I am working on a LEED v4.1 BD+C Medical Office Building project and trying to complet the WEc1 form. There are no fixture options for for the following fixtures:
1) Exam Room sinks or sinks that are located in soiled / clean work rooms.
2) Soiled / clean workroom sinks
3) EVS/Janitor Mop Sinks
Should these sinks be listed as Kitchen Sinks (2.20gpm)?
Dave Hubka
Practice Leader - SustainabilityEUA
LEEDuser Expert
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December 18, 2020 - 1:19 pm
These fixtures should be excluded from the indoor water use reduction calculation.
emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
LEEDuser Expert
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December 18, 2020 - 5:38 pm
To follow up on David's response, all of those items are lumped with the process water uses, which is why they don't need to be included.
I have had reviewers tell me that we could include the little hand wash sinks in individual rooms if we wanted to, but aren't required to. I usually just leave them out.
Catherine Blakemore
Architect, LEED AP BC+DHOLT Architects
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February 1, 2023 - 2:37 pm
Emily following up on your and David's responses, should all the handwashing sinks in exam rooms and at nurse stations be excluded?
The WEp2 form includes process water, but does not list hand-washing sinks for soiled and clean utility rooms or exams, nor mop sinks, drinking fountains or bottle filler stations.
How should all-gender toilets be addressed? All the toilet rooms are all-gender except for a few program specific toilets where male and female changing rooms were programmatically required along with accompanying toilet rooms.
emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
LEEDuser Expert
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February 2, 2023 - 12:13 pm
You should be able to exclude the exam room and nurse station sinks if you want. It'd probably help to stick a note somewhere for the reviewers that confirms these are considered process water.
The toilet rooms' fixtures should be listed the same way as a typical group restroom. As long as all of your occupants have access, the % per line item should remain 100%. What will be different is the field at the top-ish, under the occupancy table, where you'll need to estimate the % of males who do not have access to a urinal. That number stays 100% if your project only has the standard group restrooms, but will be less than 100% depending on if your gender neutral rooms have a urinal (some include it) or not, and if you have urinals located elsewhere. The fewer males who have urinal access, the lower that % will need to be.