Horizontal sliding doors

[PYRROS]

Can horizontal glass sliding doors be used as the entrance to a suite in a health care occupancy?

I realize that corridor doors should normally latch. Are these considered "powered doors" that don't require mechanical latching in the corridor by the NFPA 101?

 

[cdafd]

can you define suite
and is this a true hospital or something else??

1. hospital room

2. some ones office

3. break room

4. some other room use???

 

[DonPhillips]

A manual or powered sliding door may be allowed, if it is not part of the means of egress. Doors in a corridor may require latching if the corridor is to be smoke protected and/or fire rated.

It is very difficult to look at one door without the context of the entire building.

Don Phillips

http://worthingtonengineering.com