Throughout the United States, property owners are legally required to comply with their building’s occupancy load limit. If you are a property owner, it would be a good idea to make sure that you’re familiar with the occupancy load limit for your building. In short, this number is the maximum number of people who can legally occupy the given space. The number is provided for a number of reasons – to ensure that there is enough space for a timely evacuation and to ensure that the building doesn’t collapse are two powerful ones on that list.
A building’s occupancy load limit is calculated based on a few different variables. These may vary a little bit from state to state, but typically it’s a calculation of the overall space of the building, how many exits are available, and how much space each person needs to carry out the given activity of the building.
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