usable floor area

The school has a large library which usable floor area is 3200 square meters.

Each floor has 815 gross square feet, with space so organized that a high percentage is usable floor area.

It is critical to a building's size what space is or is not counted as usable floor area.

As the amount of necessary structural support and vertical circulation grows, usable floor area diminishes, and so does a developer's profit.

As is customary in New York City, these gross square footages exceed the usable floor area of each unit."

Routing bus traffic under a stand raises issues of both traffic and fire safety while simultaneously reducing the usable floor area of the new structure.

Driven by the desire to maximize the usable floor area, some developers avoided the use of setbacks, creating in many instances a range of fire safety and health hazards.

What has made the exterior staircase particularly attractive to developers is that it has provided a modest bonanza in usable floor area and a better "floorplate" for apartment design.

It was designed by British architect Lord Norman Foster, and was the most expensive building in the world based on usable floor area at the time it was built.

The derivation was made by calculating the usable floor area of the individual building and dividing the sum by the total area of the site, including (where appropriate) half the width of the adjoining streets.

Dr. Pérez envisions a new hall - also named Fiterman in honor of the original donors, Miles and Shirley Fiterman - that would have more usable floor area than the old building, which was a renovated 1950's office tower.

Counting Usable Floor Area The executive director of the Citizens' Housing and Planning Council, Willa Appel, said, "In an effort to preserve neighborhoods, the department has proposed zoning rules that would reduce the number and size of homes, while increasing their costs."