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Two tenant spaces

Apurva Dave

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In building Two spaces separated by firewalls etc as required. One space has occupancy type B and the second space is vacant. What type of occupancy does IBC say would vacant space have?
 
Do you really mean fire wall? Why do they need to be separated?

As to your question, the IBC doesn’t say anything—it’s whatever you or the owner have planned for that space. If they lease it out for an office-type business, then Group B. If they plan for a store, then Group M. If the owner has no plan for its use, then utilize the worst case situation—probably a Group A eating establishment.
 
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Vacant till occupied

Or

If say the rest of the building was majority B, more than likely this will be a B.
 
I thought i had seen a discussion a little while ago about vacant space needing to meet some occupancy based on the occupied adjacent space. Regardless of what the owner intended.
 
I thought i had seen a discussion a little while ago about vacant space needing to meet some occupancy based on the occupied adjacent space. Regardless of what the owner intended.
There’s nothing in the IBC that requires that.
 
The building was designed at some point and then built. What do the original drawings say it is built as? If this is a new building with two spaces, build it to the use group you want. Usually I see small (5000-10000 sq. ft.) vanilla box buildings come in as either a B use or an M use.
 
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