Measurement

Question 1

Tell me about your understanding of RICS Property Measurement

Question 2

When would you use NIA as a measurement basis?

Question 3

When would you use GIA as a measurement basis?

Question 4

When would you use GEA as a measurement basis?

Question 4

What measurement basis would you use for a office property?

Question 5

Tell me what is included in NIA/GIA/GEA?

Question 6

What measurement basis would you use for retail property?

Question 6

What measurement basis would you use for industrial property?

Question 7

How does RICS Property Measurement differ from the old Code of Measuring Practice?

Question 8

Why is accuracy important when you measure a building?

Question 9

Tell me about a strength and weakness of a measuring technique you have used

Question 9

Tell me about how you use floor plans to facilitate measuring buildings?

Question 10

How do you calibrate a laser measure?

Question 11

Why do you take check measurements?

Question 12

When would you use a tape measure?

Question 13

When would you use a trundle wheel?

Question 13

What is a potential source of error when measuring?

Question 14

Why has IPMS been introduced?

Question 15

What is IPMS?

Question 16

Why has IPMS been introduced?

Question 17

Which IPMS standards are adopted by RICS?

Question 18

Explain your understanding of IPMS all buildings to me

Question 19

What is dual reporting and when would you use it?

Question 20

What IPMS bases are you aware of and when would you use each of these? How do they differ from there former code equivalents?

Question 21

What are limited use areas and how do you report these?

Question 22

What is the IDF?

Question 23

How has IPMS been incorporated into Property Measurement?

Question 24

What RICS guidance relates to the measurement of land?

Question 25

How do you deal with a situation where your client requests a different measurement standard to those contained within RICS guidance?

Question 26

How would you treat low or limited head height when measuring?

Question 27

How would you measure using a scaled plan?

Question 28

How would you adjust your comparable evidence it is was measured on a different basis to your subject property?

Question 29

What is a tolerance level when measuring?

Question 30

How could you take measurements from Google maps? How reliable are these?

Question 31

How do you ensure that you present your measurements clearly and coherently?

Question 32

In the industrial example in the absence of a unit plan how would you have drawn up a plan?

Question 33

Why did you take an average of the measurements you recorded?

Question 34

Why did you take an average of the measurements you recorded?

Question 35

Why did you exclude tenant’s structures in the measurements at the industrial unit?

Question 36

Was there an office within the industrial unit, how would you have measured this?

Question 37

What did you consider an acceptable range of difference in the measurements for the retail unit?

Question 38

Talk me through your measurement process in the retail example? What did you exclude?

Question 38

How did you ensure measurement accuracy around shop fit?