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Appendix
30.08.2007
9.4
Applications with zones
The following assumes a commercial building with a ground floor and four upper
floors. On the ground floor is a retail outlet with a showroom. Each of the upper
floors has four offices, three laboratories and one IT room (server, printer, fax etc.)
Access to the upper floors is via a staircase and good elevator. There are various
alternatives for dividing this commercial building into operating zones.
The commercial building is occupied by only one tenant. In this case the building
can easily be divided into 5 room groups or "geographical zone (apartm)".
Ground floor
Î
Geographical zone (apartm)=
1
(room group 1)
Stairwell
Î
Geographical zone (apartm)=
2
(room group 2)
All IT rooms
Floors 1 - 4
Î
Geographical zone (apartm)=
3
(Room group 3)
All offices
Floors 1 - 4
Î
Geographical zone (apartm)=
4
(Room group 4)
All laboratories
Floors 1 - 4
Î
Geographical zone (apartm)=
5
(Room group 5)
31
27
Z
1
5
3
5
2
4
5
2
4
5
2
4
5
2
4
1
There are five tenants in the commercial building. Tenant 1 occupies the ground
floor, and tenants 2 to 5 each occupy one of the four upper floors. All the tenants on
the upper floors have their own requirements for the offices and laboratories. From
a technical perspective, this requires the building to be divided into eleven
"geographical zone (apartm)" or room groups.
3
11
2
7
10
2
6
9
2
5
8
2
4
1
31
27
Z
3
5
2
2
3
11
7
3
8
4
1
Variant 1:
Variant 2: