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Building Measurement Glossary
- Actual Load Factor
- Amenity Areas
- Ancillary Areas
- ANSI/BOMA Z65.1
- ANSI/BOMA Z65.2
- ANSI/BOMA Z65.3
- ANSI/BOMA Z65.4
- ANSI/BOMA Z65.5
- ANSI/BOMA Z65.6
- Area Analysis
- As-Built
- AutoCAD
- Balcony
- Base Building
- Base Building Circulation
- Base Building Walls
- Basic Rentable Area
- Blueprint Digitization
- BOMA
- BOMA Gross Areas Standard
- BOMA Industrial Standard
- BOMA Mixed-Use Standard
- BOMA Multi-Unit Residential Standard
- BOMA Multifamily and Hospitality Standard
- BOMA Office Standard
- BOMA Retail Standard
- BOMA Standard
- Boundary Area
- Boundary Conditions
- Building Allocation Ratio
- Building Amenity Area
- Building Core
- Building Enclosure
- Building Rentable Area
- Building Service Area
- Building Service Areas
- Building Voids
- CAD Software
- Capped Load Factor
- Circulation
- Circulation Areas
- Clear Height
- Common Area
- Common Area Maintenance (CAM)
- Concourse
- Connector
- Connectors
- Construction Area
- Corridor
- Covered Gallery
- Crossover Floor
- Data Center
- Demising Wall
- Digital Twin
- Dominant Portion
- Door Setbacks
- Drip Line
- Elevator Lobby
- Enclosed Living Areas
- Enclosed Retail Floor
- Enhanced Global Summary of Areas
- Established Lease Line
- Exclusive Use
- Exterior Door Setback
- Finished Rooftop Terrace
- Finished Surface
- Floor Allocation
- Floor Allocation Ratio
- Floor Amenity Area
- Floor Rentable Area
- Floor Service Area
- Full Floor Equivalent Factor
- Fully Enclosed
- Generic Global Summary of Areas
- Global Summary of Areas
- Global Summary of Mixed-Use Areas
- Governing Documents
- Gross Building Area
- Gross Leasable Area (GLA)
- Gross Rentable Area
- Horizontal Circulation Areas
- Industrial Standard
- Input Values
- Inside Finished Surface
- Inside Net Method
- Inter-Allocated Areas
- Inter-Building Areas
- Interior Door Setback
- Interior Gross Area
- Interstitial Space
- IPMS
- Landlord Controlled
- Lease Area
- Lease Line
- Level (or Floor)
- LiDAR
- Limited Occupant Area
- Living Areas
- Living Unit Enclosure
- Living Units
- Load Factor
- Loading Dock
- Lobby
- Major Vertical Penetrations
- Measure Line
- Mechanical Room
- Method A
- Method B
- Mezzanine
- Mixed-Use Amenity Areas
- Mixed-Use Areas
- Mixed-Use Boundary Area
- Mixed-Use Common Areas
- Mixed-Use Components
- Mixed-Use Load Factor
- Mixed-Use Parking Area
- Mixed-Use Property
- Mixed-Use Service Areas
- Mixed-Use Vertical Service and Circulation Areas
- Multi-Building Set
- Multi-Occupant Corridor
- Multi-Occupant Floor
- Multi-Tenant Shaft
- Net Area
- Net Method
- Net Rentable Area
- Non-Living Areas
- Non-Structural Protrusions
- Occupant Area
- Occupant Circulation Areas
- Occupant Enclosure
- Occupant Shaft
- Occupant Void
- Office Standard
- Openings to Floor Below
- Outside Finished Surface
- Parking Area
- Partial Boundary Area
- Partial Enclosure
- Partially Enclosed
- Partition
- Penthouse
- Perimeter
- Primary Circulation
- Property Limit
- Property Line
- Property Management
- Proportionate Share
- Public Area
- Public Pedestrian Thoroughfare
- Reallocated Rentable Areas
- Recessed Entry
- Rentable Area
- Rentable Exclusions
- Residential Standard
- Restricted Headroom
- Restroom
- Retail Activities
- Retail Experience
- Retail Space
- Retail Standard
- Roof
- Separately Disclosed
- Service and Public Areas
- Service Area
- Shaft
- Sidelights
- Single-Tenant Floor
- Site Plan
- Space Classifications
- Space ID
- Space Planning
- Special Conditions
- Square Footage
- Stairwell
- Storage Area
- Structural Element
- Suite
- Survey
- Tenant
- Tenant Area
- Term
- Total Area
- Total Rentable Area
- Unenclosed Area
- Unenclosed Living Areas
- Unenclosed Occupant Amenity Areas
- Unenclosed Occupant Circulation
- Unenclosed Occupant Service Areas
- Unenclosed Storage Areas
- Unenclosed Tenant Areas
- Unenclosed Vertical Circulation
- Unprotected Exterior Opening
- Usable Area
- Vault Space
- Vertical Circulation Areas
- Vertical Penetration
- Vertical Service Areas
- Virtual Boundary
- Virtual Floor
- Void
- Wall Priority
- Wall Thickness