Our project is installing the fan coil units and each will be individually controllable. Its quite typical in the UK to have an open plan office with a mix of permanent workstations, "hot desks" and partly enclosed (high partitions ~6-7ft high or very open plan meeting areas, in addition to cellularised meeting rooms. For the more open areas hot desks / open plan meeting tables what is the best way to demonstrate compliance for these areas, how much local control would these areas need ? would one control in an area of 180-200sf suffice and then more control (50%) for the permanent workstations? any thoughts on how best to approach this credit would be appreciated. regards
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Lauren Sparandara
Sustainability ManagerGoogle
LEEDuser Expert
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August 12, 2013 - 1:10 pm
Hi Vivien,
For the most part - even open office workstations need to be treated and counted as a series of individual workstations and therefore need their own controls to meet the credit. If you have desks that are very rarely occupied, using the definition of LEED: "Non-regularly occupied spaces are spaces that occupants pass through, or spaces used in pursuit of focused activities for less than one hour per person per day (on average)" then you could probably get away with not providing controls for these spaces. Otherwise, you need to count each desk as a work station and then provide the required percentage of controls for those workstations.