We have a new office project inside a campus, there is an existing big parking area serving the campus not adiacent to the building, no parking are allocated inside our LEED boundary and not new parking will be added to the existing parking area. We do not want to include any parking into the LEED boundary and we want to attempt SSc4.3 and SSc4.4 reserving parking lots as much as required by credits. Is signage related to minimim standard for the building under certification sufficient or must we extend to all parking spaces reserved parking % and minimum standard verification? Are there other requirements in addition to signs to define and reserve parking?
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Judhajit Chakraborty
Building Performance SpecialistWSP Built Ecology
2 thumbs up
July 7, 2015 - 5:08 pm
Hello,
First of all, even though you LEED boundary does not include any parking, for SSc4.3 and SSc4.4, you should assign some parking through applicable codes and standards and put that number in PIf2. I have succesfully used the Portland Parking and Zoning code - Page 6 which states that for campuses, if there are no parking codes, then provide 1 parking spot per 600 sf of the total gross square footage of the project. Also there are similar standards put forward by the Institute of Transport Engineers (ITE) Parking generation 4th Ed which has been approved as well. For SSc4.4, its simple you just click on "No new parking is provided" option and explain that you are using the existing campus parking for the project.
For SSc4.3, you need to then need to choose which option you are pursuing and calculate the number of parking spots required to meet the credit requirements for that option and then provide signage details for them.
Also you must take note that if there are existing signage in the parking lot, then find out if any adjacent LEED certified building has already used those for their documentation. If yes, then you cannot double count it for your project. Provide documentation in that respect as well.
Hopefully this answers your questions.
Heather DeGrella
Sustainable Design Director, Associate PrincipalOpsis Architecture
71 thumbs up
July 7, 2015 - 5:29 pm
Another option for campus parking is to determine the percentage of building area for your project compared to the total building area for all projects on the campus that use the parking. Then allocate the number of parking spots from the total parking spots based on the same percentage. Example: all buildings on campus equals 100,000sf, and your building is 10,000sf. Your building area is 10% of whole. Parking lot has 300 spots. Allocate 30 spots to your building for LEED calculations. The signs used for your preferred parking will have to specifically reference your project "Reserved for Low-Emitting/Fuel-Efficient Vehicles for Building XXX"