FECA - ABBREVIATION
The Fully Enclosed Covered Area (FECA) is the sum of all areas at all building floor levels, including basements (except unexcavated portions), floored roof spaces and attics, garages, penthouses, enclosed porches and attached enclosed covered ways alongside buildings, equipment rooms, lift shafts, vertical ducts, staircases and any other fully enclosed spaces and usable areas of the building,
computed by measuring from the normal inside face of exterior walls, but ignoring any projections such as plinths, columns, piers and the like which project from the normal inside face of exterior walls.
It shall not include open courts, light wells, connecting or isolated covered ways and net open areas of upper portions of rooms, lobbies,
halls interstitial spaces and the like, which extend through the storey being computed. (See N.P.W.C)