Burleson, TX Building Safety: Elevator Maintenance (2026)

The City Council adopts the 2021 International Building Code in § 10-141 and amends the elevator provisions in § 10-142, amendments (78) through (83). Hoistway enclosure: Section 3002.1 gets two exceptions. Elevators wholly located within atriums need no hoistway enclosure protection, and neither do elevators in open or enclosed parking garages that serve only the parking garage and comply with Sections 406.5 and 406.6, respectively. Section 3005.4 deletes the earlier exceptions and adds two parallel ones: machine rooms, control rooms, machinery spaces and control spaces need no enclosure protection when completely located within atriums or when located in parking garages that serve only the garage.

Machine room fire protection: Section 3005.5.1.1 requires the building to be equipped throughout with an automatic sprinkler system in accordance with Section 903.3.1.1, yet Section 3005.5.1.1.1 prohibits sprinklers in machine rooms, elevator machinery spaces, control rooms, control spaces and elevator hoistways. The sprinkler system carries a control valve supervisory switch and a water-flow initiating device for each floor, monitored by the building's fire alarm system. Section 3005.5.1.2 requires an approved method to keep water from sprinkler operation outside the elevator lobby out of the hoistway enclosure, and Section 3005.5.1.3 omits the shunt trip.

Storage: Section 3005.8 bans storage in the machine room, control room, machinery spaces and control spaces. The amended Section 903.2 repeats the ban for the elevator machine room and calls for signage at the entry doors indicating "ELEVATOR MACHINERY - NO STORAGE ALLOWED." Sections 3007.3 and 3008.3 are revised by deleting "enclosed" from their water protection text.

The building official or the official's designee enforces these amendments under § 10-53.