#### 5.4.3.4 IfcBuildingStorey

| Niveau
| Geschoss

The building storey has an elevation and typically represents a (nearly) horizontal aggregation of spaces that are vertically bound.

A storey is (if specified) associated to a building. A storey may span over several connected storeys. Therefore storey complex provides for a collection of storeys included in a building. A storey can also be decomposed in (horizontical) parts, where each part defines a partial storey. This is defined by the composition type attribute of the supertype IfcSpatialStructureElements which is interpreted as follow:

- COMPLEX: building storey complex
- ELEMENT: building storey
- PARTIAL: partial building storey

> EXAMPLE In split level houses, a storey is split into two or more partial storeys, each with a different elevation. It can be handled by defining a storey, which includes two or more partial storeys with the individual elevations.

The IfcBuildingStorey is used to build the spatial structure of a building (that serves as the primary project breakdown and is required to be hierarchical). The spatial structure elements are linked together by using the objectified relationship IfcRelAggregates.

Figure 84 shows the IfcBuildingStorey as part of the s patial structure. It also serves as the spatial container for building and other elements.

> NOTE Detailed requirements on mandatory element containment and placement structure relationships are given in view definitions and implementer agreements.

Figure 84 — Building storey composition

> HISTORY New entity in IFC1.0

Attribute Use Definition

Figure 85 describes the heights and elevations of the IfcBuildingStorey.

- elevation of storey provided by: IfcBuildingStorey.Elevation as a local height value relative to IfcBuilding.ElevationOfRefHeight, it is usually the top of construction slab
- net height of storey, also referred to as total height or system height (top of construction slab to top of construction slab above): provided by BaseQuantity with Name="GrossHeight"
- net height of storey (top of construction slab to bottom of construction slab above): provided by BaseQuantity with Name="NetHeight"

Figure 85 — Building storey elevations

## Plumbing System Design

Instance diagram

Identity

The Identity concept applies to this entity.

Exchange |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Import |  |  | R |  |  |  |  |  | - |  |  |  |
Export | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | R | - |  | R | R | R

Properties for Occurrences

The Properties for Occurrences concept applies to this entity as shown in Table 17.

PredefinedType | Name
--- | ---
| Pset_BuildingStoreyCommon
Table 17 — IfcBuildingStorey Properties for Occurrences

Exchange |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Import |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
Export |  |  |  |  |  | O |  |  |  |  |  |  |

Building Storey Elevation

The Building Storey Elevation concept applies to this entity.

Exchange |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Import |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  | - |  |  |  |
Export | O | O |  | R | R | R | R | R | - |  | R | R | R

Spatial Decomposition

The Spatial Decomposition concept applies to this entity as shown in Table 18.

Spatial Parts
IfcSpace
Table 18 — IfcBuildingStorey Spatial Decomposition

Exchange |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |  |
--- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | ---
Import |  |  | O |  |  |  |  |  | - |  |  |  |
Export |  |  | O | R | O | R | O | O | - |  | O | O | R

XSD Specification:

<xs:element name="IfcBuildingStorey" type="ifc:IfcBuildingStorey" substitutionGroup="ifc:IfcSpatialStructureElement" nillable="true"/>
<xs:complexType name="IfcBuildingStorey">
<xs:complexContent>
<xs:extension base="ifc:IfcSpatialStructureElement">
<xs:attribute name="Elevation" type="ifc:IfcLengthMeasure" use="optional"/>
</xs:extension>
</xs:complexContent>
</xs:complexType>

EXPRESS Specification:

ENTITY IfcBuildingStorey

| SUBTYPE OF (IfcSpatialStructureElement);

Elevation | : | OPTIONAL IfcLengthMeasure;

END_ENTITY;

Attribute Definitions:

Elevation | : | Elevation of the base of this storey, relative to the 0,00 internal reference height of the building. The 0.00 level is given by the absolute above sea level height by the ElevationOfRefHeight attribute given at IfcBuilding.

Inheritance Graph:

ENTITY IfcBuildingStorey

| ENTITY IfcRoot

GlobalId | : | IfcGloballyUniqueId;
OwnerHistory | : | OPTIONAL IfcOwnerHistory;
Name | : | OPTIONAL IfcLabel;
Description | : | OPTIONAL IfcText;

| ENTITY IfcObjectDefinition

| INVERSE

HasAssignments | : | SET OF IfcRelAssigns FOR RelatedObjects;
Nests | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelNests FOR RelatedObjects;
IsNestedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelNests FOR RelatingObject;
HasContext | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelDeclares FOR RelatedDefinitions;
IsDecomposedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelAggregates FOR RelatingObject;
Decomposes | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelAggregates FOR RelatedObjects;
HasAssociations | : | SET OF IfcRelAssociates FOR RelatedObjects;

| ENTITY IfcObject

ObjectType | : | OPTIONAL IfcStrippedOptional;

| INVERSE

IsDeclaredBy | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelDefinesByObject FOR RelatedObjects;
Declares | : | SET OF IfcRelDefinesByObject FOR RelatingObject;
IsTypedBy | : | SET [0:1] OF IfcRelDefinesByType FOR RelatedObjects;
IsDefinedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelDefinesByProperties FOR RelatedObjects;

| ENTITY IfcProduct

ObjectPlacement | : | OPTIONAL IfcObjectPlacement;
Representation | : | OPTIONAL IfcProductRepresentation;

| INVERSE

ReferencedBy | : | SET OF IfcRelAssignsToProduct FOR RelatingProduct;

| ENTITY IfcSpatialElement

LongName | : | OPTIONAL IfcStrippedOptional;

| INVERSE

ContainsElements | : | SET OF IfcRelContainedInSpatialStructure FOR RelatingStructure;

| ENTITY IfcSpatialStructureElement

CompositionType | : | OPTIONAL IfcStrippedOptional;

| ENTITY IfcBuildingStorey

Elevation | : | OPTIONAL IfcLengthMeasure;

END_ENTITY;

Link to this page