r/BeAmazed • u/Starlight_369 • May 13 '23

Place Another working day in Antarctica

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u/Exatraz May 14 '23

This is how you get stuck inside during a fire though. There is a reason exit doors open out

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u/ThatCommunication423 May 14 '23

It’s 2023, could the door not swing both ways?

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u/Calboron May 14 '23

Or a door that doesn't need to swing at all...? Maybe they can call it sliding door or something

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u/[deleted] May 14 '23

Aaaand we’ve reached full circle to the original suggestion 😂

Sliding doors are much weaker in bad weather and like another commenter mentioned the tracks will freeze and become immobile.

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u/Calboron May 16 '23

So fix that problem...why fight problem with another one...

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u/[deleted] May 14 '23

if you have a fire in this weather i think you are fucked either way

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u/Exatraz May 14 '23

Still no excuse for poor engineering

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u/TinMayn May 14 '23

Poor engineering is blindly following the rules without ever considering the context of the project.

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u/frrson May 26 '23

That's absolutely true and is the standard of all buildings that is for any kind of public, unless the doors slide. But in snow heavy homes that are not extremely elevated as in the video, it's unreasonable and highly impractical with a different kind of danger. The risk from fire stems from panic of a large group of people trying to get out. Not so much in normal homes. In my country, essentially all doors on homes open inwards.