What kinds of errors can lead to incorrect building area measurements and leased areas?
• Misunderstandings based upon inadequate communication or documentation (what floor, what space plan version etc.), • Inadequate understanding of the standard being applied to measure space, • Poor quality control procedures, especially in rush situations common in leasing, • Erroneous inclusion or omission of space measured under a standard, • Errors in classification of space measured under a standard, • Errors in locating the boundary line of a space (dominant surface, side of wall), • Errors cause by inaccurate plans (drawn wrong or not to scale), • Dimensional errors (nonsensical geometry), • Calculation errors in computing raw areas, • Calculation errors in allocation of common areas (applying R/U factors), • Inadequate systems of accounting for square footage over time.
