Area per Person
Normal area per person in some common buildings - the values can be used to calculate indoor climate loads
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The table below can be used as a guide to what is often regarded as required area (square meter or square feet) per person inside some typical buildings and rooms. The values can also be used to calculate human sensible and latent heat load to indoor climate.
| Type of Building | Type of Room | Area per Person | |
| (m2) | (ft2) | ||
| Apartments | 100 - 400 | ||
| Assembly building | Lecture room | 0.6 | |
| Library | 5 | ||
| Cinema | 0.6 | ||
| Concert hall | 0.6 | ||
| Theatre | 0.6 | ||
| Banks | 50 - 150 | ||
| Bars | 15 - 50 | ||
| Cafeterias | 10 - 50 | ||
| Churches | 5 - 20 | ||
| Clubhouses | 15 - 50 | ||
| Cocktail Lounges | 15 - 50 | ||
| Computer Rooms | 80 - 150 | ||
| Court Houses | 50 - 150 | ||
| Dental Centers | Clinic and Offices | 50 - 150 | |
| Department Stores | 15 - 75 | ||
| Dining Halls | 10 - 50 | ||
| Drug Store | 15 - 50 | ||
| Fire Stations | 100 - 500 | ||
| Hotels | Rooms | 5 | |
| Lobby | 0.6 | ||
| Assembly room | 1.5 | ||
| Hospitals | General Areas | 50 - 150 | |
| Patient Rooms | 80 - 150 | ||
| Kindergarten | 2 - 3 | ||
| Kitchens | 50 - 150 | ||
| Libraries | 30 - 100 | ||
| Luncheonettes | 10 - 50 | ||
| Lunch Rooms | 10 - 50 | ||
| Malls | 50 - 100 | ||
| Medical Centers | Clinic and Offices | 50 - 150 | |
| Motels | Public Spaces | 100 - 200 | |
| Guest Rooms, Dormitories | 100 - 200 | ||
| Municipal Buildings | 50 - 150 | ||
| Museums | 30 - 100 | ||
| Nightclubs | 15 - 50 | ||
| Nursing Home Patient Rooms | 80 - 150 | ||
| Offices | Single office | 10 | |
| Meeting room | 1.5 | ||
| Police Stations | 100 - 500 | ||
| Post Offices | 100 - 500 | ||
| Precision Manufacturing | 100 - 300 | ||
| Residential | 200 - 600 | ||
| Restaurant | With service | 1.5 | |
| Without service | 1 | ||
| Retail Stores | 15 - 75 | ||
| Schools | Lecture rooms | 0.6 | |
| Class rooms | 2 | ||
| Corridors | 2 | ||
| Laboratory | 3 | ||
| Shops | Detail | 2 | |
| Supermarkets | 2 | ||
| Sports | Gymnasium | 1.5 | |
| Swimming pools | 4 | ||
| Supermarkets | 50 - 100 | ||
| Taverns | 15 - 50 | ||
| Town Halls | 50 - 150 | ||
- 1 m2 = 1550 in2 = 10.764 ft2 = 1.196 yd2
- 1 ft2 = 0.0929 m2 = 144 in2 = 0,1111 yd2
Be aware of local restrictions and minimums limits. They may diverge considerably from the numbers above.
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