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Practical notes on testing residential sites, measuring floor area and planning basements.
How to test what fits on a residential site in 10 minutes
A practical early-feasibility workflow for apartment sites: the controls you need, how to generate and compare massing options, and how to read yield, parking, cost and residual land value.
FSR, GFA, GBA and NSA: the area terms every feasibility uses
Plain-English definitions of floor space ratio, gross floor area, gross building area and net sellable area, what each includes and excludes, and the efficiency ratios that link them.
Basement car park layout basics: bays, aisles and ramps
How residential basement car parks are laid out: AS/NZS 2890.1 bay and aisle sizes, the 16.6 m module, ramps, accessible bays, storage and what drives the number of basement levels.
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