Ingress / egress

Ingress is the way attendees enter, egress is the way they leave, and both are design decisions rather than accidents. Ingress covers the door from the street, how many people fit through it at once, where the lift or stairs land, and where the check-in table sits so a queue does not back up into the doorway. It also covers the path before the door, meaning what an attendee walks from the parking or the transit stop, and whether signage exists along it.

Egress is the same problem in reverse, made harder because everyone leaves at once and because part of it is a safety question. On a site visit, find the emergency exits, confirm they are unobstructed, and note that in many venues they are quietly stacked with chairs or storage. Ingress and egress are also where check-in flow, capacity, and crowd safety meet, which is why the decision belongs to the pre-event arc and not to whoever happens to be standing at the door on the day.

Source: Standard event and venue-operations terminology, listed in published event glossaries (Bizzabo, Convene) as how people enter and exit a space, planned so arrival and exit do not jam. The organizer-facing checklist framing (transit access, parking, traffic flow outside the main stage area) appears in the TEDx Organizer Guide’s venue section and the DevOpsDays organizing guide. Note that specific occupancy and egress requirements are set by local fire code. The Philippine rules, meaning RA 9514, the BFP fire safety inspection certificate, and LGU permits, were not verified in the course research and should be confirmed locally.

First used in: 1.6 · The venue: selection to BEO.