Hi all,
I was doing the calculation for my office, and this confused me about the zone population because my office has 2 zones, office zone and conference rooms. Both are served by separate AHUs with separate OA supply.
What should i put in the zone population? Because people cannot occupy the office & conference room at the same time, so is there any ratio i can apply on the total design population?
Thank you,
Billy
Billy Nguyen
Facilities EngineerJune 4, 2012 - 10:52 pm
Maybe my question is not clear enough... Let's say i have 10 meeting rooms with capacity of 10 seats/room, so maximum number of occupants is 200. Should i put this number as the design population? Because i believe you will never see the rooms being occupied 100%.
Dylan Connelly
Mechanical EngineerIntegral Group
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June 5, 2012 - 3:48 pm
Billy,
In your case (2 zones, 2 separate systems) both zones need to separately account for the design maximum occupancy. You need to create calculations for each ventilation system separately.
If the same system was serving both the offices and the conference room you could take into account some design population diversity based on your judgement or the FTE.
Billy Nguyen
Facilities EngineerJune 19, 2012 - 11:18 am
Thank you, Dylan... Hope i can get enough for the IEQp1 requirements.