Hello,
We have an office building where the main entrance is at the back, close to the parking area. All FTE use this entrance. The front entrance of the building is primarily for visitors and is not regularly used by workers.
Do we still need an entryway system at the front entrance, considering that it is not a frequently used exterior entrance?
Thank you.
Stephanie Graham
Sustainability ManagerBurns & McDonnell
26 thumbs up
November 7, 2023 - 12:33 pm
Absolutely you must provide walk-off surface at all entries, even secondary ones. I believe that unless a door has hardware for exit only, you must consider it an entrance. If this is not in the Guide fine print, I have received the comment in the past.
Dave Hubka
Practice Leader - SustainabilityEUA
LEEDuser Expert
495 thumbs up
November 7, 2023 - 12:59 pm
The only exterior located doors that GBCI has allowed me to exclude are as follows:
Emergency egress only doors that are alarmed when opened. Door to a mechanical-type room with no access to the rest of the building. Renovations/Additions that do not include an exterior entrance. Entrances at loading dock doors / garages..BUT..entryway systems need to be installed from these such spaces into other areas of the building.
"install at regularly used entrances" is misleading language in my opinion.
CS projects only address such entrances within the CS scope of the project, TSLA is not needed in this case.
Hope this helps!