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Jerome J. Lazar, CCS, CDT, CSI, SCIP
Senior Member
Username: lazarcitec
Post Number: 2083
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 11:45 am: |    |
If a glass guardrail has no rails is it still considered a guardrail? |
Marc Chavez
Senior Member
Username: mchavez
Post Number: 566
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 11:48 am: | |
yes.if it does not fail per the test loads in the IBC |
Marc Chavez
Senior Member
Username: mchavez
Post Number: 567
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 11:51 am: | |
when is a joke not a joke.....when it's told by a politician |
Rosa Cheney
Senior Member
Username: rdcaia
Post Number: 9
Registered: 07-2018
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 11:58 am: | |
The IBC uses the term "guard" separate from the term "handrail". So it seems a "guardrail" without a rail would just be a "guard"...which is what it was all along.
Would a guard by any other name...smell as sweet? |
Dave Metzger
Senior Member
Username: davemetzger
Post Number: 763
Registered: 07-2001
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 12:08 pm: | |
IBC 2018 addresses glass "guards" (they use this term, not "guardrails") in several locations, 1015.2.1, 2406.4.4, and 2407.
Section 1015 Guards, 1015.2.1 Glazing, states in part “Where glass is used to provide a guard or as a portion of the guard system, the guard shall com-ply with Section 2407.” Section 2407 is Glass in Handrails and Guards, and goes into detail about allowable glass types, required loading, etc. |
Jerome J. Lazar, CCS, CDT, CSI, SCIP
Senior Member
Username: lazarcitec
Post Number: 2084
Registered: 05-2003
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 12:11 pm: | |
job is in Grand Cayman, abides by 2009 IBC. |
Marc Chavez
Senior Member
Username: mchavez
Post Number: 568
Registered: 07-2002
| | Posted on Wednesday, February 19, 2020 - 12:15 pm: | |
yes and all that was in the 2009 code as well. |
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