Hi,
how do deal with the fact that often the final office floor plans will be fixed later on tenant request so that the technical provisions (negative pressure, etc.) for copy rooms can not designed unless a costly dense exhaust net is installed?
This fact also relates to other Credits, e.g view out, etc., and is a general problem.
Should a sample office floor plan be created?
Cheers, Mark
Susann Geithner
PrincipalEmerald Built Environments
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July 31, 2018 - 9:37 pm
Hallo,
What you would do is to apply strategies like this as outlined in LEED Core &Shell. You have design standards required by the lease to hold the tenants to it. As for copy rooms, unless those are high frequency copier, you do not need to separate those spaces. For janitorial storage areas, however you'll need this.
Now for daylight and view, you document compliance in a Core&Shell building by providing example layouts, which show, that those credits can be achieved. However since you posting under New Construction make sure your tenant spaces are not more then 60% of the total area, otherwise you picked the wrong rating system.
Good luck with your project and feel free to reach out to me in German, if you have more questions.
Susann
Mark Kumar Bose
Dipl.-Ing., Immobilienökonom (ebs)Masterplan Informationsmanagement GmbH
December 16, 2018 - 9:43 am
Hi Susann,
thanks for your reply a couple of weeks ago (our project got stucked :-) ).
Your wrote "However since you posting under New Construction make sure your tenant spaces are not more then 60% of the total area, otherwise you picked the wrong rating system."
I don' t really get your point, since the choice between "New Construction" and "Core & Shell" is the degree of completion not the type of user (tenant vs. owner; see https://www.usgbc.org/articles/rating-system-selection-guidance: "LEED BD+C: Core and Shell is the appropriate rating system to use if more than 40% of the gross floor area is incomplete at the time of certification.").
Do you mean it would be smarter to apply C&S in order to reduce the risk of losing credit points, in case a tenant possibly chooses floor plans / fit outs that harms credit language (e.g. in EQc6, "less the 90 % individual lighting control)?
Cheers, Mark
Mark Kumar Bose
Dipl.-Ing., Immobilienökonom (ebs)Masterplan Informationsmanagement GmbH
January 14, 2019 - 2:56 pm
Hi Susann,
did you notice my message above?
Shall I address somebody else?
Thanks, Mark