9.28.5 Occupant Load

For determining the exits required, the number of persons within any floor area or the occupant load shall be based on the actual number of occupants, but in no case less than that specified in Table No.9-E below :-

Table No.9-E Sr. Occupant Load Floor Area Group of Occupancy No. in sq.m. per person

        (1)                                   (2)                                             (3)
         1       Residential                                                                 12.5
         2       Educational                                                                 4.0
         3       Institutional                                                          15 (See Note i)
         4       Assembly
                 a) With fixed or loose seat and dance                                 0.6 (See Note ii)

floors

b) Without seating facilities including 1.5 (See Note ii) dining rooms

5) Mercantile

a) Street floor & Sales basement 3

b) Upper sale floors 6

        6)       Business and industrial                                                      10
        7)       Storage                                                                      30
        8)       Hazardous                                                                    10

(1) Inserted Vide Corrigendum / Addendum No.CR.79/2021, dt.02nd December, 2021

Note :

i) Occupant load in dormitory portions of homes for the aged, orphanages, insane, asylums etc. where sleeping accommodation provided, shall be calculated at not less than 7.5 Sq.m. gross floor area per person.

ii) The gross floor area shall include, in addition to the main assembly rooms or space, any occupied connecting room or space in the same storey or in the storeys above or below where entrance is common to such rooms and spaces and they are available for use by the occupants of the assembly place. No deductions shall be made in the area for corridors, closets or other subdivisions, that area shall include all space serving the particular assembly occupancy.