MarkhamBuilding InspectionsInspections
Visibility & Illumination Of Exit Signs
Published by City of Markham
This is the City of Markham’s document, as published on its website on 18 October 2026. The municipality may have changed it since: check the current version at the source. Legal notice
- Type
- Guide
- Published by
- City of Markham
- Date
- January 1, 2025
- Also called
- Visibility & Illumination of Exit Signs
- For
- designer
- Building types
- All building types
- Pages
- 4
- Instruments
- ISO 3864-1 · ISO 7010 · CSA C22.2 No.141 · CAN/ULC-S572, Photoluminescent and Self Luminous Signs and Path Marking Systems
Overview
The City of Markham's four-page Builder Tip No. 85, dated January 1, 2025 and updated to the 2024 OBC, one of its non-housing tips under the 2024 Ontario Building Code and the companion to its tip on exit sign location. It quotes Article 3.4.5.1., Exit Signage, including internally and externally illuminated signs, photoluminescent and self-luminous signs to CAN/ULC-S572 and emergency power. Its objective covers the 30.5 m maximum viewing distance, Rated Viewing Distance markings, sign heights of 152 mm to 330 mm, and recommended mounting heights.
What it covers
- 3.4.5.1. Exit Signage
- Objective
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