Can an apartment rental project meet the requirement of IEQp2 if they designate a percentage of rental apartments as smoking?
Smoking rates are declining approximately 20% in US according to WEB MD.
The project would not want to turn away a potential tenent. If the project dedicated 30% of the total number of units as Smoking Units and had different tenant agreements for each type of unit documenting the No Smoking Unit and a Smoking Unit. Could the project provide the weather stripping and the 1/7 blower door testing protocol for just those units and still meet the intent?
Non Smokers could move into a smoking unit if they chose or if that was all that was available.
If all of the smoking units were leased, smokers could not move into a Non Smoking Unit.
David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
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November 10, 2011 - 11:51 am
Since an building that allows smoking can meet the prerequisite by restricting smoking to designated smoking rooms that meet the ventilation and air tightness requirements, it sounds reasonable to designate specific units as smoking units. You might consider zoning the smoking units to a discreet part of the building - I imagine a reviewer would want to see that the exhaust from these units is suficiently far from any non-smoking unit windows and air intakes to prevent re-circulation. In addition to the tenant agreements, you might also want permanent signage that identifies the smoking and non-smoking areas. Since this is a pre-req, you might want to do a CIR to know for sure.