A surveyor on behalf of the investor When does a surveyor cover the general contractor? Many surveyors will probably think I have gone crazy writing an article denigrating my own industry. I have heard many stories when working for international investors for years about geodesists lowering the costs of commissions. As a result, they deliver…
Geodetic Rent-Roll Managing lease spaces without mistakes After 12 years of experience and measuring 5 million sq.m of commercial buildings areas, the Geodetic company in consultation with commercial property owners has created a tool that eliminates mistakes in managing areas for lease purposes. What is managing with the Geodetic Rent-Roll (GRR) like? How much information…
Add-on factor, Load Factor A, R/U Ratio, R/O Ratio The common floor area and the building area in office buildings are currently assigned to individual lease areas of the tenants proportionally to the area they’re leasing. How it’s done, how it’s calculated and what’s most important, which norms are appropriate for such situations. Add-on factor…
Rules of measurement, MF-0 – surfaces that aren’t the subject of the lease, MF-G – surfaces that are the subject of the lease, modifications of GIF Standard The GIF Standard is the standard of area measurement adored by German investors. In 2017, due to the growing field of investment of German companies in…
Journal of The Geodetic 2017 download for free on-line Dowlnoad journal Dear Readers, the publication which you’re holding in your hands was created due to your expectations, which we would like which we would like to comply. During our visits in your offices we noticed, that many of you had printed some blog articles published…
Find out how to apply for and finally get a higher building height in building and plot development terms and conditions (Pol.: WZ – warunki zabudowy) The height of a newly designed building is one of the most important parameters of the building’s project and therefore the cost-effectiveness of the investment. Have you ever wondered…
The subject of the issue in the context of building records and property tax In the years 2015-2017 I had several commissions to verify whether the building is a building (in Polish law it is called “budynek”) or non-building structure (in Polish law it is called” budowla”). A strange commission, but if you don’t know…
The shopping center area measurement norm and its owner’s approach When I analyzed my portfolio and the way of measuring lease area in Polish shopping centers, I found that there are two approaches – “net worth” and “gross worth”. These terms were defined individually by the owners of retail properties. Every net and gross measurement…
An architect or a geodesist – who would reflect a building better? To begin with, it’s good to say what exactly architectural/building/architectural-building inventories are and what they consist of. To give you a mental image, paper (digital) documentation of an existing building or its parts needs to be done the way the documentation (floor plan)…
Building area – in legislation, in practice, in court judgments and like an absurd It is widely known that investors, and what follows architects, would rather use a method of calculating the building area that doesn’t include all kinds of bay windows, stairs or other elements in the said area. They’d like the m2 of…