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Air Change Rates

The document lists common types of rooms and buildings along with their typical air change rates measured in air changes per hour. Air change rates vary widely depending on the type of space, from a minimum of 1-2 air changes per hour for homes during night cooling and warehouses, to as high as 15-60 air changes per hour for kitchens. Higher air change rates are generally needed where there are higher levels of heat, moisture, fumes or odors being generated.

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Air Change Rates

The document lists common types of rooms and buildings along with their typical air change rates measured in air changes per hour. Air change rates vary widely depending on the type of space, from a minimum of 1-2 air changes per hour for homes during night cooling and warehouses, to as high as 15-60 air changes per hour for kitchens. Higher air change rates are generally needed where there are higher levels of heat, moisture, fumes or odors being generated.

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Table below indicates air change rates (air changes per hour) in common types of rooms and

buildings.

Building / Room Air Change Rate (1/h)


All spaces in general min 4
Assembly halls 4-6
Attic spaces for cooling 12 - 15
Auditoriums 8 - 15
Bakeries 20 - 30
Banks 4 - 10
Barber Shops 6 - 10
Bars 20 - 30
Beauty Shops 6 - 10
Boiler rooms 15 - 20
Bowling Alleys 10 - 15
Cafeterias 12 - 15
Churches 8 - 15
Classrooms 6 - 20
Club rooms 12
Clubhouses 20 - 30
Cocktail Lounges 20 - 30
Computer Rooms 15 - 20
Court Houses 4 - 10
Dance halls 6-9
Dental Centers 8 - 12
Department Stores 6 - 10
Dining Halls 12 -15
Dining rooms (restaurants) 12
Dress Shops 6 - 10
Drug Shops 6 - 10
Engine rooms 4-6
Factory buildings, ordinary 2-4
Factory buildings, fumes and moisture 10 - 15
Fire Stations 4 - 10
Foundries 15 - 20
Galvanizing plants 20 - 30
Garages repair 20 - 30
Building / Room Air Change Rate (1/h)
Garages storage 4-6
Homes, night cooling 10 - 18
Hospital rooms 4-6
Jewelry shops 6 - 10
Kitchens 15 - 60
Laundries 10 - 15
Libraries, public 4
Lunch Rooms 12 -15
Luncheonettes 12 -15
Nightclubs 20 - 30
Machine shops 6 - 12
Malls 6 - 10
Medical Centers 8 - 12
Medical Clinics 8 - 12
Medical Offices 8 - 12
Mills, paper 15 - 20
Mills, textile general buildings 4
Mills, textile dye houses 15 - 20
Municipal Buildings 4 - 10
Museums 12 -15
Offices, public 3
Offices, private 4
Photo dark rooms 10 - 15
Pig houses 6 - 10
Police Stations 4 - 10
Post Offices 4 - 10
Poultry houses 6 - 10
Precision Manufacturing 10 - 50
Pump rooms 5
Residences 1-2
Restaurants 8 - 12
Retail 6 - 10
School Classrooms 4 - 12
Shoe Shops 6 - 10
Shopping Centers 6 - 10
Building / Room Air Change Rate (1/h)
Shops, machine 5
Shops, paint 15 - 20
Shops, woodworking 5
Substation, electric 5 - 10
Supermarkets 4 - 10
Swimming pools 20 - 30
Town Halls 4 - 10
Taverns 20 - 30
Theaters 8 - 15
Transformer rooms 10 - 30
Turbine rooms, electric 5 - 10
Warehouses 2
Waiting rooms, public 4
Warehouses 6 - 30

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