Under LEED-NC2.2 SS-C2.0 the square footage definition stated
"The square footage of a building is the total area in square feet of all rooms including corridors, elevators, stairwells and shaft spaces. Only 2 stories of a parking structure may be counted as part of building square footage. Surface parking (only 1 story of parking) cannot count as part of the building square footage; this is to ensure efficient use of land adjacent to the total building footprint. Both structured and stacked parking are allowable in square footage calculations".
Now under LEED v2009 the same definition does not mention nothing about parking structures. The question is do we still consider for LEED v 2009 the same square foot definition as LEED v2.2
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Victoria Lockhart
Arup Associates125 thumbs up
May 14, 2010 - 10:04 am
Look at the BD+C CS Appendix 1:
"Gross square footage is defined as the sum of all areas on all floors of a building included within the outside faces of the exterior wall including all floor penetrations that connect one floor to another. This can be determined by taking the building foot print and multiplying it by the number of floors in the building. Projects which contain underground and/or structured parking, may exclude that area from the gross square footage used for the calculation. Other spaces such as common areas, mechanical spaces, and circulation should be included in the gross square footage of the building."