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Apartments 100 - 400
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Lecture room 0.6
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Library 5
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Assembly building Cinema 0.6
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Concert hall 0.6
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• Water Systems Banks 50 - 150
Bars 15 - 50
Cafeterias 10 - 50
Churches 5 - 20
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Cocktail Lounges 15 - 50
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Dining Halls 10 - 50 Industry
Drug Store 15 - 50
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Fire Stations 100 - 500
Length Rooms 5
1.0 Hotels Lobby 0.6
m Assembly room 1.5
km General Areas 50 - 150
Hospitals Chemical Engineering
in Patient Rooms 80 - 150
ft Kindergarten 2-3
yards Kitchens 50 - 150
miles Libraries 30 - 100
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Luncheonettes 10 - 50
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Volume Malls 50 - 100
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1.0 Medical Centers Clinic and Offices 50 - 150 International
Public Spaces 100 - 200
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Motels Guest Rooms,
liters 100 - 200
Dormitories
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Municipal Buildings 50 - 150
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us gal Museums 30 - 100
Nightclubs 15 - 50
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Nursing Home Patient Rooms 80 - 150
Velocity Single office 10
Offices
1.0 Meeting room 1.5 Engineering
m/s Police Stations 100 - 500 Standards
Post Offices 100 - 500
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km/h
Post Offices 100 - 500
ft/min Precision Manufacturing 100 - 300
ft/s Residential 200 - 600
mph With service 1.5
Restaurant
knots Without service 1
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Lecture rooms 0.6
Pressure
Class rooms 2
1.0 Schools
Corridors 2
Pa (N/m 2 )
Laboratory 3
b ar
Retail 2
mm H2 O Shops
Supermarkets 2
kg/cm 2
Gymnasium 1.5
psi Sports
inches H2 O
Swimming pools 4
Supermarkets 50 - 100
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Taverns 15 - 50
Flow Town Halls 50 - 150
1.0
m 3 /s
1 m2 = 1550 in2 = 10.764 ft2 = 1.196 yd2
m 3 /h 1 ft2 = 0.0929 m2 = 144 in2 = 0.1111 yd2
US gpm
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