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5.6 SECTION FIVE<br />

TABLE 5.2 Minimum <strong>Design</strong> Live Loads<br />

a. Uniformly distributed live loads, lb/ft 2 , impact included a<br />

Occupancy or use Load Occupancy or use Load<br />

Assembly spaces:<br />

Auditoriums b with fixed seats<br />

Auditoriums b with movable seats<br />

Ballrooms <strong>and</strong> dance halls<br />

Bowling alleys, poolrooms,<br />

similar recreational areas<br />

Conference <strong>and</strong> card rooms<br />

Dining rooms, restaurants<br />

Drill rooms<br />

Gr<strong>and</strong>st<strong>and</strong> <strong>and</strong> reviewing-st<strong>and</strong><br />

seating areas<br />

Gymnasiums<br />

Lobbies, first-floor<br />

Roof gardens, terraces<br />

Skating rinks<br />

Stadium <strong>and</strong> arenas bleachers<br />

Bakeries<br />

Balconies (exterior)<br />

Up to 100 ft 2 on one- <strong>and</strong> twofamily<br />

houses<br />

Bowling alleys, alleys only<br />

Broadcasting studios<br />

Catwalks<br />

Corridors:<br />

Areas of public assembly, firstfloor<br />

lobbies<br />

Other floors same as occupancy<br />

served, except as indicated<br />

elsewhere in this table<br />

Fire escapes:<br />

Single-family dwellings only<br />

Others<br />

Garages:<br />

Passenger cars<br />

Trucks <strong>and</strong> buses<br />

Hospitals:<br />

Operating rooms, laboratories,<br />

service areas<br />

Patients’ rooms, wards,<br />

personnel areas<br />

Corridors above first floor<br />

Kitchens other than domestic<br />

Laboratories, scientific<br />

Libraries:<br />

Corridors above first floor<br />

Reading rooms<br />

Stack rooms, books <strong>and</strong><br />

shelving at 65 lb/ft 3 , but at<br />

least<br />

Manufacturing <strong>and</strong> repair areas:<br />

Heavy<br />

Light<br />

60<br />

100<br />

100<br />

75<br />

50<br />

100<br />

150<br />

100<br />

100<br />

100<br />

100<br />

100<br />

100<br />

150<br />

100<br />

60<br />

40<br />

100<br />

40<br />

100<br />

40<br />

100<br />

50<br />

60<br />

40<br />

80<br />

150<br />

100<br />

80<br />

60<br />

150<br />

250<br />

125<br />

Marques<br />

Morgue<br />

Office buildings:<br />

Corridors above first floor<br />

Files<br />

Offices<br />

Penal institutions:<br />

Cell blocks<br />

Corridors<br />

Residential:<br />

Dormitories<br />

Nonpartitioned<br />

Partitioned<br />

Dwellings, multifamily:<br />

Apartments<br />

Corridors<br />

Hotels:<br />

Guest rooms, private cooridors<br />

Public corridors<br />

Housing, one- <strong>and</strong> two-family:<br />

First floor<br />

Storage attics<br />

Uninhabitable attics<br />

Upper floors, habitable attics<br />

Schools:<br />

Classrooms<br />

Corridors above first floor<br />

First floor corridors<br />

Shops with light equipment<br />

Stairs <strong>and</strong> exitways<br />

H<strong>and</strong>rails, vertical <strong>and</strong> horizontal<br />

thrust, lb/lin ft<br />

Storage warehouse:<br />

Heavy<br />

Light<br />

Stores:<br />

Retail:<br />

Basement <strong>and</strong> first floor<br />

Upper floors<br />

Wholesale<br />

Telephone equipment rooms<br />

Theaters:<br />

Aisles, corridors, lobbies<br />

Dressing rooms<br />

Projection rooms<br />

Stage floors<br />

Toilet areas<br />

a See Eqs. (5.1) <strong>and</strong> (5.2).<br />

b Including churches, schools, theaters, courthouses, <strong>and</strong> lecture halls.<br />

c Use American Association of State Highway <strong>and</strong> Transportation Officials highway lane loadings.<br />

75<br />

125<br />

80<br />

125<br />

50<br />

40<br />

100<br />

60<br />

40<br />

40<br />

80<br />

40<br />

100<br />

40<br />

80<br />

20<br />

30<br />

40<br />

80<br />

100<br />

60<br />

100<br />

50<br />

250<br />

125<br />

100<br />

75<br />

125<br />

80<br />

100<br />

40<br />

100<br />

150<br />

60

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