Site Feasibility for Developers: Plot Ratio, Site Coverage, Unit Yield, Parking Ratios & Build-Cost Checks
Test what a plot can hold before you buy it: buildable floor area from fictional zoning limits, footprint and floors, gross-to-net efficiency, unit mix that fits, parking spaces and a first cost check, with every cell checked as you go.
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About this course
This course runs a first feasibility test of a fictional development plot in a spreadsheet. You cut the buildable footprint from setbacks and a site coverage limit with MIN, turn a plot ratio into maximum floor area and check floors against a height limit with ROUNDUP and ROUNDDOWN, deduct cores, corridors and walls to get net sellable area and efficiency, fit a unit mix in whole flats, apply parking and bike ratios and price surface versus underground spaces, find the binding constraint with MIN and INDEX/MATCH, build an elemental cost check with SUMPRODUCT and compare three massing options by profit on cost with RANK.EQ and a chart.
Lessons
- Site Area & Setbacks: Buildable Footprint and the Site Coverage Limit Pro
- Plot Ratio: Maximum Floor Area, Floors Needed & the Height Check Pro
- Gross to Net: Circulation, Walls & Plant – Efficiency and Net Sellable Area Pro
- Unit Mix Fit: Unit Types, Target Shares, Whole Units & Leftover Area Pro
- Parking & Bike Ratios: Spaces Required, Surface vs Underground Pro
- Open Space, Density & Parking: Which Constraint Binds? Pro
- Build-Cost Check: Cost per m² by Element, Contingency, Cost per Unit & per Net m² Pro
- Comparing Massing Options: Value, Profit on Cost, Rank & Chart Pro