BIM
All 11 articles in this area, A–Z
- The backwards method — sizing buildings from furniture2026-05-17
The Building Width Calculator inverts conventional office planning by deriving building width from actual furniture dimensions — desk, exam table, lab bench, courtroom bench — rather than fitting tenants into a predetermined structural grid.
- Business — key plans2026-05-17
Business Office key plan specifications within the Professional Office classification, distinguished by the widest Zone 2 Magazine depth of any sub-type at 9.26 m, driven by open storage walls, server rooms, and team collaboration zones, in three sizes from 311 to 669 m².
- Floor plate methodology — key plans and tiles2026-05-25
A geometric self-similar aperiodic space-planning system sizing floor plates from actual furniture inventory through Key Plans, Tiles, and Building Core assemblies — all dimensions traceable to real furniture SKUs, every climate zone matching exactly one Tile.
- Floor plate tile combinations — sample compositions and trade-offs2026-05-17
The named sample Tile compositions from the V12 Methodology — four configurations documenting the trade-offs each makes across tenant mix, climate-zone autonomy, leasing gap positions, and demising tolerance.
- Key plans index — master reference2026-05-25
Master directory of 72 key plans across nine Development Classes, pairing Development Class with Typology and Eco Region to produce the file-name slugs referenced across downstream BIM artefacts, DTCG tokens, IFC entity classifications, and regulation overlays.
- Leasing plan efficiencies — aperiodic tiles vs. modular grids2026-05-17
Quantitative case for the aperiodic tile system: irregular Private Office widths produce 1.78 times more distinct leasable configurations than a uniform modular grid at 95 percent of the area, with 78 percent of the door and service hookup count.
- Medical — key plans2026-05-17
Medical Office key plan specifications within the Professional Office classification, distinguished by the widest Zone 1 Habitat depth at 7.28 m to accommodate exam-table clearance and dual patient-clinician circulation, in three sizes from 223 to 486 m².
- Private Office — key plans2026-05-17
Private Office key plan specifications — three suite sizes (30, 43, and 64 m²) opening directly onto the shared building corridor without an internal bilateral corridor, sized for individual professional tenants rather than firms.
- Professional Office — key plans baseline2026-05-17
The Professional Office superordinate category covering five sub-types — Business, Medical, Laboratory, Academic, and Civic — with the Initial Design baseline zone dimensions that preceded sub-type specialisation.
- Tile system — small, medium, large, and special2026-05-17
Tiles are the composable HVAC-climate-zone units of the floor plate: three regular families at 2,700 SF, 5,400 SF, and 8,100 SF plus Special Tiles that handle building cores and ancillary areas, assembling to fill Net Leasable Area without remainder.
- Zone depths per use type — sources, values, rationale2026-05-17
Canonical Zone 1 Habitat, Zone 2 Magazine, and Zone 3 Corridor per-side depths for seven Professional Office use types from Private Office to Business, with derived building widths and source citations to V12 sketches and methodology documents.