Our Core and Shell project is a multi-tenant business building with a parking garage (underground) and is part of a campus area with some more buildings and parking areas. All parking spaces are for use for all FTE’s of the campus area. The owner wants to install electic charging stations for the FTE’s as a part of the building activity. He prefers to situate the charging station not inside the Project boundry but on the campus area near excisting parking spaces (it would be about 300 meters from the entrance of the building). We only found the information that in credt SSc4.3 the preferred parking spaces have to be closest to the building but no information about the distance of the fueling stations.
So would it be conform with the requirements of the credit SSc4.3 if the fueling stations are installed as part of the building activity on the campus area but not inside of the project boundry?
Ellen Mitchell
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July 24, 2013 - 5:51 pm
I don't think that your EV charging stations necessarily have to be preferred to meet the intent of Option 2, but if you are doing a campus-wide approach, you will need to make sure that there are enough charging stations to serve 3% of the total parking capacity of the campus, not just the parking serving your LEED project. Or conversely, if you want to provide charging stations for only 3% of the project's parking capacity, those spaces will need to be reserved specifically for your building only. In that case, it would seem to make more sense to have them all in your parking garage.