I'm working on a project that consists of a new office building that will be constructed on top of an existing shopping center. It will have its own entrance but will also communicate directly into the shopping center mall.
There is a bicycle network that passes in front of one of the shopping center entrances, however, the distance from this network to my building entrance is more than the 180m requirement. Once the occupants of my building have direct and interior (covered) access to the shoping center mall and, therefore, can walk from the building to the bicycle network using the shopping mall is it possible to consider that this bicycle network fulfills credit requirements for my building? If it helps to fulfill credit intent there is also the possibility that the required number of bicycle storage is installed next to the mall entrance qhere the bicycle networks passes.
Kristina Bach
VP of InnovationSustainable Investment Group
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November 3, 2017 - 11:05 am
Can people bring their bicyles into the mall to get all the way over to your building? And is the mall open at a minimum at least all hours when staff would be commuting to your project? If so, I think you might have an argument that you could comply from the common mall entrance. But if occupants are not allowed to wheel their bikes through the mall and/or if the mall opens after the start of most of the businesses, I think you would be very hard pressed to use that mall entrance as a common entrance to your project (as then people biking actually wouldn't be using that pathway).
Ricardo Sá
Director of SustainabilityEdifícios Saudáveis Consultores (503 910 767)
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November 3, 2017 - 11:56 am
Dear Kristina,
thank you for your answer.
Do you think that if we install the required number of bicycle racks near that mall entrance (reserved to office building users only) it would comply?