Hi - we've received a comment on our water use calculations about changing the % of male occupants using restrooms with urinals because the project also includes several single occupant all-gender restrooms. " The percent of males expected to use restrooms with urinals in the Indoor Water Use Calculator is listed as 100% and has not been adjusted to reflect the male occupants’ use of the unisex restrooms without urinals that are shown on the floor plans in PI Project Information."
The all-gender restrooms are not instead of gendered ones, but supplement them to add more inclusive options for occupants. Anyone have experience with how GBCI would expect us to make the determination of how many males would use the restrooms without urinals, or do we just need to explain the above?
Thanks!
Yarden
In my projects where this was the case, our estimates are usually in the 85-100% range, depending on location, access, and anticipated frequency of people choosing to use those GN facilities. We always provide a little narrative - usually only a few sentences - explaining our logic behind the % chosen, and have not had any further issues with the calcs.