I am working on a LEED CS v.2009 project greater than 300 000 sf.
In the LEED Online form I have to fill out number of changing facilities and number of showers. The table then automatically tells me if I have enough compliant showers or changing facilities by taking the lowest number. I have manually calculated that I have to have 9 showers and 60 bicycle spaces. However, if I wish to have 2 changing rooms and have 5 showers in each, the form says I only have 2 compliant showers or changing facilities, and is not enough. Only when I enter 9 changing facilities and 9 showers the form says I have enough showers and changing facilites. It can't be right that we have to have one changing facilitie per shower?? Or what does LEED count as a changing facilitie? In the credit title it says changing room. Does changing facilities mean room for people to change, or lockers??
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Charles Nepps
NH Green Consulting97 thumbs up
June 20, 2017 - 4:57 am
In Table SS4.2.1 it says to enter the "Number of Showers OR Changing Facilities". Some projects will actually have a changing space per shower, so the number of showers and changing rooms is the same. On your project you have, I assume, a Womens and a Mens locker room, so the value you want to enter is the total number of showers, in your case 10.
Sara Johansson
LEED® AP O+MSkanska Sverige AB
2 thumbs up
June 20, 2017 - 5:02 am
Yes, the table states "Total number of compliant showers OR changing facilities." But below the table it says "This value is either the sum of compliant changing facilities or the sum of compliant showers, whichever is less." If I enter 2 changing facilities and 10 showers "Percentage of FTE with showers or changing facilities (%)" is 0,12% and it also says "Must be at least 0.5%."
Charles Nepps
NH Green Consulting97 thumbs up
June 20, 2017 - 5:15 am
OK, I see the problem. In the case of a locker room, you can use the number of lockers as compliant "changing space".