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NC-2009 IEQc8.2: Daylight and Views—Views
Our project is an Animal Resource Center associated with a University, in which animals are kept in holding rooms, and transferred to separate surgery, exam or treatment rooms for research purposes. Would any of these rooms be considered as regularly occupied spaces? Humans would not be in the animal holding rooms other than to feed and check on the animals.
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Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
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November 17, 2011 - 12:18 pm
Andrea, I don't think these spaces would be considered regularly occupied based on the LEED definition. If the human time in the room per day were one hour or more, and it sounds like that's not the case, then that would be different.
Jill Perry, PE
ConsultantJill Perry, LLC
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November 18, 2011 - 1:23 pm
I have had reviewers specifically state that the amount of time spent in an area has nothing to do with it being regularly occupied.
In this case, I would look more toward arguing for an exception based on use. In my one-time experience with animal labs, control over the animal's sleeping patterns, lighting, and noise were critical to the research being done and windows would impede this. Is this something that applies in your case? Or, you could argue that this is basically an animal storage area but because they need to feed and check in on the animals, that might be a harder sell.