Continue to Site

Eng-Tips is the largest engineering community on the Internet

Intelligent Work Forums for Engineering Professionals

  • Congratulations waross on being selected by the Eng-Tips community for having the most helpful posts in the forums last week. Way to Go!

Occupancy Query

Status
Not open for further replies.

StewardMM

Civil/Environmental
Mar 5, 2012
37
What is the standard occupancy space requirement for office building per person? Can you pls site reference codes of it. thanks
 
Replies continue below

Recommended for you

The quick answer is 100 sq ft/person. But you also need to look for areas that are anticipated to exceed 50 people (i.e. conference rooms) as they become an "assembly occupancy" and the numbers are significantly different.

Per NFPA 101 (Life Safety Code) table 7.3.1.2 "Business Use" is 100 sq ft/person in "gross area".

Per the International Building Code (IBC) 2009 table 1004.1.1 "Business areas" is 100 gross.


Mark Gouveia
Anvil Fire, PLLC
 
Status
Not open for further replies.

Part and Inventory Search

Sponsor