Capacity

The word ‘capacity’ refers to the maximum amount that can be produced, contained or accepted by a component or system.

In the construction industry, the word ‘capacity’ might refer to:

• Occupant capacity of a building or space.
• Heat capacity.
• Loadbearing capacity or bearing capacity.
• The maximum capacity of a product or system such as a road or rail network, heating system, battery, data storage system and so on.
• The capacity of an organisation such as a supplier to take on and complete a piece of work. This will be dependent on the availability of appropriate staff, equipment and other resources, other work that the organisation is undertaking and so on.

[edit] Related articles on Designing Buildings Wiki

• Bearing capacity.
• Crop-adjusted available water capacity.
• Heat capacity.
• Human resource management in construction.
• Loadbearing capacity
• Occupant capacity of a building or space.
• Resource leveling.
• Resource management.
• Scheduling construction activities.
• Storage.
• Time management of construction projects.
• Time management.
• Time-location chart.
• Transformation capacity.
• Volume.