Existing bike storage and showers

Peter, if this is a LEED-CI project, and only the radiology suite is in your scope, then you should be able to simply designate the appropriate number of existing spaces for the radiology suite, rather than adding new spaces. I think that's all that LEED would require. This would probably be a good opportunity, though, to check how much demand there is for existing bicycle racks, and if they seem to be full much of the time, add some capacity for the radiology suite, so that designating those spots doesn't make things harder for other bicyclists.

Yes, you can use the existing bike parking as long as it's within the required 200 yards from the building entry. However, the hospital be aware that if they have future LEED projects on site, they cannot take credit for the same bike parking spaces that you have for this LEED project -- no double dipping. The same applies for showers. Keep in mind that all FTEs who work in the space would need to have access to a shower somewhere in the facility, not just doctors.

When you calculate the number of FTEs for this radiology suite, I don't think you'd have to account for transient visitors (aka patients) because they won't be taking bikes to the facility.

Sherry, great comment, but I think it's important to clarify. The showering facility calc only includes FTE's, such as staff, so transients like patients aren't counted there, anyway. The bike rack count would need to account for transient visitors such as patients, and I wouldn't feel comfortable assuming that they can be excluded just because it's a radiology suite, without doing a CIR through GBCI. There is some precedent for this, but you may have to demonstrate why it can be reasonably assumed that those visitors will not have a bike, and how they will be accommodated if they do.

We are doing a project where the base building has enough bicycle places for the whole building occupants to use, but no bicycle places can be specifically reserved for any tenant. Is there a applicable alternative compliance approach?

I have a similar project as Ruifei's. We have a very large CI project going into an existing building that is also currently attempting EBO&M; they have not yet submitted for certification. The building is part of a larger center that includes several buildings. There are existing bike racks that are located in the shared underground parking garage; these racks, in addition to the car parking spaces, are shared by all of the buildings in the complex. There are numerous spaces available, but as of right now, no bike rack spaces can be specifically allocated for a particular tenant (while car parking spaces can). How can we best go about documenting compliance?