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Concept: Remaining Area and Usable Area Calculations
There’s a key difference between how the Space Inventory application calculates Usable Area, and how the Space Planning system brings over Usable Area and represents that area in allocations.
Application | Usable Area |
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Space Inventory | Floor Usable Area = Internal Gross Area - sum of room area for rooms that have super-categories of VERT and SERV |
Space Planning |
The system gives an allocation (a group) an Allocation Type of “Usable Area – Owned” group area_manual = sum of room area for rooms that have a super-category of USBL |
For many floors, these values will be the same. However, there will be discrepancies if:
- any rooms on a floor contain a super-category of OTHR
- the floor is not drawn such that rooms take up all space in the internal gross area; that is to say, there is a non-zero “Remaining Area” in the Floors table (
fl.area_remain
)
There is difference between Space Inventory and Space Planning for Remaining Area:
Application | Remaining Area |
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Space Inventory |
Floor Remaining Area = Internal Gross Area - sum of room areas (this accounts for all area that is not drawn as rooms) |
Space Planning | Unavailable Remaining Area = Internal Gross Area - sum of groups of allocation types “Usable Area – Owned”, “Usable Area – Leased”, “Unavailable – Vertical Penetration”, and “Unavailable – Service Area” |
Again, the discrepancy between the two may be accounted for by any rooms that have a super-category of OTHR, or any rooms that are not categorized. The goal is to have the floor’s stack area add up to its Internal Gross Area, which it does.