Our office building includes a daycare center, with approx 100 kids on a daily basis. Would the kids be factored into the calculations using the same method of transportation as their parents? This would mean they'd either be alternative transportation users (if using metro), or carpoolers (if driving).
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Dan Ackerstein
PrincipalAckerstein Sustainability, LLC
LEEDuser Expert
819 thumbs up
April 11, 2012 - 1:16 pm
I'd be interested to hear if anyone else has had different experiences with GBCI on this, but my understanding is that kids in daycare would be treated similarly to K-12 students - they are basically not considered 'regular occupants' and are taken out of the equation completely. This means that the parent driving a kid to the office is commuting conventionally (assuming no other adults in the car, a conventional vehicle, etc...) rather than carpooling. My sense is that GBCI recognizes the imperfect nature of ignoring this portion of the building population, but given the nature of getting kids to and from school/daycare, there's just no good way to handle it. Anyone else had different feedback from GBCI?
Dan
Jason Franken
Sustainability ProfessionalLEEDuser Expert
608 thumbs up
April 11, 2012 - 1:23 pm
I agree with Dan, with one additional detail to add. My experience has been that, in a K-12 school situation, the commuting survey could exclude all students in Grade 5 and lower. So, for a daycare situation, you would definitely exclude all of the young children. However, in an actual school setting, you may need to include at least a portion of the student population, depending on the grade levels that the school includes.