Bike Racks Calculation for the 1928456ft2 Rapid Train Station

Orçun Özhelvaci

LEED Coordinator

Limak Construction Company

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April 21, 2016

Dear All, We have confronted with 1 complicated issue regarding Bike Rack numbers. The gross floor area 1.928.456 ft2 Rapid Train Station with its Hotel, Restaurant and Mall. There is 3550 FTE + 20000 expected passengers. Total number of required bike racks (5%) is 1177; (0.5%) 117 for showers. Question: Was it correct? We afraid that there might be a problem with our approach. So is there any other approach to calculate it? Because 1177 bikes are pretty much.

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Charles Nepps

NH Green Consulting

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Thu, 04/21/2016 - 14:44

A couple of questions; 1- Is the an NC or CS project, the requirements are lower for Core & Shell projects over 300000 sf. 2- The 20000 transients; is that the expected "peak transient" number or total number of passengers expected to use the station in a given day?

Ramkrishna Kashyap

Facilities manager

Prime project International Dubai

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Thu, 04/21/2016 - 14:57

Hi Charles, It is a C&S project and 20.000 is the peak number of expected daily passangers.

Charles Nepps

NH Green Consulting

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Thu, 04/21/2016 - 16:16

Take a look at the LEED Reference guide, the equations are different for C&S projects. Plugging your numbers into the credit form I get 209 spaces required. If you are having problems locating the equations, PM me and I'll send them to you.