Article 2: Establishing Exit Requirements [C26-601] SS.1 27-357 Exit conditions The occupancy group classification of the building, the number of people, the floor area, the travel distance to an exit, and the capacity of the exits, as specified in table 6-1 and herein, should be used to determine the exit requirements for a building. If these criteria are not met, then other factors such as location, design, construction, and maintenance must be considered. Example 1: A two-story, 20,000 square foot office building has one exit on each floor. There is no stairway access between floors. Determine the required number of exits for this building. The required number of exits is one per 2000 square feet of floor space. Since the total floor area of the building is 20,000 square feet, it meets the requirement for one exit per 2000 square feet of floor space. Example 2: An eight-story, 200,000 square foot office building has one exit on each floor except for the top three floors which have two exits. Since there are only four floors with single exits, they meet the requirement for one exit per 2000 square feet of floor space. However, since the top three floors have less than two exits per floor area, they do not meet the requirement for six exits per 1000 square feet of floor space.