Building Design and Construction Handbook - Merritt - Ventech!

3.46 SECTION THREE
TABLE 3.6 Typical Occupant Load Requirements for
Types of Occupancy
Occupancy
Net floor
area per
occupant,
ft 2
Auditoriums 7
Billiard rooms 50
Bowling alleys 50
Classrooms 20
Dance floors 7
Dining spaces (nonresidential) 12
Exhibition spaces 10
Garages and open parking structures 250
Gymnasiums 15
Habitable rooms 200
Industrial shops 200
In schools 50
Institutional sleeping rooms 120
Kindergartens 35
Kitchens (nonresidential) 200
Laboratories 50
Preparation rooms 100
Libraries 25
Locker rooms 12
Offices 100
Passenger terminals or platforms 1.5C*
Sales areas (retail)
First floor or basement
30
Other floors 60
Seating areas (audience) in places of assembly
Fixed seats
D†
Movable seats 10
Skating rinks 15
Stages S‡
Storage rooms 300
*C � capacity of all passenger vehicles that can be unloaded
simultaneously.
†D � number of seats or occupants for which space is to be used.
‡S � 75 persons per unit of width of exit openings serving a stage
directly, or one person per 15 ft of performing area plus one person
per 50 ft 2 of remaining area plus number of seats that may be placed
for an audience on stage.