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Answers to 26 Key Questions about the BOMA Standard
BOMA published Answers to 26 Key Questions about the ANSI/BOMA Standard of Measuring Floor Area in Office Buildings as guidance in interpreting the BOMA Standard. It is not part of the ANSI/BOMA Standard, but is an indispensible companion to it. The entire text is available on the BOMA website.
Of the 26 questions, 16 relate to the classification of space, 5 address space class boundary issues,2 deal with calculations and 3 are of a general nature. Following is a brief index of the issues:
- The "Alternate Method" for calculating rentable area
- Private stairways, dumb waiters, etc.
- Measurement of major vertical penetrations
- Bottoms of elevators, stairways
- Jogs in boundary of gross measured area at columns
- Store area and major vertical penetrations
- Areas of refuge in major vertical penetrations
- Store area, building line and multiple exposures and levels
- Building set-backs at street level
- Measured space to be fully enclosed
- Corridor extensions in usable area
- Mechanical rooms in building common area, penthouses
- Below-grade floor areas
- Storage areas
- Parking areas
- Changes in R/U ratios
- Walls between building common area and tenant spaces
- Building common area as floor usable area
- Building common area as amenity vs income-producing
- Common areas shared by multiple buildings
- Atrium areas
- Mezzanine areas
- Single tenant floors and floor common areas (restrooms).
- Single tenant buildings and use of gross area for leasing
- Applicability of ANSI Z65.1 to non-office areas
- Certification of area calculations
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