Measurement (Level 2)

Question 1

What guides and governs the practice of measurement? Which edition?

Question 2

Which documents are contained within RICS Property Measurement?

Question 3

What was the case law that prompted production of the 6th edition of the Code?

Question 4

What types of property must be measured using IPMS at present?

Question 5

When can you depart from the use of IPMS in reports/marketing details?

Question 6

What are the new requirements imposed by IPMS Residential?

Question 7

Do you use Elmhurst for your EPCs?
How do you report the size of an alternative wall in an EPC?
What do you include in the perimeter wall measurement for a terraced tenement flat?
Two identical flats in four storey block – first and second floor have different ratings – why?

Question 8

Measurement of a shop/office - you stated GIA, what other measurement is the norm?

Question 9

How would you measure a shop?

Question 10

How do you measure and calculate the floor area of an irregular five or six sided space?

Question 11

How would you measure a large area of land without using Promap?

Question 12

How is your measuring equipment calibrated?

Question 13

What are the core definitions of floor area specified in the Code? GEA GIA NIA.

Question 14

How and why are shops zoned? Why is 9.14m/30ft used in Scotland?

Question 15

How do you deal with a return frontage? And multiple floors?

Question 16

What is the status of IPMS Residential? Do you use it? Why?

Question 17

Which basis of IPMS is closest to GIA?