All, we have a situation where we are pursuing LEED certification for an office/maintenance building for a winter resort. In calculating building users, there will be two peaks - one during the winter season when the resort is open, the other a much smaller spring-summer-fall season daily peak during the off season. Bicycling is not possible during the winter due to the heavy and persistent snowfall, so we are hoping we can plan our bike storage capacity for the spring-summer-fall peak building user season when bikes can and will actually be used. Is there any precedent for such an approach?
As well, the facility will have lockers, but showers are located next door in an adjacent lodge facility (within 200 yards). These showers will be available to building users- so I assume we can count these facilities toward our credit?
David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
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June 21, 2012 - 12:04 pm
Dave,
That sounds like a very reasonable approach, although I haven't come across any precedents that match your situation. The showers in the adjacent lodge can be used as long as there aren't other LEED projects double dipping on those shower counts.