I am working on a government project and half of our building is a garage space.
1. Do we have to put 10 ft long floor mats at each exterior door to the garage? We have very large overhead door openings for the vehicles and in atleast one location a floor mat that long would be in the path of vehicular traffic. would we be able to put shorter pats (6 feet) in the garage and perhaps an additional mat at the door between the garage and the administrative portion of the building?
2. Would it be permissible to exclude these floor mats from the contract but include them in our drawings (N.I.C.) and create a cleaning and maintenance plan for the owner? We do have permanent recessed grilles at the main entrance but because the roll mats aren't attached to the floor (and can't be) we may not be able to include them in the project budget.
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Emily Catacchio
Sustainability SpecialistWight and Company
610 thumbs up
March 7, 2012 - 10:22 pm
Misty,I may be mistaken here, but I believe you only need walk-off mats at enterances to your building. I would not include the garage, in this case, as part of the building. So you would only need the mats at the enterances of the building and in the direction of travel, so inside the building, not the garage in the case of the two being attached.
Elle Brown
28 thumbs up
March 8, 2012 - 9:42 am
Thanks for your response. I was concerned because the garage will be used for vehicle maintenance and people will probably be walking in and out of the overhead doors and there isn't much we can do about peventing people from dragging in debris that way. The exterior pedestrian doors are more for emergency exits and we dont anticipate them being used that much but we weren't sure how LEED would view it.