Building Quality Assessment (BQATM)
There is a critical link between the quality of an office building and its ultimate performance as an asset. Yet, there is no prevailing rating system in place to measure a facility's relative strengths and weaknesses in relation to industry standards and user expectations.
The Rider Levett Bucknall Building Quality Assessment (BQA) service addresses this need with a standardised method for quantifying and evaluating building quality based on standard criteria across a number of predetermined categories (configuration, services, amenities, building management, etc.). The service provides a quality grade for a specific facility based on its physical characteristics and an 'apples to apples' comparative analysis against other similar assets.
The analysis highlights categories where the facility does not meet market expectations and user benchmarks, identifying areas where upgraded capacity or utility could be considered to enhance the grading or performance of the building. This evaluation enables the optimisation of the right mix of quality factors to match investor, owner and user objectives.
In 2006, Rider Levett Bucknall and others assisted the Property Council of Australia in creating "A Guide to Office Building Quality" for grading the quality of existing offices and providing design specification for new offices.
Benefits
- Cost-effective quantitative assessment
- 'Apples to Apples' comparison of options
- Recommendations to achieve benchmarks
- Identification of areas of deficiency with regards to quality
- A basis for cost: benefit analysis and value engineering
- A strategic property decision making tool
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