Plaster and flat / non-flat and parking garage

Presumably more VOC is allowed in non-flat paints because it is either technically more difficult to produce these paints with very low VOC, or that not many non-flat, low VOC products were on the market at the time of writing LEED 2009. This may have changed since, but I suspect those are the reasons.

Plaster, meaning spackle and similar materials, is not considered a coating for purposes of LEED. If you seal the plaster, that material is a coating.

If the parking area is within the waterproofing membrane of the building and not open to the outdoors than it would probably be considered interior space.

Marco,

I was just looking at the USGBC guidance document on Minimum Program Requirements and there is a section on parking that you should review carefully. It likely answers your question about whether the parking on your project should be included definitively.

Here: http://www.usgbc.org/DisplayPage.aspx?CMSPageID=2102

where do you see that: "Plaster, meaning spackle and similar materials, is not considered a coating for purposes of LEED. "???

please help & provide a usgbc or gbi reference for that.

we have quite a lot of plaster on project and one plaster doesn't have vocs tested for.

THANKS!

Debra,
check out the reference standard for IEQc4.2 - SCAQMD Rule 1113 and you will find a list of product types that meet the definition of "paints and coatings".
Good luck!