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I agree with David here. It's a rating sytem for "design and construction" not "operations and management," and the building is being designed for 125.
I am having trouble with a similar situation in LEED v2.2 and wanted to jump onto this thread to see if I can get an answer. For credit WEc3, I submitted our calculations which where used for WEc4.2 (bicycle storage). We have 26 FTE and 189 additional peak users. These peak users only happen occassionaly (monthly) and for one hour lab sessions only. SO in the template for WEc3 I put our FTE as 26 and transient/visitors as 189. Our reviewer said it was unclear if the daily average building occupants had been used because I submitted the calc showing only FTE and peak users. Is there a separate formula to calc daily average users? I thought the template is set up to calculate that on its own between FTEs and transients? If there is a calc for daily users, do I tag it onto my FTEs or include them as the transient/visitors? The template is seemingly straight forward but apparently not, any help would be great!!!
Andrew, Jean
For one of my LEED CI project, FTE is 430 and peak occupancy is 470.
Apart from workstations, the project has two training rooms each with a occupancy capacity of 60 and a cafeteria which has a capacity to hold 130.
Fresh air requirements have been designed accordingly.
When I report the above occupancy in VRP calculations, overall occupancy becomes 680 (430+60+60+130) which is not matching with peak occupancy 470.
Please note that training rooms will be used by internal staff and their is no external training. So at any point of the day, in office, the peak occupancy will be 470 including the transient visitors.
We have been asked the reviewer to justify the occupancy discrepancy.
Request your inputs.
Thanks
Sriman
Sriman,
Is the review comment regarding EQ prerequisite 1? You might look under the discussions for EQp1 or your particular credit on the CI and the NC forum. I recall a discussion about "diversity factor" in the ventilation rate calculations that might apply to your situation.
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