Updated November 7, 2011
SFU Office Space Guidelines
The areas noted below are offered as a guide for preliminary programming of office space for space use on campus.
Actual plans vary due to specific functional needs of each project and space utilization.
Space
Individual office
Area
240 SF
Users
Dean
Faculty
Individual office
for each full time
faculty member
110 SF
Professors, Associate and Assistant
professors, lecturer and instructors
Non-faculty
Individual office
110 SF
Sessional instructors, Faculty associate
Graduate students
Shared office
40 SF per FTE graduate
All on campus graduate students requiring
office space for research or TA duties
Non-graduate
student teaching
staff
Shared office
40 SF per 8 base units of
course load
External TAs, undergraduate TAs,
Sessional instructors, all other nongraduate TAs
Non-graduate,
non-teaching
research staff
Shared office
90 SF per FTE
Post-doctoral Fellows, Research associates
Non-graduate,
non-teaching
research staff
Shared office
40 SF per FTE
Research assistants/technicians
Administrative
and Technical
Support
Shared
90 SF
Secretarial/clerical staff
Administrative
Technical staff
Shared office
90 SF per FTE
Administrative
Office support
Varies
0-5 supported staff
6-10
11-20
21-30
Administrative
support space
Varies
20 SF per FTE faculty (200
SF min.)
Dean
150 SF
200 SF
250 SF
300 SF
Includes reception, machine, storage, file
space
Meeting/resource library
Note: BC Ministry Space Standards (BCSS) describe space programs by functional components and should be referred to
in developing building space requirements for capital projects.
http://www.aved.gov.bc.ca/cppm/space.htm#universities