My client's building is predominantly an office building. We have defined other space functions (cafeteria, toilets, meeting rooms, retail spaces, etc) in the Project Info forms. However, the portfolio manager's definition of spaces is not as detailed and different from the space categories definition of LEED.
My questions:
1) How do we align the space category definitions? and
2) Is it safe to define spaces not specified in the portfolio manager as "other", and the rest of "office" spaces being declared as such?
Chris Nixon
Manager, Sustainable SolutionsBRSC
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September 3, 2010 - 7:54 am
Energy Star bases their data on the primary building function, size, and location. They already take into consideration that if it's a 100,000 sf office building that it probably has a cafeteria, and a certain number of restrooms and meeting rooms. You might want to define the retail spaces, because that's not typical. Also, if you have a large server room I would label that separately because it'll probably help your score. In terms of your LEED submittals, I would add a narrative explaining your methodology and why you broke it down the way you did.
Pablo Fortunato Suarez
Principal ESD Consultant/ArchitectGreenArc Sustainable Building & Architecture
253 thumbs up
February 22, 2011 - 2:06 am
Thank you Chris. We've also been advised to separately consider the warehouse spaces.
Do we need to remove the basement parking from the building GFA declaration in the Project Information form?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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February 23, 2011 - 6:46 pm
Yes, I would not include parking in building GFA.