The building contains 2 below ground basements and 3 office floors above ground, should we add the basement floor area in the total area of the building for the building density calculation??
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Ellen Mitchell
331 thumbs up
March 4, 2013 - 10:13 am
There is a thread about this in the CS forum for SSc2 (dated 12/11/12), although there was not a clear consensus. I would say that it depends on what the basement is used for and if it is included in your overall square footage calculations that you based your GBCI review fees on.
BABAR MEHMOOD
SAUD CONSULT3 thumbs up
March 5, 2013 - 6:16 am
The 2 basements consists of car parking alongwith the Operation and maintence section for the health care building above ground (3 levels). We didnt register the project till now. Need your suggesstion on this. Thanks
BABAR MEHMOOD
SAUD CONSULT3 thumbs up
March 12, 2013 - 1:49 am
Ellen, the above info i put is not very clear. There are 3 floors above the ground level housing the medical facilities. While in below ground 2 basement levels are there. Basement-1 has partially car parking area along with administration/ operation and maintenance rooms. The basement-2 is fully housed with car parking.
The project is going to be registered under LEED for Health care in coming week.
Thanks
Ellen Mitchell
331 thumbs up
March 12, 2013 - 10:18 am
I would think a reasonable approach is to exclude any square footage that is parking since you would exclude that portion of the building when registering with GBCI (price is based on square footage but excludes parking structures).
Eric Bautista, LEED AP
Managing ConsultantEB Project Management
June 10, 2016 - 2:11 am
Hi Babar,
The basement parking areas are also considered as non-ROA (non-regularly occupied areas) and are not air-conditioned spaces, so better to exclude it in declaration of your Gross Floor Area and Devt Density calculations.
Basement parking can be declared as undercover parking areas and can be used for calculations under Parking Capacity and Heat Island non-roof.
Regards,