Shower and changing facilities should be provided for 0,5 % of FTE occupants. In my project the requirement will be shower and changing facilities for 3 FTE, does that mean that you need to design one shower in each changingroom or is it ok to design 3 showers in one bigger changingroom? Does LEED say anything about the size of the changingroom?
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Robert Phinney
Director, Sustainable Design SolutionsHDR
26 thumbs up
August 7, 2012 - 11:01 am
it can be a shared changing area as long as it is a practical solution that will allow for enough room should all three showers be in use at once. one thing to note though, unless you intend on providing unisex shower rooms (which will require three seperate rooms with showers and changing areas), do not forget to divy up the showers based on M/F. Typically with an uneven number requried, you should round up to two per sex assuming a 50%/50% split. you cannot provide all the required showers and chanign rooms for one sex only unless you can show that the building is unisex as well.