Notes to Table 4.1.3.2.:
4.1.5.3. Full and Partial Loading (1) The uniformly distributed live load shall be not less than the value listed in Table 4.1.5.3., which may be reduced as provided in Article 4.1.5.9., applied uniformly over the entire area, or on any portions of the area, whichever produces the most critical effects in the members concerned. Table 4.1.5.3.   Specified Uniformly Distributed Live Loads on an Area of Floor or Roof Forming Part of Sentence 4.1.5.3.(1)  Column 1

Column 2


Use of Area of Floor or Roof

Minimum Specified Load, kPa


Assembly Areas

 


(a) Except for those areas listed under (b) and (c), assembly areas with or without fixed seats including

4.8


Arenas


Auditoria


Churches and similar places of worship


Dance floors


Dining areas (1)


Foyers and entrance halls


Grandstands, reviewing stands and bleachers


Gymnasia


Museums


Promenades


Rinks


Stadia


Stages


Theatres


Other areas with similar uses


(b) Assembly areas with fixed seats that have backs over at least 80 per cent of the assembly area for the following uses:

2.4


Churches and similar places of worship


Courtrooms


Lecture halls


Theatres


(c) Classrooms with or without fixed seats

2.4


Attics

 


Accessible by a stairway in residential occupancies only

1.4


Having limited accessibility so that there is no storage of equipment or materials

0.5


Balconies

 


Exterior

4.8


Interior and mezzanines that could be used for the assembly of people as a viewing area (2)

4.8


Interior and mezzanines other than above

(2)


Corridors, lobbies and aisles

 


Other than those listed below

4.8


Not over 1 200 mm in width and all upper floor corridors of residential areas only of apartments, hotels and motels (that can not be used for the assembly of people as viewing area) (2)

(2)


In a Group B, Division 3 occupancy that contains sleeping accommodation for not more than 10 persons and not more than 6 occupants require assistance in evacuation in case of an emergency. 

2.4


Equipment areas and service rooms including

3.6(3)


Generator rooms


Mechanical equipment exclusive of elevators


Machine rooms


Pump rooms


Transformer vaults


Ventilating or air-conditioning equipment


Exits and fire escapes

4.8


Factories

6.0(3)


Footbridges

4.8


Garages for

 


Passenger cars

2.4


Unloaded buses and light trucks

6.0


Loaded buses and trucks and all other trucking spaces

12.0


Kitchens (other than residential)

4.8


Libraries

 


Stack rooms

7.2


Reading and study rooms

2.9


Office areas (not including record storage and computer rooms) located in

 


Basement and first storey

4.8


Floors above first storey

2.4


Operating rooms and laboratories

3.6


Patients' bedrooms 

1.9


Recreation areas that cannot be used for assembly purposes including

3.6


Billiard rooms


Bowling alleys


Pool rooms


Residential areas (within the scope of Article 1.3.3.2 of Division A)

 


Sleeping and living quarters in apartments, hotels, motels, boarding schools and colleges

1.9


Work areas within live/work units

2.4


Residential areas (within the scope of Article 1.3.3.3 of Division A)

 


Bedrooms

1.4


Other areas

1.9


Stairs within dwelling units

1.9


Retail and wholesale areas

4.8


Roofs

1.0(4)


Sidewalks and driveways over areaways and basements

12.0


Storage areas, including locker rooms in apartment buildings

4.8(3)


Toilet areas

2.4


Underground slabs with earth cover

(5)


Warehouses

4.8(3)