Dear all,
at the moment we are working on an office building. In the building there are between 100 and 200 parking spaces. For the client we are analyzing the possibility to provide the building with alternative fueling stations for each parking space.
In the LEED credit requirements for SSc 4.3 is written unter option 2: "Install alternative-fuel fueling stations for 3% of the total vehicle parking capacity of the site..."
We are wondering if the installation of alterantive fuel-filling stations for 100% of the vehicles is in compliance with that wording. The requirements do not say anything "... fueling stations for (at least) 3% of the total ..."
Did anybody of you have experience with a case like this?
Thanks and best reagrds.
Christoph
Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
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May 27, 2011 - 2:12 pm
I don't believe there is any problem with exceeding the 3% but you won't earn the Exemplary Performance credit for the effort. That is a lot of fuel-filling stations and they are expensive here. Do you have a lot of alternative fuel vehicles coming to the building? Does your owner make these stations? What other green building features could you fund if you provided fewer stations? It would raise a flag with a reviewer because it seems excessive and you may need to explain the overabundance.
Christoph Dewald
Dipl.-Ing. Architekt, LEED-APCSD Ingengieure AG
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June 3, 2011 - 6:32 am
Thanks Susan,
the client is very ambitious and interested to invest in future concepts in a general way ... At the moment we are just checking the options in each direction. The alternative fuelling stations are just one aspect whole traffic concept.