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Project Description

Finch West LRT Station (FWS) will be the terminus station at the east end of the Finch West Light Rail Transit (FWLRT) System. The station will be located at 3933 Keele Street, Toronto, ON. FWS is an enclosed station with an underground central platform. The platform will be accessible via the concourse level located below the platform which will in turn be connected to an at-grade entrance building. Additionally, the station will serve as an interchange station, providing FWLRT passengers with access to Line 1 of the TTC subway system via an underground walkway from the concourse.The design and construction of the station is subject to the applicable requirements of the Ontario Building Code (OBC), NFPA 130 and the FWLRT Project Specific Outcomes Specification (PSOS). FWS is classified as a rapid transit station per the OBC. The major occupancy classification of the station is Group A, Division 2 ¿ Assembly Occupancy. Consequentially, the exit and access to exit doors within the station are subject to the OBC requirements applicable for doors in assembly occupancies.Per OBC Sentence 3.4.6.16.(2), exit doors from a floor area containing an assembly occupancy having an occupant load more than 100 persons are to be equipped with a device that will release the latch and allow the door to swing wide open when a force of not more than90 N is applied to the device in the direction of travel to the exit. OBC Sentence 3.4.6.16.(5) prevents electromagnetic locks from being installed on the doors mentioned above. Additionally, OBC Clause 3.3.1.12.(10)(c) and OBC Sentence 3.3.2.6.(1) read in conjunction state that electromagnetic locking devices are not permitted to be installed on doors providing access to egress from a floor area within an assembly occupancy containing an occupant load more than 100 persons. In short, the OBC does not permit the installation of electromagnetic locks on exit and access to exit doors serving floor areas in assembly occupancies which have occupant loads greater than 100 persons.Within FWS, there are seven access to exit doors and one exit door that are proposed to be equipped with an electromagnetic lock for a total of eight doors.

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