We are dealing with a Commercial Interior Project, which is located inside a LEED C&S certified building. Regarding the credit SSc3.2, the attendance of the LEED C&S building (SSc4.2) does not guarantee compliance in the LEED CI once the methodology used to determine each number of racks use a different percentage (3% of the occupants for up to 300,00sf and an additional 0,5% for the occupants over 300,000sf for LEED CS vs. 5% or more of tenant occupants for LEED CI) which using the same occupancy will retrieve obviously different quantities, not being able to use the provided rack from the C&S building?

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David Posada

Integrated Design & LEED Specialist

SERA Architects

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Wed, 08/14/2013 - 19:40

Cinthia, Not sure if I understand your question - is your CI project over 300,000 sf? Or is it a smaller project in a large CS building? A CI project in a CS certified building can use the same racks that were counted for the Core and Shell certification. Those racks are meant to serve the future tenants who occupy the building, which would include your CI project. A CI project can be very large, especially if it occupies the whole building. Its possible that 5% of the CI occupants comes out as more people than the 3% plus 0.5% method calculated for the original Core and Shell building. In that case you might need to add some racks in addition to the ones already built. Does that answer your question?

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