How the 2024 Ontario Building Code Redefines Occupant Load—and Why It Matters The Difference One Clause Can Make The Ontario Building Code (OBC) is a comprehensive document with over 800 pages filled with countless requirements that shape the safety, functionality, and usability of buildings. Given its extensive and detailed nature, could altering just one clause […]
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LRI Engineering Can Help You Comply—Safely and Cost-Effectively Effective January 1, 2026, medical laboratories across Ontario, including hospital pathology labs must comply with new Ontario Fire Code (OFC) requirements for the storage of flammable and combustible liquids used in specimen preservation. What’s Changing? Under OFC Sentence 5.5.5.2.(3), labs must ensure that specimen containers: Are properly sized,
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What You Need to Know Medical laboratories across Ontario—including hospital-based pathology labs—will soon be subject to new fire safety requirements under the Ontario Fire Code (OFC). These changes, effective January 1, 2026, are designed to enhance safety in facilities that store flammable or combustible liquids used for preserving biological specimens. The requirements of the OFC are
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