You are renovating telecommunication rooms that support an acute care facility that has 10,000 sq ft floors. The facility will be adding 15,000 sq ft to each of the floors. What is the MINIMUM…

3 m x 3 m (10 ft x 10 ft) is insufficient for 15,000 sq ft of acute care space; this dimension applies to smaller served areas and does not meet TIA-1179 requirements for this scale.

TIA-1179 and BICSI TDMM healthcare guidelines define minimum TR dimensions for acute care facilities based on the served floor area. For an incremental addition of 15,000 sq ft in an acute care setting, the minimum required additional TR footprint is 3.5 m x 4.3 m (11.5 ft x 14 ft). This sizing accounts for the higher density of active equipment, redundancy requirements, and additional pathway terminations specific to acute care environments.

3.0 m x 4.5 m (10 ft x 15 ft) is close in area but does not match the specific dimensional requirements defined in TIA-1179 for this acute care floor area increment.

6 m x 6 m (20 ft x 20 ft) far exceeds the minimum requirement and would be wasteful; it is not the minimum additional space specified for a 15,000 sq ft acute care expansion.