Greetings! We area working on a NC School certification in Buenos Aires, Argentina. It is anticipated the school occupancy will be 250 students per 4 hour shift. So 500 total, but only 250 Full time occupants.
I was wondering if within the tab of occupancy calculations it is listed Students (K-12). Should I input full time occupants here (250)?
I am unsure of what K-12 stands for.
Many thanks!
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emily reese moody
Sustainability Director, Certifications & ComplianceJacobs
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December 12, 2019 - 1:33 pm
K-12 is how US schools are labeled; it stands for kindergarten through 12th grade, and is all the schooling prior to potentially entering college. In most places, elementary school is K-5, middle school is 6-8, and high school is 9-12.
For your water calcs, is there a break between the 4-hour shifts? What the reviewers will want to know, and how the project should anticipate peak usage, is if those two shifts overlap where there would be a total of 500 students using the facilities all at once. I would think the staff would want to be its own usage group, since it's likely their hours are different, so their usage pattern would be different.
Micaela Smulevich
Green Group1 thumbs up
December 12, 2019 - 1:45 pm
Emily, thank you for your prompt response. I will separate staff from students use, and specify that both students groups are not expected to overlap. Since this is not a K-12 school, it is for industrial workers to study new and sustainable technologies, I will probably present students as FTE.