Hi, I have a problem with caluclating FTE for our NC project. The building is a social - office building consisting of 2 floors - ground floor is a social part for factory workers and second floor is an office part.
On the groud floor - there is a canteen, showers and toilets for factory workers and first floor - we have typical office space. As the water usage in the building will be generated by the factory workers (working 24h/d), that come in into the factory through the discussed building, how to treat them? should they be treated as partial FTE (let's say they spend 2 hours a day in this building - half an hour in changing rooms in the morning, 1 hour for lunch and half an hour in the evening to change clothes) or should they be trated as transints? the bicycle racks will be provided in discussed building as well.... Many thanks.
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Erin Holdenried
Sustainability Architect125 thumbs up
June 23, 2014 - 10:29 am
For the admin occupancy, I would classify the factory workers as student transients to get your water efficiency calculations.
But, you will have to do a separate occupancy calculation for SSc4.1. Because occupants of multiple buildings are using the showers and bike racks in the admin building, you will have to document this credit similar to a "campus approach". Calculate the FTEs and transients for both the factory and admin building. But, don't double count the factory workers (as both transients and FTEs), the factory workers will be FTEs only for SSc4.1.
Make sure to consider shift overlap when calculating the peak occupancy.
Anna Bak
Sweco6 thumbs up
June 23, 2014 - 10:33 am
Many thanks for quick reply. that's very helpful. I didn't realise that we can have different FTE claculations for different credits. Thanks again!