If a tenant chooses to certify ith CI in an already CS v.4 certified building (that has earned full points for Surrounding Density and DIverse Uses as well as Access to Quality Transit, Bicycle Facilites and Reduced Parking Footprint) - does evidence documentation need to be submitted or are these credit points automatically earned for the CI certification? If evidence is needed, can the same evidence as for the CS project be used?
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Kristina Bach
VP of InnovationSustainable Investment Group
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March 31, 2017 - 9:32 am
My understanding is that you would need to submit documentation related to your CI project. Some of these items could use the exact same documentation as the CS project as they are entirely location-based (Surrounding Density + Diverse Uses and Access to Quality Transit). Both Bicycle Facilities and Reduced Parking Footprint, however, would need to be new CI-specific documentation as they depend on the amount of those amenities that are available to your CI occupants rather than just what is available to the whole building. You would want the CS documentation for your use/reference to help confirm compliance, but you would still need to generate your own showing how your CI project has impacted the credits.
For example - Bicycle Facilities:
You'd have to look at the CS documentation and assumed CS-occupancy to see how many of those amenities were provided for your project. If those amenities are reserved for just your occupants, then you'd just have to re-run the calculations based on your actual CI-occupancy to confirm that the CS-provided amentity for your project still meets your CI requirements based on your actual occupancy. If the amenity isn't reserve for just your CI occupants, you'd then have to put your actual CI-occupancy back into the assumed CS-occupancy to confirm that there's still enough at a base-building level. The easiest way to do this is to pull out the CS-assumed occupancy for your space to come up with the remaining assumed base building occupants and then add in your actual
CI-occupancy (to come up with an updated CS-occupancy that is a mix of assumed+actual). Then you'd have to re-run the calculations using that new occupancy number to confirm that there are enough amenities to meet all those newly calculated occupants.
You can easily end up needing to add more amenities when your actual CI-occupancy is confirmed if it is significantly higher than what the CS project assumed when doing their calculations.
Reduced Parking Footprint has similar recalculation issues as you have to be looking at the parking that was required by your code for your project (not the CS project) and making sure that your CI-occupants don't have access to more than the allowed number of spaces. And then the carpool spaces are supposed to be designated for your CI occupants only. It hasn't been confirmed, but I do know of a project that is looking at doing the 5% carpool spaces across the total capacity of the garage rather than just their CI occupants (so they're confirming that they don't have access to more spaces than required by their specific code but then meeting the carpooling requirement at the whole-garage level instead of just at their CI level).