Hello,
I need some help with defining FTE for hotel occupancy.
1) How do we determine the FTE occupancy for hotel?
2) When we assume the hotel guests as the transient occupants, what is the area per transient occupants for the hotel guest to be used. I couldn't find any guideline in Appendix 1 of the LEED 2009 reference guide.
3) when we calculate the minimum number of bicycle racks for this project, we can exclude the transient FTE for hotel guest. There is very little or no chance that the hotel guests will bring along the bicycle.
Appreciate any suggestion. Many thanks in advance!
Grace
David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
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August 8, 2010 - 3:44 pm
Grace, for hotels you need to make some assumptions that may come from the business or operations plan:
1) FTE is based on expected number of employees, so your most accurate staff numbers would hopefully come from the client/owner. You may need to compile your own spreadsheet to summarize the different shifts and convert any part-time staff to the Full Time Equivalent. I believe the Reference Guide tells us to use the FTE number for the busiest shift, but we'll want to confirm that.
2) The Appendix 1 is useful for estimating occupancies in Core and Shell buildings or spaces where occupancy can easily be estimated based on industry averages for use by area. Hotels don't really work that way, except possibly the conference or meeting areas. For your hotel, find out from the management if they expect 1 person per room or "key", 1.5 per room/key, or whatever. If the hotel does have conference, meeting, or restaurant areas that serve the public in addition to the reserved guests, presumably the hotel management would have made assumptions of expected occupancy or annual averages for the number of public visitors.
3) I'd agree you can probably exclude bike racks for guests.
Grace Ming
Senior ESD Consultant95 thumbs up
August 20, 2010 - 1:57 am
Thanks David....