Projects with basements

I am working on a Clinic that has one basement floor entirely below grade. There are no inpatient areas in this project so we only need to comply with the Non inpatient portion of the credit that gives a perimeter area threshold per floor plate. From looking at the Reference Guide, my understanding is that this project cannot meet the requirements for the credit since the basement floor plate will not have any windows to provide views in the perimeter areas and the credit is based on the worst performing floor plate, even though there is an additional 400,000 sq ft of clinic space spread over 4 floors above grade that complies with flying colors. Could someone tell me if I am correct? It seems to me that there should be some sort of calculation that averages the areas of perimeter spaces with views, otherwise any project that has the tiniest fraction of the building completely below grade will not comply. Also, the calculations section of the reference guide gets into some semantics about "qualifying walls" in regards to below grade walls but is pretty vague and confusing as to whether the basement has no qualifying walls and therefore is an exception, or just does not meet the credit requirements.