Hello. We are in the very first steps in our first LEED Home. While looking at out options and working on the threshold adjusment, the checklist is telling us we need over 80 points only to be Certified since the residence has a large footage and large number of bedrooms. Our goal was to work for achieving Platinum but with the adjustment the spreadsheet is telling us we practically need to achieve all the points available!
The home has bedrooms available for fulltime housekeepers and we would like to know if this would make the project a mutifamily building and if with this we are required to use the home size adjustment method for mutilfamily buildings?
Would the fact that the structure of the residence already exists (nothing would be added) affect the threshold adjustment?
Thank you!
Ann Edminster
founder/principalDesign AVEnues LLC
LEEDuser Expert
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July 8, 2014 - 10:50 pm
The project would still be considered a single-family home. However, the additional bedrooms may be included in the bedroom count, as may any other rooms that might reasonably be used as bedrooms should the space be required for that purpose, so long as the rooms or spaces (such as loft areas) both provide reasonable sleeping privacy and meet code requirements for sleeping rooms -- i.e., emergency egress, daylight, and air.
The fact that the structure already exists has no effect on the threshold adjustment.