We have a 4 building project, it's an industrial plant. Showers and changing rooms will be concentrated in one building that wil serve the entire plant for that matter. The actual building's FTE is 13 but over 200 employees will be in and out of the building using shower facilities. How should we proceed with the FTE calculation? If we consider FTE=13, we won't be reflecting the actual use of the building. If we consider the 200 employes for the sake of WEp1, this number will not be consistent with the FTE in other credits we are seeking - SSc4.2, SSc4.3.
If anyone could shed a light on that will be really appreciated!
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Michelle Robinson Schwarting
148 thumbs up
April 19, 2012 - 10:06 am
It sounds like the shower users would be a form of transients. Counting them that way may however "incorrectly" skew your need for bike racks at the one building.
I would probably make a document that explains the occupancy numbers for all the buildings, identifying FTEs at each building, transients at each buildng, and an additional category of "visitors" from the other buildings for shower facilities.
Consider including a narrative in that document for each of the LEED credits impacted by the FTEs and how they're addressed. I would think this would let the LEED Reviewer "understand" how you are indeed being (appropriately) consistent across all the credits and all the buildings.
Marcio Alberto Casado Pereira
181 thumbs up
April 19, 2012 - 3:34 pm
Thank you very much Michelle! This is a good way to approach the issue.
Jutta Berns
onwer and principalecocentric (pty) ltd.
130 thumbs up
August 6, 2012 - 9:17 am
we have a similar issue with one of our projects (an industrial project), with a 'shower house' with ONE FTE. We want to include the shower house in the certification and are trying to find the best way to do this:
the 'shower house' is the central ablution facility for the entire site and will be used by around 350 people/day. our sense is that we should certify the 'shower house' as a separate building, since other than playing a support function to the industrial spaces on the site it cannot be naturally slotted into any group of buildings. My first question is therefore whether this would be an accurate assumption to make?
Following on from the string of conversation on the topic above, we are considering two options how to account for FTE usage of the 'shower house':
1. since we know who will use the 'shower house' from across the project (LEED projects only), we can calculate these FTEs as visitors (from the other LEED projects on the site) and transients (in this case drivers) in the calculations for WEp1
2. another option - but this may be a bit way out - could be to treat the shower house water use as process water - given that the employees will shower as a result of the process on the site?
we would imagine though that option 1 would be our best bet?
many thanks!