Hello LEEDUser! I am working on a rather large building in NYC (2 million SF). They want to conduct an audit for IEQc3.2 but we are concerned about consistency. Here's why: 1) the building is too large to conduct a full audit in a timely manner with 2 people. Even starting first thing in the morning before occupants come to the building, we are still going to be auditing well into the evening hours which means that the spaces we get to later will be less clean because they will have been occupied all day. We may not even be able to complete the audit in under a day, which runs into more consistency issues. 2) we are considering using 2 teams of 2 auditors (4 people total) to get the job done faster to avoid this, BUT then we run into consistency issues with how the auditors are scoring and the fact that each team will only see half of the audited spaces. 2 teams will get the job done faster and all 4 people will receive the same APPA training. Is this an acceptable method? Has anyone ever conducted the audit like this? It seems like no matter what we do we are compromising the consistency of the audit. What do you recommend? Thank you!!
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Allison Beer McKenzie
Architect, Director of SustainabilitySHP Leading Design
LEEDuser Expert
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February 21, 2012 - 1:18 pm
Alexis- do you still feel the building is too big even auditing only 10 of the spaces as allowed by APPA?
Alexis Thompson
Building ScientistChelsea Group, Ltd.
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February 22, 2012 - 11:11 am
Yes, we are concernced about the size and consistency of the audit. We are definitely only going to audit 10% of the building but still...10% of 2mil is 200,000 SF!! I've done these audits myself in the past, and the most I've ever audited is 60,000SF and that took apprx 6 hours. Even with that size we were moving slightly faster than the APPA recommended 10 min per space. With 200,000 SF of space it would take about 20 hours to complete the audit with a single team moving at this pace (which is why we are proposing the 2 team approach). We are at odds here because if we move any faster than 10,000 SF an hour, we risk the integrity/thoroughness of the audit; if we move at 10,00SF an hour it will take a single team 2 10-hour days or 3 7-hour days to complete it; and if we use a 2 team approach then we risk consistency with scoring. Ideas? Thank you!!