The meat of Analytics is the Measure: a formula that combines numerical data from Components additional formulaic inputs from the Formula Function List to produce calculations that match your firm’s requirements.

Results from calculations performed in Measures could be hard costs, net rents, IRR, NOI, impact - the sky is the limit!

Measure anything and everything! Organise how it makes sense for your project or your firm. Some measure suggestions could be:

• Costs

  • Hard Costs
  • Soft Costs
  • Financing
  • Fees

• Income

  • NOI, IRR
  • Net Rents, Gross Sale Price
  • Vacancy Factors

• Urban Form

  • Parking
  • Canopy Cover
  • FAR, GBA, NRA

• Built Form

  • Building, hardscape, and/or landscape areas
  • Count of Dwellings, Buildings, and Features
  • Efficiency rates

• Impact

  • Jobs Created
  • Tax income
  • Social Spend
  • Residents/Dwelling

• Reporting Metrics

  • Cap Rate
  • Return on Cost
  • Time to value

The Measure Builder

Open the measure builder from the analytics window or configurator.

The measure builder opens when you click “new measure”

Information

a. Category - Select from Categories in your project. This is where the measure will display in Tabs

b. Name - The display name of the measure

c. Unit - Select from Units in your project, or create a new one. The units display in Tabs

d. Precision - the number of decimal places to display / round to

e. Details - Give your measure a description. This helps other project editors understand what the measure is for

f. Tags - add tags to group measures

g. Filter: Filter by any property values within the project to only include specific features in the measure

h. Appearance

• is bold - displays bolded text in Tabs
• hidden in table; Does not show in the table view in Tabs. It can still be included in other category Widgets .

Components

i. Components - The components are the inputs for your Formulas

Calculation

j. Formulas combine Components and functions (from the Formula Function List) to create calculations

k. operation - see How do Analytics Measures Calculate?

l. per feature - inspect how the formula operates on each feature

m. result - the total or the result for the first drawing layer (if split by layer)

n. unused components - any unused components will throw an error. remove them from the measure if unnecessary

p. errors - If the result is an error or you cannot save, review errors here

q. quantity and rate - setQuantity/Rate here for export

Admin

r. save changes - adds the measure to the category and closes the builder

s. Duplicate or delete