Locker Room Live Load

[MtnManBob]

What do you guys use for a locker room live load? It's ancillary to a gymnasium so I think 100 psf is overkill. Judging by my gyms locker room I'd go with 50 psf live + 20 psf partitions.

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Check the IBC 2009 -

I think 60 psf live and 10 psf partition would meet code??

 

[racookpe1978]

Nobody going to randomly drop a 280 lb barbell set in the locker room? (280 lbs / 6 square inches = ouch! 8<)

Seems like a 300 lb person would be your max load - all of that on two feet. Lockers are lightweight and spread out, but the benches? Easy to imagine a couple of three heavy-weights sitting at the same time on a bench held up by only two posts.

 

[InDepth]

Try Looking here

http://www.wbdg.org/design/physical_fit.php

 

[MiketheEngineer]

Are you talking showers and lockers or weight lifting and team meetings??

 

[MtnManBob]

Sorry guys, the question became moot once the owner moved the lockers to the basement and put handball courts on the framed level.