Cost model: Further education | Features

How a college floor plan should be divided up
Component	Definition	% of gross internal area
Teaching/learning	Excludes admin, social, catering, communal, storage and balance space	50%
Other	All usable space excluding teaching and learning space. Typically includes rooms for admin, social, catering, communal, storage and assembly rooms	20%
Balance	“Non-usable” space typically includes corridors, stairwells, lifts, plant rooms and space occupied by internal walls and services	30%
Atriums	Fully enclosed, usually glass-covered spaces that are a minimum of double-floor height and of sufficient width to be used as multi-functional space	10%
Source: Management of Floorspace, LSC 2007