Open Office

Annette. I've considered 'Open offices' to have assigned workstations and so require task lighting and controls that can be set for individuals. My problem is I don't yet understand enough about a commercial kitchen space to know with certainty on which side of this fine line it will fall. I doubt the cooks and staff have assigned workstations, and they certainly don't have seats/chairs. Although I have scheduled a meeting with the kitchen operators, I would be reassured if someone has experience with this building type to advise me.

Annette, in the Checklists tab we have the following tip: "An open office space counts as individually occupied when each person has an individual desk and a defined space." Let me know if this answers your question?Stewart, since this is a Design credit you could always submit in a way that works best for your project and then re-submit for Construction if you run into problems.  I could see this going either way. I would tend to see the kitchen as a multi-occupant space, but since the tasks involved can be so specific and intensive I would, as a "best practice" put care into designing the lighting for the workstations.