We're working on the adaptive reuse for a five-story 100-year old building (former warehouse/office building being renovated into a boutique hotel) that has been vacant about 15 years. When the current owner purchased the building a few years ago, there were no interior walls in the building. The team has designed the renovation so that most of the existing nonstructural elements will be reused; the interior finish of the exterior walls (brick and plaster) will remain as is, the exposed concrete ceilings will remain as is, and most of the flooring for the new hotel (sealed existing concrete, existing terrazzo) will be reused. Does anyone know if we can exclude the area for interior walls that may have previously existed in our calculations since the building did not have any when it was purchased by the current owner? Also, does sealing existing unsealed concrete allow us to count the area of the sealed concrete flooring towards the 'Reused Area' for this credit's calculations?
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Christine Robbins-Elrod
Studio Director5G Studio Collaborative,llc.
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August 1, 2011 - 4:30 pm
Or now that I'm reading further into it, it looks like the previously existing interior walls would be irrelevant? Would the underside of an existing concrete floor slab be considered a 'finished ceiling' if it is left exposed?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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November 20, 2011 - 9:44 pm
Christine, I agree that I don't see how you can count reuse of interior walls that aren't there. The good news is that the absence of these elements doesn't count against you.I believe that refinishing a floor counts as reuse, so you could count the slab.