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Measurement (Level 2) Flashcards

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What is the RICS Guidance?

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  • RICS Professional Statement: Property Measurement 2nd edition (Incorporating International Property Measurement Standards) – effective from May 2018.
  • RICS Guidance Note: Code of Measuring Practice 2015
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What are the requirements of RICS Property Measurement 2018?

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  • Provide a date when the measurements are undertaken
  • State the measuring methodology adopted
  • Provide the reference and scale of any plans used.
  • Conversion factor (metric/imperial) and any rounding.
  • Measurement and calculations must be clearly documented
  • RICS member responsible.
  • IPMS IS MANDATORY FOR OFFICE AND RESIDENTIAL (unless Client requests departure).
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What is IPMS 1, 2 and 3 used for?

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1 - Offices - (Similar to GEA) - for planning and build cost purposes
2 - Offices - (Similar to GIA) - Agency and Valuation
3 - Offices - (Similar to NIA) - Agency and valuation purposes

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When would you use IMPS 3?

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  • Used to measure the occupation of floor areas in exclusive use.
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What’s excluded in IMPS 3?

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  • shared and common facilities
  • lifts, stairs and motor rooms
  • WC’s , cleaners cupboards, plant room
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What are the main differences between IMPS 3 and NIA?

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IPMS 3 - Perimeter measurements taken to Internal Dominant Face
- No exclusion for restricted height of less than 1.5m
- All columns are included
- Multiple occupation - measurement taken to midpoint of the partition wall.
- Covered galleries and balconies in exclusive use are included but stated separately.

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What is the RICS Code of Measuring Practice 2015?

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  • Best practice for all measurement exercises excluding offices and residential properties.
    (Includes GIA, GEA and NIA guidance)
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When would you use GIA?
What is included and excluded?

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  • Industrial and Retail Warehouses

Includes - WCs, Lifts, Columns, mezzanines with permanent access, loading bays.

Excludes - canopies, fire escapes, and covered ways.

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When would you use NIA?
What is included and excluded?

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Retail spaces.

Includes - kitchen, staff room

Excludes - WCs. Stairwells, Plant and lift rooms, Permanent Circulation areas, Areas of less than 1.5 metres.

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How do you ensure accuracy of measurements?

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  • Ensure calibrated laser measurer
  • Check measurements and multiple measures throughout.
  • Support measurement with computer-generated drawings and verify these on site.
  • State a degree of tolerance.
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What is a common scale used for Location Plans?

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1:2500

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What is a common scale used for Building Plans?

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1:100

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How would you measure land?

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  • Use LandApp or Trundle Wheel on Site
  • Check boundaries on site with land reg plan.
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What is the purpose of zoning for retail premises?

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  • valuation metric that standardises the comparison of retail spaces by converting their entire area into an equivalent area as if it were all prime Zone A space
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What are the main considerations for measuring different sectors?

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  • Office - IMPS 3
  • Retail - NIA
  • Industrial - GIA

Consideration include basis of measurement, what is including and excluded.

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What is the difference between the code of measuring practice and RICS Property Measurement?

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  • Code of Measuring Practice is not a mandatory requirement.
  • Property Measurement 2nd Edition is mandatory.

Code - Relates to GIA, GEA, NIA or all buildings excluding Office and Residential which are covered by IMPS3.

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What is IPMS All Buildings?

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IPMS All Buildings is applicable to all types of Buildings independent of their use or their occupation.

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What is the internal dominant face?

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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.

19
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What is affected by the frontage to depth ratio?

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The ITZA zoning.

20
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What is masking?

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Area of the shop that is less visible or not visible from the entrance.
Includes areas hidden by lift shafts and stairs.

21
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What are the principal features in a retail unit that become important in measuring and translating this into a zoned analysis?

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  • Frontage width
  • Any masked areas
  • Changes in floor level
  • Structural Walls
  • Depth and Width of Unit
  • Return Frontage
  • Basement, 1st floor etc

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