For facility managers and occupational safety officers
This is a top view of a real changing-room plan calculated by metalgen: locker rows, benches, aisles, a door. The people on it are a model. The aisles and the norm are not. Calculated for the Ukrainian market.
An illustrative model. Not an evacuation calculation and not a safety conclusion.The plan and the norm are real. metalgen does not calculate people's movement.
The model is calculating frames…
This device cannot draw the heat map. People and the plan still work, and the numbers below do not change.
The model runs in your browser. On a phone it only starts when you ask.
cl. 5.2.1.2, Table 3, Table 3
Synthetic brief for 60 people. Room 9 × 6 m, 6 rows, 60 lockers, 1,000 mm door. Social force model. Speed 1.25 ± 0.15 m/s, body radius 0.18–0.23 m, reaction 0.5 s, A 120 N, B 0.25 m, at the locker 60–150 s, seed 1405.
For facility managers and occupational safety officers
This is a top view of a real changing-room plan calculated by metalgen: locker rows, benches, aisles, a door. The people on it are a model. The aisles and the norm are not. Calculated for the Ukrainian market.
The metalgen planner: headcount, room, benches. It shows lockers, aisles and the norm with its clause. There is no crowd there.
6 rows, 60 lockers with 120 compartments, aisles, one 1,000 mm door. metalgen calculated the brief for 60 people in a 9 × 6 m room; the brief itself is synthetic. Every aisle is labelled: mm between locker fronts, what stays clear of the bench seat, what the norm requires.
35 people come in over the minutes before the shift, each to their own locker, in street clothes. They change: the orange yoke on the shoulders means work clothes. The floor remembers where it was busy: the warmer, the more people per square metre over the last 20 seconds.
The old shift, 25 people, comes in while the new one is still changing. In the peak frame 27 people are in the room, and aisle A3 is the tightest: 1.7 people/m² in the model. By the norm it is fine: 1,650 mm between fronts, 1,050 mm clear, because the bench seat stands in the aisle. A cost estimate does not show that difference.
metalgen places the same 120 compartments in a 9.5 × 6 m room: 4 rows instead of 6, a 2,000 mm aisle, 1,400 mm clear, a far passage behind the rows. 57 m² instead of 54. With the same people the model gives 1.2 people/m² instead of 1.7. The decision is yours: the model only shows the difference.
The norm answers whether it is allowed: at least 1,400 mm in this aisle, cl. 5.2.1.2, Table 3, Table 3. The model answers another question: where people gather if you assume this schedule and this speed. The second does not replace the first or cancel it.
Change the aisle, the headcount and the scenario, scrub the timeline. The aisle variants are only those metalgen calculated; there are no values in between. It refuses a 8 × 6 m room with benches: 116 of 120 compartments fit.
An illustrative model. Not an evacuation calculation and not a safety conclusion.The plan and the norm are real. metalgen does not calculate people's movement.
The model is calculating frames…
This device cannot draw the heat map. People and the plan still work, and the numbers below do not change.
The model runs in your browser. On a phone it only starts when you ask.
cl. 5.2.1.2, Table 3, Table 3
Synthetic brief for 60 people. Room 9 × 6 m, 6 rows, 60 lockers, 1,000 mm door. Social force model. Speed 1.25 ± 0.15 m/s, body radius 0.18–0.23 m, reaction 0.5 s, A 120 N, B 0.25 m, at the locker 60–150 s, seed 1405.
The left part of the table is the metalgen calculation. The right part is the same model with the headcount from the brief. They are different things, and they are kept apart. The briefs are synthetic and calculated for the Ukrainian market.
