Revit Add-Ins or Software for Life Safety Plans?

5/21/2019

In my experience I've seen a handful of methods in Revit to create life safety plans, and in general they're all developed by the teams I've worked with using a combination of "rooms" and "railings" to calculate occupant loads and travel distances.

Is there any third-party add-ins or software that others use that could possibly help streamline these efforts?

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Ivonn8a link

5/21/2019 10:43:50 am

There are many workarounds for that but I don't know about an add in, you can check this blogs I hope, help you!

http://revitcat.blogspot.com/2012/04/escape-path-egress-travel-distance.html

http://revitcat.blogspot.com/2013/06/rtc-and-revit-egressescape-path-update.html

Ivonn8a link

5/21/2019 10:49:02 am

http://revitcat.blogspot.com/

Brian Gerdwagen FPE

5/21/2019 02:55:16 pm

I use the railing method for path of egress calculations. Although I changed it to a "Sprinkler" family so that the other disciplines in my office could hide it easier than if it remained a "Generic Model". For occupant load, I have the spaces use a calculated value from a table tied to an "Occupancy Group" parameter to divide into the space's area. The tough part is discussing the difference between Net and Gross area per person.

Eric Koehne link

12/27/2020 05:14:42 pm

https://bimsquare.com/revit-occupant-loads/

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