. Most are automatically activated by mats or overhead sensors and do not require manual activation by users.

Automated Door (Full-Powered)

Full-powered automated door. Notes: Clear Width 32” min. (clear opening with all leaves in open position (power on and off modes), Break Out Opening 32’ min. (emergency mode) for doors on means of egress without standby power (unless a compliant manual swinging door also serves the same means of egress), Threshold 1/2” max. high (beveled if above 1/4”), Maneuvering Clearance is required at those doors serving an accessible means of egress that either lack standby power or that do not stay open in power-off mode, Industry Standard Compliance with the ANSI/BHMA A156.10 (1999), Doors in Series 48” min. separation between the swing of doors in series, Revolving Doors and Gates (§404.3.7), Manual revolving doors and gates and turnstiles are not accessible and cannot be part of accessible routes. Automated revolving doors, including those sized to facilitate access, do not meet the Standards. If they are provided at an accessible entrance, a compliant manual or automated door is also required.

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