Changing a facility's use.
Office to restaurant, warehouse to gym, retail to medical. A change of use changes the load, and the AHJ will ask for the numbers.
The old tenant's meter cannot vouch for the new tenant's load.
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Change-of-occupancy review asks one thing: can the existing service and feeders carry the new use.
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The answer is built in two halves. What the facility draws today, established by measurement, and the new occupancy's equipment added per its own article.
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Measuring the half that is staying is where the headroom is. An envelope calculation gives that away, and a restaurant fit-out rarely has room to spare.
The right study for the change of use.
Measure it as it runs today
30 days on the service and the feeders that are staying. That record carries the existing half, and the new equipment is added on top of it.
Twelve months, if you have them
Where the account holds a year of demand data and the service is not being re-fed, the records do the same job in 3 days.