Required Building Space per Person
The table below can be used as a guide to required area (square metre or square feet) per person inside some typical buildings and rooms. The values can be used to calculate human sensible and latent heat load.
| 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 | ||
| Theater | 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 | ||
| Factories | Assembly hall | 2 - 5 | |
| Factories | Light manufacturing | 10 - 20 | |
| Factories | Heavy manufacturing | 20 - 30 | |
| 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, Dormitories | 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 | Retail | 2 | |
| Supermarkets | 2 | ||
| Sports | Gymnasium | 1.5 | |
| Swimming pools | 4 | ||
| Supermarkets | 50 - 100 | ||
| Taverns | 15 - 50 | ||
| Town Halls | 50 - 150 | ||
- 1 m2 = 10.764 ft2
- 1 ft2 = 0.0929 m2
Note! - be aware of local restrictions, codes and their minimum values. They may diverge considerably from the numbers above.
Occupancy Rate
Occupancy Rate is maximum numbers of persons per area unit.
If the minimum area per person is 100 sq ft - the occupation rate is 1/100 = 0.01 person per sq.ft - or 10 persons per 1000 sq.ft.
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