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EBOM-2009 SSc4:Alternative Commuting Transportation

SSc4 Surveying Staff Throughout Building

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Alexis Doyle
Sustainability Engagement Specialist
Prism Engineering
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Hello,

We are looking to complete an alternative commuting survey at a building owner and the property owner has suggested that we tour the building, visiting each office and survey people in their workplace to increase the response rate. This seems rather unconventional and I'm wondering if this would be accepted by LEED. I assume we could still apply Approach 2, asking every other individual to reach our sample size.

Have others applied this approach? Would it be acceptable?

Many thanks in advance! 

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Trista Brown
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WSP USA
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Tue, 05/26/2020 - 22:35

Hi Alexis - sorry for the delay. You may have already picked a path forward, but I think what you describe would work if you can demonstrate that you're selecting a random sample of people and tenant organizations (assuming you're working with a multi-tenant situation).

Tue, 06/16/2020 - 18:40

Alexis It`s possible to do the way you described. For a project, I entered several tennants` private spaces to quickly interview the occupants, in order to obtain as many answers as I could. Regards.

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