Hello,
We received a LEED comment on EQc5 and EQc6: "Provide a narrative and revise the form so that the individual occupant workstations and shared, multi-occupant spaces are reported consistently among all submittals".
Unclear how this makes sense for residential units: for EQc5, only one control is needed for the dwelling unit so inputting each room within the dwelling unit (1-3 bedrooms etc.) would lead the reviewer to believe that less than 50% of individual occupant and less than 100% of multioccupant (dining, kitchen, living) have controls.
Can anyone share how they completed the forms for EQc5 and EQc6 for residential dwelling units so they # of individual and shared spaces are reported consistently?
Zeynep Cakir
LEED AP BD+C, WELL AP, Sustainable Building ConsultantECOBUILD
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October 9, 2020 - 6:53 am
I can suggest two approaches. Although the residential bedrooms are classified as individual occupant spaces in the reference guide, you may report the whole dwelling unit as a shared-multioccupant space in the LEED form for the purposes of the thermal comfort credit since it is stated in the reference guide that 'the entire residential unit only needs one thermal comfort control.' For the interior lighting credit, you will need to distinguish individual occupant and multi-occupant spaces which will result in a discrepancy between EQc5 and EQc6. In that case, you will need to provide a narrative explaining the discrepancy (which is what they ask in the review comment).
Alternatively, you may report the individual and multi-occupant spaces separately in the EQc5 form (same as in EQc6) writing that same thermal comfort control for all. In this case, the number of thermal comfort controls will seem more than actual number, so you will again need to provide a narrative explaining this discrepancy. I believe you won't have a problem as long as you comply with the credit intent and requirements and explain your approach and reasoning to the reviewers clearly.