An 4500 sqft nightclub with moveable tables and chairs can safely occupy how many people according to the building code? See table above. O 150 O 300 O 643 O 450
An 4500 sqft nightclub with moveable tables and chairs can safely occupy how many people according to the building code? See table above. O 150 O 300 O 643 O 450
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Transcribed Image Text:TABLE 8-8
Method for calculating number of occupants of a
building
Occupant/Seat or
Floor Area/Occiupant
Оссирапсy
Assembly, with fixed chairs
with fixed seating benches
with fixed seating booths
with movable chairs
1occupant/seat
1 occupant/18 in.
1 occupant/24 in.
7 NFA
with movable chairs and tables
15 NFA
3 NFA
100 GFAD
with standing space only
Business area in a building
Educational, classroom area
Shops and other vocational areas
Library reading rooms
Library stack areas
Institutional, inpatient areas
Outpatient area
Sleeping area
Mercantile, basement, and grade
floor area
20 NFA
50 NFA
50 NFA
100 GFA
240 GFA
100 GFA
120 GFA
30 GFA
Area on other floors
60 GFA
Storage, stock, shipping areas
Parking garages
Residential
300 GFA
200 GFA
200 GFA
Miscellaneous (storage,
mechanical equipment, etc.)
300 GFA
*NFA (net floor area) is defined as the actual occupied area of the
space and shall not Indude unoccupled accessory areas or the
thickness of walls.
GFA (gross floor area) is defined as the floor area within the

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Library stack areas
Institutional, inpatient areas
Outpatient area
Sleeping area
Mercantile, basement, and grade
floor area
Area on other floors
100 GFA
240 GFA
100 GFA
120 GFA
30 GFA
60 GFA
Storage, stock, shipping areas
Parking garages
Residential
Miscellaneous (storage,
mechanical equipment, etc.)
300 GFA
200 GFA
200 GFA
300 GFA
"NFA (net floor area) is defined as the actual occupied area of the
space and shal not Indude unoccupled accessory areas or the
thickness of walls.
GFA (gross floor area) is defined as the floor area within the
perimeter of the outside walls of the bullding under consideration.
Source: Excerpt from BOCA National Bulding Code; see Section 10 of
BOCA/NBC for a complete listing of occupancies and exceptions.
An 4500 saft nightclub with moveable tables and chairs can safely occupy how many people according to the
building code? See table above.
O 150
O 300
O 643
O 450
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