The LEED v4 glossary defines “regularly occupied spaces’ as “enclosed areas where people normally spend time, defined as more than one hour of continuous occupancy per person per day, on average...”
Our building includes a large baggage handling system (BHS) hall. The hall is mostly BHS system, while staff only occupy limited zones within this space. Is it possible to define these limited occupied zones within the larger space as ‘separate’ spaces even though they are not enclosed?
By defining them as separate spaces, it would mean that the EQ credit requirements (Indoor air quality/ventilation, lighting, etc.) would apply to these small occupied zones, while the rest of the BHS is unoccupied. Implementing the EQ credit requirements to the entire whole might be wasteful, as the majority of the space is unused by people.
Has anyone addressed any similar situation? What would the best approach?