Hotel Blower Door testing

Susan Di Giulio

Senior Project Manager

Zinner Consultants

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February 2, 2016

I have two questions on blower door testing for hotel rooms: 1.Can this be done on a 1 out of 7 sampling basis as per residential units? 2. Do designated no-smoking rooms need to be tested as well? This is a CA project, so no-smoking is the rule with some rooms designated to allow smoking. No public/common areas allow smoking.

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Melissa Kelly

Sustainability Specialist

Gensler

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Tue, 03/15/2016 - 18:27

Hi Susan, In answer to your first question, yes, hotels can follow the same sampling protocol as residential buildings. Thinking about the intent of the testing, I would think that all the rooms would need to be sampled to demonstrate that smoke couldn't infiltrate from a smoking room to a non-smoking room--unless there is an engineered approach which completely isolates the smoking rooms for the non-smoking rooms, in which case you may be able to apply the isolation requirements of Interpretation #10249.