11/17/2015
Area per Person
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Area per Person Common area per person in buildings values that in general can be used to calculate indoor climate loads The table below can be used as a guide to 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.
Type of Building
Type of Room
Area per Person (m 2)
Apartments
(ft2) 100 400
Lecture room Assembly building
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
Fire Stations
100 500
Hotels
Hospitals
Rooms
5
Lobby
0.6
Assembly room
1.5
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 Motels
Clinic and Offices
50 150
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 Restaurant
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200 600 With service
1.5
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