I have a Sanitation Maintenance Garage project going for LEED, they have no meeting rooms or classrooms but they do have break rooms and lockers rooms. Based off the reference guide, since shared multi-occupant spaces are either "a place of congregation OR where occupants pursue overlapping or collaborative tasks", can I consider the break rooms and locker rooms as shared multi-occupant spaces? And if not, then I have to ask: is it necessary that the project building have both individual occupant spaces and multi-occupant spaces?
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Lauren Sparandara
Sustainability ManagerGoogle
LEEDuser Expert
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January 18, 2017 - 1:11 pm
Hi Edgar,
I think it's OK for your building to not have any individual occupant spaces. According to the IEQ Space Matrix, locker rooms and break rooms can be excluded from EQc6.1 or EQc6.2. So then I am lead to a question in my mind around wondering if you have any applicable spaces to include (multi or individual) that could apply for the credit. Can you review the IEQ Space Matrix to see if any of those spaces might apply for your garage space?
Lauren
Edgar Arevalo
Associate18 thumbs up
January 18, 2017 - 1:45 pm
Well my second question was more if it's ok to not have any shared multi-occupant spaces
Does the IEQ Space Matrix apply to LEED v4 rating system?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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January 18, 2017 - 3:59 pm
Edgar, in place of the IEQ space matrix, for v4 refer to the EQ Overview in the LEED Reference Guide.
Edgar Arevalo
Associate18 thumbs up
January 18, 2017 - 4:04 pm
Thank you Tristan. I took a look at the overview and determined that break rooms or locker rooms do not comply. So my next questions is can I still proceed with the Controls section of the credit inputting only individual occupant spaces and no shared multi-occupant spaces?
Lauren Sparandara
Sustainability ManagerGoogle
LEEDuser Expert
997 thumbs up
January 18, 2017 - 4:30 pm
Hi Edgar,
Sorry I misunderstood your question initially. Yes, you can just include individual occupant spaces if that is all you have. I don't think it would hurt to mention to your reviewer that you've considered all spaces and reviewed it with the EQ Overview in the LEED Reference Guide to make that determination.