| Norm and plan (metalgen) | Model (illustration) | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Room | Aisle, mm | Clear, mm | Norm, mm | Catalogue total | Aisle peak | Door peak | People in room, max | Peak frame |
| 60 people · 35 + 25 Shift change | ||||||||
| 7 × 6 m no benches | 1,000 | — | ≥ 1,000 | 322,920 UAH | 2.2 people/m² | 0.8 people/m² | 28 |  |
| 8 × 6 m no benches | 1,250 | — | ≥ 1,000 | 322,920 UAH | 1.7 people/m² | 0.7 people/m² | 28 |  |
| 9 × 6 m no benches | 1,500 | — | ≥ 1,000 | 322,920 UAH | 1.5 people/m² | 0.6 people/m² | 28 |  |
| 9 × 6 m benches under lockers · brief as is | 1,650 | 1,050 | ≥ 1,400 | 436,500 UAH | 1.7 people/m² | 1.0 people/m² | 29 |  |
| 9.5 × 6 m benches under lockers | 2,000 | 1,400 | ≥ 2,000 | 436,500 UAH | 1.2 people/m² | 0.5 people/m² | 27 |  |
| 8 × 6 m | Room 8 × 6 m: metalgen refuses, 116 of 120 compartments fit. This variant does not exist, and the model will not show it. | |||||||
| 20 people · 20 Shift arrives | ||||||||
| 4.5 × 4 m separate benches | 3,500 | 1,840 | ≥ 1,400 | 60,894 UAH | 1.2 people/m² | 0.5 people/m² | 12 |  |
| 5 × 4 m separate benches | 4,000 | 2,340 | ≥ 1,400 | 60,894 UAH | 1.0 people/m² | 0.4 people/m² | 12 |  |
| 6 × 4 m separate benches · brief as is | 5,000 | 3,340 | ≥ 1,400 | 60,894 UAH | 0.8 people/m² | 0.5 people/m² | 12 |  |
| 120 people · 70 + 50 Shift change | ||||||||
| 15 × 9 m no benches | 1,500 | — | ≥ 1,400 | 730,080 UAH | 1.0 people/m² | 0.7 people/m² | 49 |  |
| 15 × 11.4 m no benches | 1,850 | — | ≥ 1,400 | 730,080 UAH | 0.5 people/m² | 0.7 people/m² | 48 |  |
| 17.5 × 11.5 m separate benches | 2,042 | 1,212 | ≥ 2,000 | 822,609 UAH | 0.7 people/m² | 0.7 people/m² | 51 |  |
| 17.5 × 11.5 m benches under lockers | 2,175 | 1,575 | ≥ 2,000 | 985,320 UAH | 0.5 people/m² | 0.7 people/m² | 48 |  |
| 6 × 4 m | Room 6 × 4 m: metalgen refuses, 24 of 240 compartments fit. This variant does not exist, and the model will not show it. | |||||||
Room 8 × 6 m: metalgen refuses, 116 of 120 compartments fit. This variant does not exist, and the model will not show it.
Room 6 × 4 m: metalgen refuses, 24 of 240 compartments fit. This variant does not exist, and the model will not show it.
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Quotes are verbatim in Ukrainian, from metalgen's verified sources, with a translation. The planned aisle width is the larger of two numbers: Table 3 and the evacuation route.
«Шафи гардеробних для зберігання одягу за кількості відділень в ряду: до 18 1,4/1,0**) (2,4/1,8) понад 18 до 36 2/1,4**) (2,4/1,8); **) У знаменнику наведена ширина проходів між рядами шаф без лав.»Aisle between locker rows with benches, up to 18 compartments in a row: at least 1.4 m.
Aisle between locker rows without benches, up to 18 compartments in a row: at least 1.0 m.
Aisle between locker rows with benches, over 18 and up to 36 compartments in a row: at least 2.0 m.
Aisle between locker rows without benches, over 18 and up to 36 compartments in a row: at least 1.4 m.
Source«Висота та ширина шляхів евакуації встановлюється НД відповідно до призначення будинку. При цьому висота шляхів евакуації повинна бути не меншою ніж 2,0 м, а їх ширина – 1,0 м.»An evacuation route is at least 1.0 m wide and at least 2.0 m high.
Source«Ширину проходів між стіною і рядами обладнання допускається зменшувати на 40%, за кількості одиниць обладнання більше шести в ряду - збільшувати на 25%.»An aisle between a wall and a locker row may be up to 40% narrower than the table.
Source«При тупикових проходах між шафами для одягу кількість відділень в ряду зменшують на 35 %.»For a dead-end aisle the limits of 18 and 36 compartments in a row are reduced by 35%.
SourceCheck the norm against the edition in force before buying: this page does not replace that.
Every assumption is in view. Change them and the picture changes, which is why it is not a conclusion.
The seed assigns people to lockers. The arrival schedule, changing time and the door as the only way in and out are assumptions of this page. A and B were chosen for calm walking and have not been checked against measurements of a real changing room.
There the brief becomes yours: headcount, room, benches. A refusal also comes with a reason and numbers.
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