Description

Room data sheets are a systematic overviews of the building’s requirements and play a significant role in the planning, design and project development. They aid in communication as well as quality assurance and change management.

They are usually developed during the briefing phase (architectural programming in the US) of the project, to outline the client’s requirements for every type of space. Then, they are utilized to create specifications that assist design teams and contractors determine what the client would like from the space and make sure that the proposed solution meets the requirements of the client.

Typically, architects create room data sheets through interviews with their clients and other stakeholders. They are usually a work-in-progress and can be kept as a “living document” until the design team has agreed on the final design.

When creating a sheet of data for a space, it’s important to remember to categorize the items you create as ‘general’ or “specific”. A common requirement could be that the office needs to be sealed to a certain degree, while specific requirements may include:

With Layer’s standardized digital room data sheet templates and pre-defined list of picklists, you can capture all required details in a straightforward and efficient way. This helps to push designers to think systematically about all possible requirements, while reducing the possibility of not noticing something. Furthermore, when you link your room data sheets to an IFC floor plan you can automatically generate adjacency diagrams and see how requirements will be translated into http://www.searchstreams.info/data-stream-management-system/ spatial solutions.