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Just how many visitors is your site designed to carry at any one time?

Work it out using the Design Load Formula below!
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Site Design Load Formula




Site Design Load Formula For Visitor Centers, Museums, Attractions, etc.




Site Design Formula


The following is an example of the formula we use to identify the design load for a visitor centre, museum, historic site, etc.

In this example we assuming that 80% of the visitors will use the centre....

DL = VI x .80 x VS x VW
_______________________

NW




  • DL = Design load for the visitor Center
  • VI = Total visitation for the site (estimate)
  • VS = Percentage of visitation occurring during your peak season
  • VW = Percentage of peak season visitation occurring on weekend days or holidays
  • NW = Number of weekend days or holidays during the peak season


  • Therefore;

    DL = 521,000 x .80 x.80 x .70 = 8,644




    To determine people at one time (PAOT) expected in the center:

    PAOT = DL
    _________

    H x TR



  • DL = design load from above
  • H = number of hours of operations (8 used in this example)
  • TR = Turnover Rate (estimated 20 minutes length of visit or turnover of 3 visitors per hour)


  • Therefore...

    PAOT = 8644 = 360 people at one time at your busiest time 8x3


    So What Next?


    360 visitors will need 25sq.ft. of floor space each as a MINIMUM for psychological carrying capacity. That means this facility needs an exhibit room and / or space of 9,000 square feet if all the visitors were in the facility at one time.

    This also means that you will need XXXX number of staff on duty, you will need XXXX number of burgers in the cafe and the the car park would need parking spaces for at least XXXX number of cars and coaches?




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