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FEMA 453 Design Guidance for Shelters and Safe Rooms

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Figure 3-<br />

open the doors into the stairwell is slightly less than 30 pounds at<br />

the door h<strong>and</strong>le <strong>for</strong> the (inward opening) doors, the maximum<br />

door opening <strong>for</strong>ce allowed by fire code.<br />

Ideally, a blower door-test is per<strong>for</strong>med after the permanent sealing<br />

measures, including door seals, have been added. In per<strong>for</strong>ming<br />

the blower door test be<strong>for</strong>e these permanent sealing measures are<br />

applied, the doors are taped temporarily at the periphery to simulate<br />

their being permanently sealed. Results of the blower door test,<br />

graphed in Figure 3-6, show that, with doors sealed with tape, the<br />

stairwell could be pressurized to 0.3 iwg with about 3,000 cubic feet<br />

per minute (cfm).<br />

Blower-door test results on the stairwell selected <strong>for</strong> a safe room<br />

SoURCe: BaTTelle<br />

3-3 CBR ThReaT pRoTeCTion

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