Where could we access historical data on occupancy or attendance data of an international convention centre?
Would anyone be able to provide a some guidance on calculating FTEs and transients for a convention centre.
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Judhajit Chakraborty
Building Performance SpecialistWSP Built Ecology
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June 26, 2015 - 4:04 pm
Thats a tedious process. I spent may be a week doing that for a similar project type but in the end I found success.
Check if the facilities have that. Check on their past events calendar for a year and compile a data/charts for events day, non-events day and also for "move-in" and "move-out" days before and after the events. You will get a weekly trend of how many days there are events/non events/movein moveouts. Then probably use the occupant densities either from the local building code or from the Fire egress codes which ever is more, and plot it to the weekly trends. You can get to a close estimate from this process.
Furthermore, the facility may have a direction saying at any given time, it cannot support more than xxxxxx occupants (FTE. visitors combined)... so check on that as well. I am sure you can find the FTE count (staff) from the facility. That should be relatively easy.
Also if there were any sort of energy audits or upgrades that were done before, ask for that and check on that report. That should have some occupancy details.
Good luck :)
Meghan Ward
Architectural Technologist, Sustainable Design ConsultantAurecon South Africa
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June 30, 2015 - 10:13 am
Thank you Judhajt. This definitely helps.. I have a better idea of what to ask for.