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AEC Technology Glossary

Planning & Development

What is Space Planning?

Space planning is the discipline of arranging program — rooms, workstations, circulation, support spaces — within a building to meet functional requirements, codes, and experience goals. It spans quick test fits through detailed furniture layouts.

In practice

Workplace teams plan against utilization data and hybrid-work policies; AI layout tools generate options against program rules; and occupancy analytics close the loop by measuring whether the plan works in use.

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