I have about one million square feet of commercial office space that obviously includes mail rooms, entries, break rooms, small conference rooms, rest rooms, elevators, etc. Do I really need to measure each and every space to figure out total sq ft of each type? This could take weeks! Since it's all cleaned by the same crew can't I just do 10% of the total "Office" space?
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Allison Beer McKenzie
Architect, Director of SustainabilitySHP Leading Design
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August 10, 2010 - 12:45 pm
Lee- In order to be in total compliance with the APPA guidelines, you would have to total up your actual square footage of each space type and then audit 10% (or at least five rooms) of each type, so 10% of breakrooms, 10% of copy areas, 10% of private office, 10% of conference rooms, etc. There may be some latitude in estimating the total square footage of spaces of each type, but lumping everything together as "office" will definitely not fly.
From doing the audit in the past, I can also tell you that cleaning crews do put more or less effort into certain types of spaces and have specific issues associated with certain types of areas (i.e. sticky floors in break rooms, dirty blinds in conference rooms or burnt out lights in restrooms). Consequently, part of the value of the information derived from the audit has to do with dividing the spaces into types.
If this credit is more labor intensive for your building type than you would like, there are always other credits you can pursue instead!