by Rebecca Walker — July 23, 2010—The Building Owners and Managers Association (BOMA) International has released Retail Buildings: Standard Methods of Measurement (ANSI/BOMA Z65.5-2010), a measurement standard that provides a uniform methodology for computing, communicating and comparing the measurement of shopping centers, providing an unequivocal direct measure of the physical size of the floor area of a retail building.
The standard is designed to serve the interests of building owners, managers and occupants as well as facility managers, brokers, appraisers, assessors, lenders, insurers, developers, construction and design professionals and others.
It offers three measurement methods:
Construction gross area, which includes the area defined as exterior gross area, as well as other areas that have a structural floor or are covered by a roof or canopy that are typically enclosed but within the building perimeter;
Exterior gross area, which is the total of all the enclosed floor areas of all floors of a building contained within their measure lines; and
Gross leasable area, which is the total enclosed floor area designed for the exclusive use of an occupant, including any basements, mezzanines or upper floors.
The standard also features 16 illustrations, worksheets and 48 definitions of measurement terms, hyperlinked in a downloadable PDF format. For more information or to order, see the Web site.
