Calculating FTEs

So, if I understand correctly, we have staff that shows up at the beginning of the day, hop into a fleet vehicle and take off all day, return at the end of the day, and go home. It's an unusual case, but I'm not sure it would be correct to use the same FTE values across all credits. It seems appropriate to treat these folks as part-time staff for calculating water reduction, but for the alternative transportation credits, they shouldn't be treated any differently than someone who works their 8 hours in the office. The use patterns for parking, bike storage, and shower rooms should be the same for both full-time on-site and off-site staff members. Perhaps the project FTE (that you enter into the PI forms) should include on- and off-site staff, counting hours worked whether in or out of the office. Then, in the WEp1 form, establish a separate fixture group for off-site staff that better reflects their actual time spent on site. You'd want to include a narrative clearly explaining your rationale.

Hi everyone, We are working to certify an airport terminal building outside of US, our concerns is how to calculate FTE and peak building users considering that the operator don't have any information about the regular staff number at this stage. Are there any figures to facilitate the calculation (per sqm)? thanks

Not sure if you ever got an answer to your question - one place to start is the CS Appendix 1 at the end of the LEED 2009 BD&C Reference Guide. This provides default staff and transient numbers per area for different building types. It doesn't have an "airport" building type but you might use this to cross check your assumptions. In your case the airport planners or specialty consultants may have formulas or rules of thumb for estimating the number of travelers, support staff, employees etc. that would be using the airport at a reasonably full capacity. Is there an existing airport that you can use as a starting point, and ask the designers if those assumptions should be adjusted up or down?

Saliha, Check the CIRs for airport specific rulings. The site is being maintained just now, but in about 12 hours should be back up. The rulings will be for the older versions, but are helpful and give you a basis for your methodology/approach.

David, Tyra, Thank you for your help. We did ask the airport planners to give us some numbers. I think in a lot of matters, LEED NC is not easy to implement in an airport project even if there is already some of them already certfied.

Dear all, we are currently performing a LEED O&M 2009 assessment for a mixed use building. We having trouble determining the Full Time Equivalent (FTE) for theatre area. Doese anybody have experience in this field or default values for calculating the fte for theatres? Thanks in advance for any comments, Jens

Thanks!

Hello Everyone,    Once performing the calculation of Part time and Full Time Equivalents if we get an total FTE value which is not a whole number (e.g. 135.67) are there any rounding rules for the FTE value used for LEED Calculations?  Must it be a whole number? Or can we keep the value with decimals?    How do we include occupants working 10 hours/day, can we include them as "Overtime Occupants"? for the purposes of LEED FTE calc.  (e.g. 10 occupants x 10 hours = 100 / 8 hours = 12.5 )   thanks

Or shall we split the overtimes into 10 Full Equivalents 8 hours/day. And 10 Part Time Equivalents working 2 hours per day?

Either way you get to 12.5 FTE, which needs to be rounded up to the next whole person; 13.