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finished floor thickness

The distance between the upper and lower surfaces of a floor in a building, including veneers and lowered ceilings.

The finished floor thickness for any building is the median vertical distance between the finished upper floor surface of any floor in that building (except the basement floor and the roof), and the surface of the finished ceiling below that.

This measurement is always greater than or equal to the floorplate thickness.

The value is a median across the whole object and not a figure taken from one place. A tower normally has thicker walls low down than high up, so a number read off a single detail drawing answers a different question than this field asks.

Where a building has two clearly different constructions, such as a podium and a tower, each is described on its own record rather than averaged into one value.

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