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Space Planning & Management / Space Inventory & Performance / Building Performance

Building Performance Report

Note: To ensure that the report uses your latest data, be sure to run the Building Performance/Update Area Totals action prior to running this report. If you do not first run this action, the report will present data from the last time that the action was run. Any changes in area boundaries or how an area is assigned will not be reflected.

The International Facility Management Association (IFMA) has established conventions for measuring building efficiency rates by comparing usable areas and rentable areas.

Higher efficiency rates indicate that you devote little space to hallways, rest rooms, mechanical closets, and other areas that cannot house employees. These rates can be important factors when analyzing space to lease and buildings to purchase, as well as indicate the efficient use of space you already occupy.

With the Building Performance Analysis process, you develop the data necessary to generate the Building Performance report, which documents two important ratios defined by IFMA:

• the Rentable/Usable ratio (which shows how well the building is designed)
• the Usable/Rentable ratio (or efficiency rate) which shows how well you are using the rentable space

Procedure:

1. In the Process Navigator, choose the Space Inventory & Performance/Building Performance/View Building Performance task.
2. Select a building from the left pane.
3. In the right panes, the system displays building performance data for the entire building, as well as the performance data for each floor. The building data is summed from the floor data.
4. Examine the Rentable/Usable and Usable/Rentable ratios for indication of the performance of each floor.

BOMA 2010 Standards

The BOMA 2010 Office Space Standard document redefines the calculations for certain key fields found in the Building Performance report, such as R/U ratio and Rentable Area, and introduces new calculations such as R/O Ratio and Occupant plus Allocated Area. The BOMA 2010 standard provides two methods -- Method A and Method B -- for calculating these values.

If you are following the BOMA 2010 conventions, use the BOMA 2010 Method A and BOMA 2010 Method B buttons to access alternate views of this report, which include these new fields and use the BOMA 2010 fields to calculate other fields. For more information, see Calculating Rentable Area According to BOMA 2010 Methods A and B.

See Also

Rentable Area (Concept)

Usable Area (Concept)

Mapping IFMA and BOMA Conventions to an ARCHIBUS Space Inventory