How would you calculate your Daily Average Occupancy (for transients)? After showing our calcs for FTEs and Peak users, we received a review comment stating "It is unclear if the daily average building occupants have been included in the calculations for this credit, as the provided calculations describe the peak building users." TECHNICAL ADVICE: "Revise the calculations to include the daily average building occupants."
We have our FTEs nailed down, but per the owner we will have 50 people for 2 meetings per month with each lasting approximately 2 hours each and 25 students for 2 classes per week with each lasting appox. 2 hours. How would you calc each of these? I have asked under the WEc3 credit without any luck.
Melissa Wrolstad
Senior Project ManagerCodeGreen Solutions
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June 8, 2011 - 11:19 am
David,
Take the most conservative approach you can with your occupancy count that will not affect credits that depend on occupancy counts such as the bikes + water credits. If I were you, as a first step I would figure out exactly how many more FTEs and transients your credits can "handle". For instance, if your project put in 25 bikes racks and your initial occupancy count was 400 (FTE's + transients) - you could handle 100 more FTE / transients per day (500 FTE / transients * 5% = 25 bike racks.)
Once you've done this for all of the credits that are based on occupancy - pick the most conservative scenario that falls within what your project can "handle". A very conservative method you might want to pursue is to count the 50 visitors as daily transients and count the students as 13 FTEs (4 hours of class per day - converts to 1/2 an FTE each.)
The least conservative approach you would want to take is to count the visitors as 50 visitors * 2 meetings per month / 22 business days per month (or however many days your building will be open per month) = ~5 transients per day. The students you can count as 25 students * 2 classes per week * 2 hours / 5 days of classes per week (or whatever the case might be) / 8 hrs per day = ~3 FTEs.
I hope that is helpful - good luck!