1、Designation:E1836/E1836M091An American National StandardStandard Practice forBuilding Floor Area Measurements for Facility Management1This standard is issued under the fixed designation E1836/E1836M;the number immediately following the designation indicates the yearof original adoption or,in the cas
2、e of revision,the year of last revision.A number in parentheses indicates the year of last reapproval.A superscript epsilon()indicates an editorial change since the last revision or reapproval.1NOTEUnits information and designation was corrected editorially in April 2009.1.Scope1.1 This practice pro
3、vides a definitive procedure for mea-suring and classifying floor area in buildings for use in facilitymanagement,specifying occupant requirements,spaceplanning,and for strategic facility planning.1.2 This practice specifies the sequence in which to measurefloor area.1.3 This practice is applicable
4、to owned,rented,and leasedbuildings.1.4 Use Annex A1 to measure floor area in office facilities.The measurement practice in Annex A1 may also be suitablefor use in other functional types of building which includeoffices,such as research,laboratory,or manufacturing build-ings and building-related fac
5、ilities.1.5 The practice in AnnexA1 is not intended for use in leasenegotiations with owners of commercial office buildings orrelated properties.For that purpose,refer to the AmericanNational Standard published by the American National Stan-dardsInstituteunderthedesignationANSI/BOMAZ65.11996 and com
6、monly known as the ANSI-BOMA stan-dard.1.6 This practice is not intended for and not suitable for usefor regulatory purposes,fire hazard assessment,and fire riskassessment.1.7 This practice was developed for use within NorthAmerica and includes some rules comparable to ISO 9836Performance Standards
7、in BuildingDefinition and Calcula-tion of Area and Space Indicators.1.8 The values stated in either SI units or inch-pound unitsare to be regarded separately as standard.The values stated ineach system may not be exact equivalents;therefore,eachsystem shall be used independently of the other.Combini
8、ngvalues from the two systems may result in non-conformancewith the standard.1.9 This standard does not purport to address all of thesafety concerns,if any,associated with its use.It is theresponsibility of the user of this standard to establish appro-priate safety and health practices and determine
9、 the applica-bility of regulatory limitations prior to use.2.Referenced Documents2.1 ASTM Standards:2E631 Terminology of Building ConstructionsE2619/E2619M Practice for Measuring and CalculatingBuilding Loss Features That Take Up Floor Area inBuildings2.2 ANSI Standard:3ANSI/BOMA Z65.11996 Standard
10、Method for MeasuringFloor Area in Office Buildings2.3 ISO Standards:4ISO 9836 Performance Standards in BuildingDefinitionand Calculation of Area and Space Indicators3.Terminology53.1 Definitions:3.1.1 floor,nin a building,supporting structure(generallyhorizontal)and constituting the bottom level of
11、each story.E63161This practice is under the jurisdiction of ASTM Committee E06 on Perfor-mance of Buildings and is the direct responsibility of Subcommittee E06.25 onWhole Buildings and Facilities.Current edition approved April 1,2009.Published October 2009.Originallyapproved in 1996.Last previous e
12、dition approved in 2008 as E1836 08.DOI:10.1520/E1836_E1836M-09E01.2For referenced ASTM standards,visit the ASTM website,www.astm.org,orcontact ASTM Customer Service at serviceastm.org.For Annual Book of ASTMStandards volume information,refer to the standards Document Summary page onthe ASTM website
13、.3Available from American National Standards Institute(ANSI),25 W.43rd St.,4th Floor,New York,NY 10036,http:/www.ansi.org.4Available from International Organization for Standardization(ISO),1,ch.dela Voie-Creuse,Case postale 56,CH-1211,Geneva 20,Switzerland,http:/www.iso.ch.5Certain definitions of t
14、erms in this practice were agreed in 2007 by a WorkingGroup established jointly by the Building Owners and Managers Association(BOMA)International and the International Facility Management Association(IFMA).Certain terms were derived from referenced ASTM standards or fromreferenced ANSI standard,or
15、from published IFMA documents.Ownership ofcopyright to specific terms is indicated by footnotes.Certain terms are quoted fromother ASTM standards,in which case the ASTM source is identified at the end ofthe definition.6Information such as this,inserted at the end of a definition,gives the numberof a
16、 standard from which this definition was quoted or derived.If a number followsa dash at the end of this information,it indicates the year of approval of the standard.Copyright ASTM International,100 Barr Harbor Drive,PO Box C700,West Conshohocken,PA 19428-2959.United States1 3.1.2 For standard definitions of additional terms applicableto this practice,see Terminology E631.3.2 Definitions of Terms Specific to This Standard:3.2.1 amenity area,nportion of a building that provides aconvenience to an
