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Use Structures to Model Floors

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

Written by Jon Kern

Treating Floors Separately

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