Debate: The Impact Of The Revised BOMA Standards on IWMS
In 1915, BOMA International published the first Standard Method of Floor Measurement for Office Buildings. It has been accepted and approved by the American National Standards Institute. Throughout the years, the standard has been revised to reflect the changing needs of the real estate market and the evolution of office building design.
BOMA International has introduced the latest version of the office standard.This version signifies a major revision, including a new name Office Buildings: Methods of Measurement and Calculating Rentable Area. The objective of the office standard is to provide a uniform basis for measuring rentable area in both exiting and new office buildings by taking a building-wide approach to floor area measurement. It provides a methodology for measuring both occupant space as well as the space that benefits all occupants.
Debate
Since Integrated Workplace Management Systems also support BOMA standards, those new standards will undoubtedly have an impact on IWMS. In today’s debate I would love to hear what you think about the impact of the Revise BOMA Standards on IWMS.
Please use the comment box below this post for your comments.
To me there isn’t much to debate, although responses to this will probably prove me wrong.
People will, and will not choose to accept the latest standard. Most who are using the BOMA standard are one of the two previous releases of the standard. Some folks will decide to adopt the new standard (which is actually 2) and some folks won’t.
This ultimately leaves the developers of IWMS with little choice other than incorporating 2010 Method A (Legacy Method and Method B (Single Load Factor), while also supporting the older versions.
I would agree with Bill that the impact on the IWMS world is that the systems will need to be able to run BOMA area calculations in numerous ways, in a building-specific manner, that can mix-and-match calculation methodologies within a given portfolio (e.g. buildings A & B use BOMA 1996, Building C uses Method A and the space on a multi-tenant floor in Building D uses Method B).
The impact of BOMA 2010 Method B on landlords is quite significant, but not the topic of this debate