BUILDING AREA MEASUREMENT

Facilities managers recognize that their buildings are part of a dynamic system that is continually changing, both in response to daily demands and to meet the evolving needs of the organizations they contain. Effective management of those buildings requires strong planning skills and the ability to adapt. Equally important, however, is the need for accurate information about the buildings and their assets.

Epps Corp ensures that all your decisions can be based on precise, reliable building measurement data. Using a laptop computer and a mobile trolley, leading CADD software, and sophisticated measuring devices, we provide accurate and comprehensive results, faster than previous inventory methods.

Once a building is measured, many standards of space classification may be applied. Commonly known standards include the BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) Standard for measuring floor area in Office and Industrial Buildings, IFMA - Standard Classification for Building Floor Area Measurements for Facility Management, and CSA - Area Measurement for Health Care Facilities.

Building area measurement data and standards enable administrators, financial officers and facility managers to:

• establish and report on departmental and overall building space efficiency
• compare departmental and building area planning factors to provincial or national metrics
• assign operating costs to departments or services
• establish rentable area in lease agreements.

Overall, sound building measurement provides the basis for accountability and cost justification, and is also a vital support to the management of facility records. Epps Corp combines precise area measurement data with database information in our innovative approach to resource management.