Question about square footage and rooms

[w1ca1354267]

I have a room that is a square and within the room I have a closet that is a rectangle. Revit calculated the SF for each separately. Can Revit provide me with the dimensions it used to calculate the footage? Does anyone know what the formula is?

[cliff collins]

If I understand the question correctly---

You can make the walls of the interior closet non room bounding, and then the area will report the entire room.

Highlight the walls, and under Properties uncheck Room Bounding.

[w1ca1354267]

So when I report the entire room, are you saying I should not report the Sq Footage of the closet? Is that the way architechs do it?

[cliff collins]

If you need the Area for the entire Room, including the space taken by the closet, yes. It depends on what the Area information is being used for. The Room will calculate the perimeter of anything that defines its boundaries, as mentioned above.

If you want the Area of the floor space BENEATH the walls, (i.e. not including portions where walls define the Room boundaries), then use an Area Plan. You can begin with Gross Building Area, and then adjust the Area Boundary lines specifically to where you need them to report the square footage. For example, in your Room with a closet inside it, you could get the whole Floor Area by using an Area Plan, and draw the boundaries around the perimeter of the inside face of the walls. (As mentioned earlier, you could also use a Floor for the same purpose, and Schedule it.)

Or, as stated earlier--make the closet walls non-room bounding. Then the Room will report the Area bounded by only the perimeter walls. Use a Room Schedule to show the Area on a Sheet. Hope this helps.

[MikeJarosz]

Is that the way architechs do it?

The floor area of a project is a sensitive issue. There are a number of ways to report it. There are standards agencies like BOMA and ANSI that have developed standard methods for measuring buildings. Here in New York City, we have our own standard REBNY (=real estate board New York). The square feet of rented space in an NYC office building is always greater than the actual space occupied. The rationale is that a tenant uses the boiler room, the toilet down the hall, the lobby, the elevators. So all the building common space is added up and pro-rated to the tenants. There are architects in NY that specialize in measuring buildings and calculating rentable area both for landlords and tenants. Boring work, but it pays.........

[bbeck]

The floor area of a project is a sensitive issue. There are a number of ways to report it. There are standards agencies like BOMA and ANSI that have developed standard methods for measuring buildings. Here in New York City, we have our own standard REBNY (=real estate board New York). The square feet of rented space in an NYC office building is always greater than the actual space occupied. The rationale is that a tenant uses the boiler room, the toilet down the hall, the lobby, the elevators. So all the building common space is added up and pro-rated to the tenants. There are architects in NY that specialize in measuring buildings and calculating rentable area both for landlords and tenants. Boring work, but it pays.........

Like Mike states above in his reply. It really depends on whom the information is intended for and what they plan on doing with it. Revit will allow you to represent it in any fashion.