Greaatings LEED Users.
The project we are working on currently located in LEED gold Core&Shell Building in Saudi Arabia.
and We have the following case in our project ,
An opened to corridor printing and copying room with no doors (3 wall Partition room ), the question is do we have to close this room with deck-to-deck partitions or a hard-lid ceiling and provide self-closing doors .
NOTE: the current design provides exhaust above the printing machines.
emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
LEEDuser Expert
477 thumbs up
August 30, 2023 - 12:27 pm
Hi Amgad,
In short, if it's a regular office printer/copier, especially the ones that are small enough to sit on a desk, table, or counter, then they are exempt from the door and ceiling requirements as they are considered low-volume. Sometimes, there are also free-standing printers/copiers that are larger, but are still low-volume. The credit requirements are intended to apply to high-volume machines.
See if you can link to these two posts in the New Construction page for this credit, as there has been more discussion there (same requirement):
https://leeduser.buildinggreen.com/forum/need-get-clear-idea-about-requi...
https://leeduser.buildinggreen.com/forum/low-use-printing-rooms-exempted...
Sometimes links posted in this forum don't cooperate, so if that happens, just navigate to this credit under the NC forum page, go into the forum posts page, and use the search bar on the left side to enter 'printer'. These posts will be in the results.
Mohammad H Abbasi
Senior ConsultantWSP
LEEDuser Expert
18 thumbs up
August 30, 2023 - 12:43 pm
Hi Amgad, do you share the type of printers you have? most likely yes, you need to add a self-closing door and exhaust but depends on printers