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Use Structures to Model Floors

Creative way to model floor-by-floor variations for high-rises

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Written by Jon Kern
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Treating Floors Separately

In some structures, the differences across floors may be negligible. Use the typical approach as shown in this article.

In another situation, you may have an extremely complex set of information to be managed: 

  • Main checkin desk for building and Company X is in the lobby; 

  • A bank has part of the first floor for a branch and all of floors 2-3-4, and 

    • subleases space on the 5th floor to a company with lab animals. 

  • Four more companies are on the 6th & 7th floors. 

  • Company X has floors 8-10. 

  • The 11th and 12th floors are mechanical floors.  

  • There are some equipment (generators, etc.) specific to their operations on the top floors

  • And there are parking garage levels B1 & B2.

You can get creative if you need to pull out a lot of detail about individual floors in a mid- or high-rise, for example.

You can create multiple structures to group the proper floors together (all with the same address). You can add them under a "campus style" preplan if it helps to keep them grouped together. Your choice may depend on how you expect to be dispatched to an incident.

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