Mixed Use Building

The documentation for this credit is mostly populated from the LEED Online form for WEp1. When you're documenting WEp1 in the LEED Online form, you have he opportunity at the beginning to define "Fixture Groups," which could correspond to different usage types like those in your project.

I have a similar project type with split occupancies of office/retail on one floor and residential multi-family on three floors. My question is relative to calculating transients for the residential component. Appendix A in the LEED reference manual provides guidance for calculating FTE and transients for various occupancy types, but nothing for residential/multi-family. Because we couldn't find any guidance initially on the residential floors, we assumed one visitor per residential unit. Is there any rule of thumb for calculating transients for multi-family projects? Additionally, in the preliminary review comments, the reviewer suggested that "transients of the building should be removed from the calculations associated with these fixtures [residential] since they do not have access to these fixtures." This does not seem right as a visitor to a residential tenant would likely use the tenant's restroom, and not go down to the first floor to use the public restrooms. Thoughts?

William, I agree with your logic and I don't know of any other resources for residential transients.Have you learned more since you posted this?