Gross Floor Area Vs Gross Building Area

Gross floor area is the total floor area contained within the building measured to the external face of the external walls.

Gross floor area vs gross building area.

Property descriptions on the multiple listing service a tax roll or in an appraiser s evaluation include square footage. Then there s the fact that there is some ambiguity in how to measure certain things. First of all there are different definitions of the area of a building and they are used for different purposes. Gross living area gla differs from the gross building area gba.

The actual occupied area not including unoccupied accessory areas such as corridors stairways toilet. The internal face for use with the gross internal area means the brick block work or plaster coat applied to the brick block work not the surface of internal linings installed by the occupier. Fairly straight forward but lets start with defining what the internal face is. Please come back again later.

The gross leasable area is the total area designed for exclusive use by a commercial tenant plus common areas elevators common bathrooms stairwells and other parts of the building the tenant doesn t actually occupy. Calculating building size gla vs gba. The ways of defining floor area depend on what factors of the building should or should not be included such as external walls internal walls corridors lift shafts stairs etc. Our site is temporarily disabled.

Posted february 6th 2018 filed under blog. Valuation management group s quality assurance reviewers routinely review a variety of appraisal reports covering nearly every property type imaginable.