Floor To Ceiling Height Commercial Building

Whats more important is floor floor height as ceiling voids vary.

Floor to ceiling height commercial building.

Our client is a commercial landlord who is looking to let commercial premises to a tenant. Floor areas for buildings. Is there a minimum ceiling height for a commercial building to be used as a shop. The builder has stated that the ceilings of the premises are too low and that it would be illegal to let to a tenant at the current height.

For commercial 13 15ft 3 96 4 57m usually containing air con ducting electrics etc. Minimum ceiling height in these buildings must be 7 feet 6 inches in hallways common areas and habitable rooms. As a guide and this is just a guide for residential i would say 10ft 3 05m with 10 concrete floor deck. In the top section of the drawing two levels are indicated.

The general services administration gsa has ceiling height standards too. Normally the height would be taken at level 2 but if the total plan size of the shaded areas in the bottom part of the drawing exceed 30 of the total area of the room the ceiling height should be measured to the first level indicated. Habitable spaces that have a sloped ceiling shall at no point have a ceiling height less than 5 feet and no less than 50 of the floor area shall have a ceiling height less than 7 feet. The international building code is used for commercial buildings and any building that contains more than two dwelling units such as apartment buildings.

Commercial buildings have increased service requirements and therefore will generally require minimum floor to underside of slab heights of 3 5 4 0 metres to achieve minimum ceiling heights of 3 0 metres but this is dependent upon structure and services depths. This applies to all habitable rooms as well as hallways and common areas.