Treffer: Space occupancy programming using excel macro: Office buildings in Iraq as a case study.

The local office buildings suffer from many administrative and organizational obstacles, in addition to the design obstacles, which led to the difficulty of internal movement for occupants and visitors alike, and thus intense density and crowding among them. The common workspaces represent the most crowded and dense spaces within the office buildings in the local reality. Three samples from local office buildings that were selected in Baghdad, Iraq, represent the densest buildings, especially in the transactional spaces that represent (common workspaces). Therefore, the purpose of this study is to ascertain the nature of the problem within those spaces by programming the space occupancy and measuring the variance rate between the occupancy density calculated within the standards/codes, and the occupancy density calculated from the count of the occupants observed via the survey, and automation of the extracted data using Excel macro software. The extracted variance rate is adopted as a recommendation and specific information to be used in the space programming phase of the current buildings (after conducting the evaluation process) and future buildings to achieve agreement between spatial density (space size) and social density (number of occupants and visitors). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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