How Architects Find Max Occupancy For a Building

Have you ever seen those maximum occupancy signs in a room somewhere and wondered, why is it that number? This room couldn't fit 100 people, could it? Well, believe it or not, Architects need to calculate that number to design a room in case of a fire. Today, I’m gonna show you how we figure out the occupant load in buildings by using a real project as an example.

00:00 Intro
00:53 Last week's work on this new project
01:38 Why are those max occupancy signs put in rooms?
02:28 The floor plan for this building is simple
02:58 Where we look in the building code. Chapter 10: Means of Egress
03:35 How offices are calculated for max occupancy
05:25 How Assembly spaces are defined
06:00 Lobbies are classified as business spaces
06:25 Break rooms are assembly spaces too
07:00 We only calculate occupancy for habitable spaces
07:33 The meeting room is a more complicated assembly space