Fire door assemblies are more commonly found in the interior of a building – for example, in the walls surrounding an exit stairwell.  This helps to protect the means of egress – in this case, the stairwell – from a fire in the building.  In buildings without a sprinkler system, those stairwell doors are required by the IBC to have a temperature rise rating of 450 degrees.  This helps to ensure that people can use the stairwell during a fire, by limiting the amount of heat transferred through the door.

I received these Fixed-it Friday photos from Don Funsch of Commercial Mill and Builders Supply, who was in the process of supplying a new fire door assembly for this location.  The door is an exterior stair discharge door on a building in San Francisco.  The assembly is required to be rated for 90 minutes and have a 450-degree temperature rise rating because it is within 15 feet of the property line.  You can clearly see how the door protected the building from a mattress fire that was set outside.

Another fire door win!

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