Hello,
I am working on a Co-ed dormitory were all of the bathrooms will be residential with the exception of two single occupancy bathrooms on the ground floor. These bathrooms will are located in a common area for the dorm directly across from the reception desk. There isn't a FTE for this building because all of the employees will also be residents within the building. Students will need key cards to enter the building, but it should be expected that there will be some transients from other students coming in to visit friends. My question is, do the single occupancy bathroom lavatory faucets need to be classified as public or residential? On one hand, the building is secured and not open to the public, but on the other hand students may let other students in and they may use those bathrooms. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks,
Michelle Robinson Schwarting
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March 29, 2016 - 9:44 am
I think it would be safer to classify them as public. You'll want to assign usage groups -- it seems like it could be reasonable to assign all the visitors to one usage group who use those two bathrooms and then assign all the residents to another usage group who use the residential bathrooms.
(Is your reception desk staffed by an FTE? If so, they would also use that bathroom.)
If the LEED Reviewer wants you to change it, they'll let you know. But I imagine the contribution of those two visitor bathrooms won't be very much compared to the residents, so likely it won't impact your water calcs too much...