Our project is the second phase of a four phase master plan for a hospital campus. The first phase MOB was not required to be LEED certified. The rest of the phases will be LEED certified. Generically, phases one, two and three are all in a row and a concourse will link all three and there is a guest parking garage one one end of the MOB (not connected directly) and an employee parking garage on the other end. Until phase 3 is built and becomes the main hospital entry, patients to our phase 2 cancer center will enter through the phase one building which does not have permanent entryways. The regular entry into phase 2 is internal - no direct exterior access, ever. Some patients will always enter through phase 1 due to the parking garage, others will be dropped off at the phase 3 drop off. Will we be required to install a permanent entryway system to achieve this credit or can we claim the phase 3 entry as future? The distance from the phase one building entrance to the entry of the cancer center is 75 feet long. My inclination is that we will be denied due to the use of the phase 1 building. But any pollutants will be in phase 1 and shouldn't enter phase 2 due to the distance and these buildings are not linked anyway mechanically, so the spirit is met for phase two. Has anyone run into a similar situation?
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Allison Beer McKenzie
Architect, Director of SustainabilitySHP Leading Design
LEEDuser Expert
646 thumbs up
January 10, 2011 - 8:50 am
I think that you can be successful on this credit if you write a very good narrative and perhaps do a diagram that demonstrates that people will not enter the building you are working on directly. However, is there a problem with providing entry way systems in your phase just in case people do end up using those doors regularly?
Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
1296 thumbs up
January 10, 2011 - 4:25 pm
Thanks! I'll let you all know if we are successful with the narrative. There are multiple problems with locating mats inside the cancer center. One is the sudden appearance of a dirt collecting floor system inside a hospital and the second is phasing and the slight changing of the connecting corridor over time.
Christopher Schwurack
18 thumbs up
April 7, 2011 - 1:50 pm
I know I am a little late, but I did find a LEED Interpretation that seems to deal with this issue. It is #5266 in the LEED Interpretations database on the USGBC website.
Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
1296 thumbs up
May 27, 2011 - 1:56 pm
I saw that but it seemed like the first entry had entry grilles and then you did not need them into the project building. Here we have an entry building that does not have entry grilles and a project building that also does not have entry grilles.
Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
1296 thumbs up
March 20, 2013 - 11:44 am
Hey! We got our review back and since I promised feedback, here it is. The approach above was accepted without comment. We put together drawings showing the first phase and the final phase floor plans along with a short narrative. For each one, we measured the mat systems and showed the walking distance from that door into the Cancer Center.