Room data sheets provide systematic reviews of a building’s needs and they play a vital part in planning and design as well as project development. They facilitate communication with quality assurance, as well as change management.
They are usually developed during the briefing phase (architectural programming in the US) of the project, in order to convey the client’s requirements for each kind of space. They are then used to create specifications that assist designers and contractors determine what the client would like from the space and ensures any proposed solution meets their expectations.
Typically architects create room data sheets by conducting interviews with their clients and others. They are usually a work in progress and can be a living document until the design team have reached an agreement on the final version.
When you are creating a room information sheet the most important thing to keep in mind is to list all the requirements per space type and to categorize each item as being either ‘general’ or ‘specific’. One general requirement could be that a workplace must be soundproofed up to a certain level and specific requirements could include:
With Layer’s standard digital rooms templates for data sheets and pre-defined picklists, you can gather all the necessary information in a simplified and efficient manner. This helps to push designers to think strategically about all possible requirements, minimizing the possibility of misplacing something. Furthermore, when you connect your room data sheets to an IFC floor plan you can here generate automatic adjacency diagrams that show how requirements are translated into spatial solutions.
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