We are building a hotel and it seems many of the credits are focused on office buildings. IEQ 8.2 specifically states "For private offices, the entire square footage of the office may be counted if 75% or more of the area has a direct line of sight to perimeter vision glazing." Could we use this same % for guest rooms in our hotel? The majority of our building is guest rooms and has very few offices.
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TODD REED
Energy Program SpecialistPA DMVA
LEEDuser Expert
890 thumbs up
December 7, 2012 - 1:18 pm
No, hotel rooms are considered residential, and therefore the compliant square footage is what must be used in the calculations.
Hernando Miranda
OwnerSoltierra LLC
344 thumbs up
December 7, 2012 - 1:31 pm
The 75% thing was not created by the IEQ Technical Advisory Committee. I was the vice-chair of that committee, long ago, when the allowance appeared in the NC Reference Guide.
The TAGs were responsible for developing the credit requirements but the 75% is a completely bypassed the consensus development policy for LEED.
The idea behind the 75% is not bad, but it is being strictly enforced based on language not properly thought out long ago by the Reference Guide authors.
Hotel rooms and bedrooms are the types of spaces, in addition to private offices, which SHOULD be get an allowance. Usage-wise they work the same, the ability to locate furniture to take advantage of views.