Success notes Flashcards
Application for IPMS 1 (formerly GEA)
Planning
Application for IPMS 2 - Office (formerly GIA)
Costings
Application for IPMS 2 - Residential (formerly GIA)
Costings
Application for IPMS 3 – Office
(formerly NIA)
Agency and valuation
Application for IPMS 3A – Residential
Agency and valuation
Application for IPMS 3B – Residential
Agency and valuation
Application for IPMS 3C – Residential
Agency and valuation
Internal Dominant Face
The internal finish comprising more than 50% of the floor to
ceiling height for each IDF Wall Section.
If such does not occur, the Finished Surface is deemed to be the IDF
Common Facilities
Those parts of a Building providing shared facilities that
typically do not change over time, including for example,
circulation areas, stairs, escalators, lifts/elevators and motor
rooms, toilets, cleaners’ cupboards, plant rooms, fire refuge
areas, maintenance rooms and unallocated parking spaces.
Finished Surface
The wall surface directly above the horizontal wall-floor
junction, ignoring skirting boards, cable trunking, heating and
cooling units, and pipework.
IDF wall section
Each internal finish of a section of an External Wall, ignoring
the existence of any columns, that is either recessed from
or protrudes from its adjacent section.
Limited use area
Useable floor area
IPMS 1
measuring the area of a building including external walls on a floor by floor basis
IPMS 2
measuring the interior of an office to include all areas available for direct use, measured to the IDF of the wall on a floor by floor basis in component areas
IPMS 3
Used for measuring the occupation of floor areas in exclusive use using same assumptions as IPMS2
What are the differences between IPMS3 and NIA?
- Perimeter measurements are taken to the IDF
- All columns are included
- No exclusions for restrcited height of less than 1.5m
- Floors with multiple occupiers, the area is taken to the midpoint of the partition wall between tenancies
Internal Eves Height
The clear height between the floor and the lowest point on the underside of the roof
What are the commonly used scales
1:50 - Room plan
1:100 Building plan
1:1,250 Street/location plan
1:2,500 Location plan
1:500,000 Road map
1 acre = ? hectares
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