CONTOURED'S Story

Thanks for visiting our website! My name is Nate Olson, Founder & CEO of Contoured, Inc. Over the past 15 years I have been fortunate to assist many of the worlds foremost owners, operators and developers of low and high rise office, industrial, retail, multi-family & mixed-use properties. While working with those professionals I started to notice something curious.

Building area calculations has become evermore important. The amount of time buyers have to perform their due diligence on buying multi-million and even billion dollar assets shrank in some cases to 10 days. Buyers are evaluating/assimilating significantly more data and information to make informed decisions about buying.

Additionally, navigating measurement standards across markets has become very sophisticated with the introduction of newer updated standards, modified existing standards and contradictions to how leases actually state how the area of the building or suite is calculated.

Buyers are often concerned about accurate area measurement provided by sellers. After re-measurement many times building square footage increases. Owners are faced with the challenge of communicating to their customers/tenants that their area or square footage has increased.

For office buildings alone we encounter any of the following methods of measurement; BOMA 1996, BOMA 2009, BOMA 2010, BOMA 2017, BOMA 2019, REBNY, IPMS, AIR, AIA, GSA, GWCAR & many local standards, not to mention many times the standard has been altered or modified from the published version.

I quickly concluded that trust/confidence between buyer and seller, owner and tenant is paramount. Additionally, there had to be a quicker & better way to accurately inspect & verify buildings in order to meet the demands of the shortest contingency periods. No matter the measurement standard the explanation and impact of the area calculations had to be explained in a much simpler and meaningful way. This conclusion easily led me to the following:

Contoured's mission

TO BUILD AND FACILITATE TRUST AND CONFIDENCE WITHIN THE COMMERCIAL REAL ESTATE, ARCHITECTURE, ENGINEERING AND CONSTRUCTION COMMUNITIES.

We fulfill our mission by quickly creating staggeringly accurate as-built floor plans and building models utilizing the most leading-edge mobile and stationary LIDAR scanners and spherical imaging technology.

From the precise as-built floor plans and models we substantiate and simplify building area measurements.

The result is absolute certainty that area calculations are accurate and defend-able and that the represented as-built conditions of the building/project are true.

About our Founder

Founded in 2017 by Nate Olson, former Chief Operating Officer and Executive Vice President of Stevenson Systems, a leading national building measurement firm, Nate worked alongside the world's foremost owners/operators, architects and developers of mixed-use commercial and high-rise office and residential buildings including JP Morgan, Hines, The Irvine Company, Brookfield, Boston Properties, Kilroy Realty Corporation, Greenlaw Partners, Ware Malcomb Architects, Skanska, Tishman Speyer, CBRE, Lionstone, Industry Partners, Ferrado Group, LBA Realty, KBS Realty Advisors and many more.

Past notable projects for Nate include Salesforce Tower, Wilshire Grand, The Watergate, US Bank Tower (Los Angeles), Bank of America Tower (Dallas, Houston, Phoenix), Century Plaza Towers, Msheireb (Doha, Qatar), Embarcadero Center, City National Plaza (Los Angeles), Wells Fargo Center (Denver, Los Angeles), Bishop Ranch (San Ramon, CA), Park Place (Irvine, CA), Newport Center Office Collection (Newport Beach, CA), Safeco Plaza & Russell Investment Center (Seattle), Shell Plaza (Houston).

Nate is an active member of the BOMA International Floor Area Standards Committee, most recently the Vice Chair of the 2020 Retail Standard and a contributing author to the 2017 Office, 2012/2019 Industrial, 2018 Gross Area & 2012 Mixed-Use BOMA International Floor Area Measurement Standards. He is also a member of ULI and the Southern California Commercial Real Estate community and has been a licensed real estate broker in Califrnia for nearly 20 years,