Hi James,

In most cases we allocate such offices as Tenant Area. If a building operating rooms/office is subgrade or unlikely to be convertible to Tenant Area, then we would usually allocate it as Building Service Area.

If you do need to allocate a management office as a common area, then you have some options. If the office is on a Tenanted Floor and it's being allocated to multiple buildings across a complex then the office could be designated as a Inter-Allocated Amenity Area. You should use "Amenity Area" rather than "Service Area" because an Amenity Area will take a proportionate share of Floor Service Areas, whereas a Service Area will not. This way, other tenants on the same Floor as the management office will not be unfairly paying for a larger share of the Floor Service Areas. Conversely, if the management office is unlikely to be convertible to Tenant Area and it serves an office complex, we would designate it as an Inter-Allocated Service Area.

Generally, we would include all portions of the office in question in a single Space Classification; however, the standard doesn't prevent you from breaking it down needed.

It should be noted that the entire complex will need to be measured in order to apply Inter-Allocated Areas.

I hope this helps.

Thanks,
David