FTE for residential project Case 3 of LEED CS

Paola Figueiredo, Newton Figueiredo

SustentaX

LEEDuser Basic Member

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March 15, 2011

I have a question to calculate the FTE for a residential project (2 towers in one condominium of one building). I checked the pages 60 and 61 and Appendix 1, together with errata sheet of the LEED Core and Shell V.2 Reference Guide. I would like to know if there is a different way to specify the amount of occupation to be a residential building where it is possible to predict the occupation or is there a standard calculation default for this as usual in the LEED.

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David Posada

Integrated Design & LEED Specialist

SERA Architects

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Tue, 03/15/2011 - 19:23

It's a bit surprising that there is a CS Option 3. for residential projects, as we've not seen any projects that were predominantly residential pursue Core and Shell. Typically LEED NC is pursued when there is a mixed use buildings with ground floor retail and residential towers above, or a lower commercial podium with residential above. Its common for that commercial space to be built only as core and shell construction, but since the residential units are usually fairly complete - walls, doors, finishes, bathrooms, etc - those usually push the project into NC. I can imagine an exception if the building is predominantly commercial with a small percentage of the building areas as residential. Is that your situation? For residential units, the FTE is based on the number of bedrooms - typically 1.5 unit people per bedroom.