partial occupancy

partial occupancy

Occupancy by the owner of a portion of a project prior to final completion.
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Its lease with the Fund was express that the building was incomplete, but ready for partial occupancy.
Allen anticipates it will start to fill up over the fall as partial occupancy starts in October.
The building systems' demolition and installation was carefully orchestrated to allow the partial occupancy (Figure 3).
Whether you have a lobby, atrium, or areas with only partial occupancy, it doesn't always make sense to heat every corner of these high volume, low density spaces.
Thus, for calculating energy consumption and for designing control strategies, the rate of evaporation at partial occupancy also needs to be calculated.
Available for full or partial occupancy in 2010, this office space represents one of the largest blocks of contiguous space available downtown and affords tenants a full building opportunity, including corporate signage.
Castle Morpeth Council chief executive Ken Dunbar said: "We are already discussing a local council tax discount scheme which will extend the period of discount and will also be considering discounts for partial occupancy."
Partial occupancy is expected in mid-October with final completion in late December 2004 or early January 2005.
So, we got partial occupancy so that some functions could take place while the building was being completed.