BOMA Newshttp://www.bomasacramento.orgWed, 08 Sep 2010 03:06:29 GMTPlan Ahead! BOMA Sacramento's 2011 Event Calendar Now Available!http://www.bomasacramento.org/plan-ahead-boma-sacramentos-2011-event-calendar-now-available1Tue, 17 Aug 2010 23:11:33 GMTDanielle SmithPlan ahead! Review BOMA Sacramento's 2011 Event Calendar!

Click the "Events Calendar" link on the website's top navigation panel to search events and for registration information.

]]>http://www.bomasacramento.org/plan-ahead-boma-sacramentos-2011-event-calendar-now-available1BOMA Standards updated for 2010http://www.bomasacramento.org/boma-standards-updated-for-2010Thu, 18 Feb 2010 23:49:42 GMTDanielle Smith

Are you aware of the new BOMA Floor Measurement Standards and possible impact on your buildings? 

For nearly 95 years, BOMA International has sponsored the standard method for measuring Floor area in office buildings. This BOMA Standard has been accepted and approved by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI). It is the method of measurement used by building owners, managers, facility managers, occupants, appraisers, design professionals, measurement professionals, leasing professionals, lending institutions and others to compute rentable areas in office buildings throughout the United States, Canada, and many other countries throughout the world.

The 1996 Standard (Z65.1-1996) has been used for office buildings for the past 14 years.   Up until 2004, the Standard simply consisted of an Office Standard for calculating Rentable areas in typical office buildings that had some ground floor retail areas.  In 2004 BOMA released the Industrial Standard, to be applied to all buildings that had more than 50% of space classified as ‘non-office’.

However, in 2007 a major new initiative was announced between BOMA and IFMA (International Facilities Managers Association) to adopt and release a ‘Unified Approach for Measuring Office Space’.  Both organizations realized they needed to standardize common terms and definitions used by both leasing and facilities management professionals.  This document was to become the new basis of all future BOMA Measurement Standards.

In the past year, BOMA has released new Standards (Office 2010) for multi-tenant and single-tenant office buildings in compliance with this IFMA/BOMA Unified Approach, and are currently working on new Standards for retail space, mixed-use space, multi-tenant residential space, and Industrial space.

 How does this affect me? 

Click here for resources to get your questions answered, and for the links to order your copy of the new standards.

This information is brought to you by Corporate Design Group, Inc. & Lasertech Floorplans. 

Lasertech is an official interpreter to BOMA  International for the BOMA Standards.

]]>http://www.bomasacramento.org/boma-standards-updated-for-2010BOMA's Experience Exchange Report (EER)http://www.bomasacramento.org/bomas-experience-exchange-report-eerFri, 12 Feb 2010 22:40:47 GMTDanielle Smith
Dear Sacramento BOMA Members,

 

As many of you already know, from January to March of each year, BOMA International gathers office building actual income and expense data from building owners, building managers, and portfolio managers that is analyzed and published in the Experience Exchange Report.

In an effort to go “green” BOMA-International and BOMA-Sacramento will conduct the survey entirely online and won’t print the survey forms.   

The 2010 EER survey is open NOW and can be accessed using this link: BOMA’s Experience Exchange Report® (EER).

The deadline to submit building information for the 2010 EER is March 31, 2010. 

BOMA staff will also provide assistance to those who have historically submitted data via the printed survey form. Contact BOMA’s Research Department at (202) 326-6346 or eer@boma.org.

 The online survey form is faster and easier than using the paper form. Fundamental building demographic data is stored, saving respondents valuable time because they don’t have to re-enter that data. Instead, they can proceed to update the survey form with this year’s operating income and expense information. 

The online survey form is also “smart”; it will prompt respondents if they forget to answer critical questions, or if the data submitted seems amiss. And it’s convenient. Respondents can save their data and complete the form as time allows. Once it’s complete, we’ll send an automatic email confirmation. And if you forget to finish, we’ll remind you.

We look forward to your active participation of EER 2010 and thank you in advance for another successful year!

 

If you have any questions, please contact Noel Popwell, BOMA International’s Manager of Research Development at (202) 326-6346 or e-mail eer@boma.org.

 

Click here to view the email sent  from BOMA International on January 20th, notifying you of this year’s BOMA EER process.  

 

 

 

 

 

]]>http://www.bomasacramento.org/bomas-experience-exchange-report-eerBOMA Sacramento's 2010 Event Calendarhttp://www.bomasacramento.org/boma-sacramentos-2010-event-calendar-now-availableTue, 10 Aug 2010 19:03:34 GMTDanielle SmithAs you prepare for the New Year, don't forget to review BOMA Sacramento's 2010 Event Calendar!

Click here to download your own copy of the calendar.

Click the "Events Calendar" link on the website's top navigation panel to search events and for registration information.

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