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Design of Handicap Bathrooms

I’m currently working on a restaurant for a client and one of the items we have to cover in a project like this (or any project) is the bathroom.  The building code has a chart that determines the number of men and women’s bathrooms there are, and how many toilets and sinks are required in each bathroom.  Smaller restaurants will have a single bathroom for each sex with a sink in it.  As the size of the restaurant gets bigger the bigger each bathroom then becomes.

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Breakaway Walls Explained

Here’s a throw back to a video explaining the concept of breakaway walls that I did a few years ago. Simply put a breakaway wall is purposely designed to break when a certain amount pressure is applied to it. This is used in high flood areas to save the structure. If there walls were not a breakaway wall, the walls and the structure would then be lost in a flood.

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