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AEC Technology Glossary

Planning & Development

What is Stacking Plan?

A stacking plan is a floor-by-floor diagram of how departments, tenants, or functions distribute vertically through a building. Where a test fit answers one floor, a stack answers the whole building: who goes where, and how much space each group gets.

In practice

Corporate real estate teams use stacking studies for consolidations and moves; developers use them to plan multi-tenant leasing. Space-planning platforms generate and compare stacks from program data.

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