Table C4.

3-1 Minimum Uniformly Distributed Live Loads

Occupancy or Use kN/m²

Air conditioning (machine space) 9.58
Amusement park structure 4.79
Attic, nonresidential
Nonstorage 1.2
Storage 3.83
Bakery 7.18
Boathouse, floors 4.79
Boiler room, framed 14.36
Broadcasting studio 4.79
Ceiling, accessible furred 0.48
Cold storage
No overhead system 11.97
Overhead system
Floor 7.18
Roof 11.97
Computer equipment 7.18
Courtrooms 2.40 – 4.79
Dormitories
Nonpartitioned 3.83
Partitioned 1.92
Elevator machine room 7.18
Fan room 7.18
Foundries 28.73
Fuel rooms, framed 19.15
Greenhouses 7.18
Hangars 7.18
Incinerator charging floor 4.79
Kitchens, other than domestic 7.18
Laboratories, scientific 4.79
Laundries 7.18
Manufacturing, ice 14.36
Morgue 6
Printing plants
Composing rooms 4.79
Linotype rooms 4.79
Paper storage
Press rooms 7.18
Railroad tracks
Ramps
 Seaplane (see Hangars)
Restrooms 2.87
Rinks
Ice skating 11.97
Roller skating 4.79
Storage, hay or grain 14.36
Theaters
Dressing rooms 1.92
Gridiron floor or fly gallery:
Grating 2.87
Well beams / pair (kN/m) 3.65
Header beams (kN/m) 14.6
Pin rail (kN/m) 3.65
Projection room 4.79
Toilet rooms 2.87
Vaults, in offices 11.97
Transformer rooms 9.58