Our project is a school located in Puerto Rico, where the tropical climate allows for natural ventilation and where we don't use the HVAC system during construction. We know the ETS (IAQ credit P2) requirement does not talk about smoking control during construction, and we know it would be good practice not to smoke during construction. However, we are having a hard time having the contractor and the workers not smoke on site, which is what we wanted ideally, and unfortunately, the majority of the construction workers and engineers here in Puerto Rico smoke quite a lot. Does anyone know if there is somewhere where I can find more details of the smoking area on the construction site, aside from what the credit says of prohibiting smoking inside the building and within 25 feet away from doors, windows, intakes, storage of absoptive materials, once the building is enclosed?
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Dylan Connelly
Mechanical EngineerIntegral Group
LEEDuser Expert
472 thumbs up
July 27, 2012 - 7:59 pm
I don't see anywhere in IEQp2 or IEQc3.1 where it mentions smoking during construction. It doesn't look like LEED will punish you (there aren't LEED police anyway).
It sounds like you are trying to do the right thing. Hopefully the building flush out will help take care of any smoke residue. Refer to IEQp2 for more information.