We have a facility that will provide a gym, art classes, weight area, aerobics, etc. It its mostly health activities related facility. The facility will have around 80-100 visitors per day, some of them using the showers, however i noticed that in the water efficiency calculator, visitors are not included in the shower usage, except for FTEs which in our case are only 10 people. How can I adjust the usage so that it accurately demonstrates savings of new showers installed for the facility members?
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Carlie Bullock-Jones
PrincipalEcoworks Studio
LEEDuser Expert
220 thumbs up
December 29, 2015 - 12:24 pm
Based on the project type (health facility) it seems reasonable to include some visitor shower use. In the WEp1 Form calculator I would create an additional fixture group just for the visitor shower use (however you will likely need to list these 80 – 100 visitors in the FTE column in order for the Form to calculate this fixture group). I would provide a narrative explaining your methodology and rationale for including the visitor shower use.