Is there a means of scheduling Areas category (area plan regions) and Rooms category together in a schedule. (Rooms communicating with Area regions. Identifying/collecting all rooms within an Area region).
Similar to an embedded furniture schedule in a room schedule, to be able to embed a room schedule within an area schedule.
The Room/Area Report tool works almost as desired, except for the html export and general fixed formatting. If only there was a way to add/customize parameter columns to this tool, remove the area calculation images, and preferably keep it within an internal Revit schedule formatting.
Rooms alone don't provide the flexibility of comparing room areas to their gross department areas. (not department areas, which are only totaled room areas and not the total area of the department including structure). Room area calculations to the centerline/core of the walls does not include the entire building area, especially if you're modelling with built-up wall systems (instead of single all-encompassing wall assemblies). This is possible with separated schedules, but then requires manually combining and formatting them in external apps.
An example of why this is desired:
A large facility has multiple wings, of varying construction types, services and degrees of finishes. For rough cost estimating (~Class C ish~), we want to extract the building footprint areas of the wings, and organize all the rooms and their room areas within these wings. This way we can provide a rough cost for the building envelope of the wing as a whole, and then add room specific costs to the rooms within the wings. Preferably in a system that allows a fairly automated workflow for any new project.
