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Forum Categories BOMA 1996 - Office Buildings Question

Basements

Julieta Boy: LBR&A; April 26, 2016

I have a question regarding a rentable space in a basement for a restaurant, the manual said that for measuring the floor rentable area "No deduction shall be made for columns and projections necessary to the building". Does the perimeter structural walls shall be consider? which will be the criteria for this.
Thanks for your help.

David Fingret: Extreme Measures Inc.; June 10, 2016

BOMA 1996 measures the exterior walls to the vertically dominant surface on the interior side.