what is the typical office depth for highrise office?

cmrhm · #1 Posted **Jan 12, 2011, 3:45 PM**

Anyone knows the typical office depth for highrise office in US? Is it around 40'? Is this number getting smaller in Europe?

This is for a competition. Thanks for the help.

emathias · #2 Posted **Jan 12, 2011, 4:55 PM**

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Originally Posted by cmrhm

Anyone knows the typical office depth for highrise office in US? Is it around 40'? Is this number getting smaller in Europe?

This is for a competition. Thanks for the help.

What do you mean by "office depth"? What exactly are you measuring with that?

mhays · #3 Posted **Jan 12, 2011, 5:29 PM**

Typically it means core to window.

There's no such thing as typical. Also, numbers tend to be different from one axis to the next (for example e-w vs. n-s). Depths of 40' are common.

Office towers have floorplates often in the 10,000 to 20,000 sf range, but towers and lowrises can go to multiples of that, or be much narrower.

Higher end offices often try to have workers closer to natural light. Brokerages and low-end offices (call centers etc.) often want very large floorplates, and very large core-window depths.