Measurement L2 Flashcards
How do you callorbrate your measurement device?
Measure a known distance 3/4 times
used for offices and residential
What Professional Statement did the RICS release to incorporate the International Property Measurement Standards?
RICS Property Measurment 2018
The bases of measurement contained with the Code of Measuring Practice, 6th edition applies to all building classes except offices and residential buildings.
What was the aim of RICS Property Measurement, 2018?
Establish consistencies in property measurement to be adopted by governments and industry on a global basis
Which IPMS measuring practices were adopted in RICS Property Measurement, 2018?
Offices and residential
The bases of measurement contained with the Code of Measuring Practice, 6th edition applies to all building classes except offices and residential buildings.
What RICS guidance is there for all buildings except office and residential measurement?
RICS Code of Measuring Practice (6th Edition) 2015
The bases of measurement contained with the Code of Measuring Practice, 6th edition applies to all building classes except offices and residential buildings.
What document should you refer to when measuring retail and industrial property?
RICS Code of Measuring Practice 2015
What are RICS members encouraged to do until IPMS becomes embedded into market practice?
Report on a dual basis
When are RICS planning on implementing IPMS: Industrial Buildings 2018 and IPMS: Retail Buildings 2019?
have they even given a date yet?
No date given yet
What are the general principles of RICS Property Measurement, 2018?
- Advise clients of the benefits of using IMPS
- Document the reason for not using IMPS
- Must provide a date when the measurements are undertaken
- State the measuring methodology adopted
- Provide the reference and scale of any plans used
- State the conversion factor from metric / imperial and any rounding
- Measurements and calculations must be clearly documented
What is the difference between the VOA Code of Measuring Practice and RICS Code of Measuring Practice?
VOA adopts 1 main difference regarding GIA, the voa excludes area with head room of less than 1.5 in GIA
What is NIA?
Most like IPMS 3 Offices & Resi
Useable area within a building measured to the internal perimeter wall
What does NIA include and exclude?
INCLUDES: Atria, area occupied by skirting, area, perimeter trunking
EXCLUDE: Server Room, Plant room, Entrance halls, common areas, perminet lobbies, toliets, lift shaft, stairwells, circulation space, interal structural walls. head room of less than 1.5m
What are the applications for NIA?
Retail, Office, Property Management, Service charge
What is GIA?
Most like IPMS 2 - Office and Resi
The area of a building measured to the internal perimeter wall
What is included and excluded from GIA?
INCLUDES: area occupied by interal walls and paritions, columns, stairwells, lifts, internal open sided balconies, mezzanie with perminent access, plant room, toliets and area with a head room of less than 1.5m execpt in rating
EXCLUDES: Covered ways, fire escapes, canopy, fuel stores, external open sided balcony
What are the applications for GIA?
Construction cost estimates, industrial sector, department stores, supermarkets, New homes, USED in healthcare buidlings in rating
What is GEA?
Most like IMPS 1 for Office and resi
Area of buiding measured externally
What does GEA include and exclude?
INCLUDES: perimeter wall thickness, external projections, areas with headroom of less than 1.5m
EXLUDES: External opensided balconies, covered ways, fire escapes, roof teraces, fuel stores
What are the applications for GEA?
Town Planning, building cost estimates
For what types of property is adoption of IPMS mandatory?
unles what?
When reporting on office and residential, unless the client provides a written instruction to use an alternative
When is IPMS 1 - Offices used? What method of measurement does it most closely correspond to?
GEA
Planning or building cost purposes
When is IPMS 2 - Offices used? What method of measurement does it most closely correspond to?
GIA
Agency, Property Management and valuation purposes
When is IPMS 3 - Offices used? What method of measurement does it most closely correspond to?
NIA
Agency and valuation purposes
What are the THREE IPMS standards for measuring residential buildings?
- IPMS 1 - Residential: External
- IPMS 2 - Residential (Internal): Internal area of the building
- IMPS 3 - Residential (Occupier): the occupation of the building on an exclusive basis to an occupier (3 sections A B & C)
What is the definition of the Internal Dominant Face?
Inside finished surface comprising more than 50% of the floor to ceiling height
What are the differences between IPMS 3 and NIA?
- Perimeter measurements are taken to the ‘Internal Dominant Face’ rather than internal perimeter wall
- No exclusions for restricted height of less than 1.5m
- All columns are included
- Area occupied by the reveals of a window when measured and assessed as the IDF are included
- On floors with multiple occupants, the area is taken to the midpoint of the partition wall between tenancies
- Covered galleries and balconies for the exclusive use of one tenant are included and stated separately
On what basis would you measure ancillary office space contained within a warehouse
If it is ancillary then the basis is GIA inline with the industrial sector
When measuring a shop unit that is fitted out with full height partitioning by the tenant, what are some of the methods you can use to estimate the actual built width of the shop?
Remove a ceiling tile
Try and get behind the partitioning
Inspect the basement or first floor to see actual built width
Scale from floor plans (having undertaken some on site check measurements)
What is eaves height?
The clear height between the floor and the lowest point on the underside of the roof
What is the site depth?
The measurement from the front to rear boundaries
What is the shop depth?
The measurement from the notional window display to the rear of the retail area, including the thickness of the display window
What is the built depth?
The maximum external measurement from the front to rear walls
What is the gross frontage for a shop?
The overall external measurement in a straight line across the front of the building from the outside of the external wall or the centre line of the party walls
What is the net frontage for a shop?
The overall frontage of the shop line measured between the internal face of the external walls
hat could be used to measure the boundaries whilst on site?
trundle wheel
What is a commonly used scale for a building plan?
1:100
What is a commonly used scale for a street plan?
1:1250
location plan
1:2500
