Hi all,
I was wondering if anyone could give me some advcie on occupany level calculating for my studies, I'm gettung a little confuesed reading the different regs such as Part B and BS5588, and struggling to give a difinative calculation method. the quesion i've been asked is below and i'm struggling to find a clear calcution method...please can someone help...the question roughly translates as follows
Consider the following;
"if a floor level of 7500 sq ft and Its on the 8th floor of a 21 storey building of concrete construction with excellent compartementation throughout, the client needs to house up to a maximum of 250 students, its for a training centre i.e mainly classrooms, it has two main protected fire staircases 1400mm wide with handrails both sides. the floor has 2 x double doors exits and two single door exits , these lead onto a protected lift lobby in the core of the building and then the two protected fire escape routes run of this lift lobby. Currently there is about 2000 occupants in the building with 10 diferent tenants, the fire strategy is a full evacuation not phased
when considering you answer, what advice would you give the client on there need to have 250 students based on the above information what would be a sensible figure as a guidance to your clients to allow them see if the building is suitable for there needs or if any other consideration could be used to increase ocupancy levels"
