# abstract
Square footage data is important to health care facilities for many reasons: it is used in gauging building performance; in planning new projects; and in creating more accurate capital investment estimates. Yet there are currently many different methods for determining square footage in health care departments. This monograph outlines a standard method to calculate the area of health care spaces. This method, based on years of development and vetting, creates much-needed standardization to the measurement process.

# authors[].organizations[].label
Texas A&M Engineering Experiment Station (TEES)

# publisher.label
American Society for Health Care Engineering

# authorList[]
Hamilton, D. K., Lavy, S., Kircher, A., Jiang, Y., & Dixit, M. K.