This may have an obvious answer, but I confused on the task lighting for private offices. The form on LEED Online states for individual controls, "simple on/off switches may only count towards credit compliance for private offices." In which case, do we also need to have a task light in the office?
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Kathryn West
LEED AP BD+C, O+M, Green Globes ProfessionalJLL
154 thumbs up
October 24, 2013 - 3:42 pm
if you have an on/off switch for a true private office (walls on 4 sides and a door that closes) it complies. No task lighting is needed. Task lighting is important to incorporate into any large open office space with individual work stations. Lots of people make a mistake with open offices and classify it as a multi-occupant space. An open office with 15 people isn't one multi-occupant space; it's 15 individual occupant spaces. You can't get compliance with a wall mounted on/off switch in an open office area where people are doing individual tasks. You need task lighting. That's what the note is about.
Lauren Sparandara
Sustainability ManagerGoogle
LEEDuser Expert
997 thumbs up
October 24, 2013 - 4:00 pm
Kathryn is spot on. Thanks. I was going to say the same thing.
Lyle Axelarris
Building Enclosure ConsultantBPL Enclosure
64 thumbs up
December 17, 2013 - 3:06 pm
But can task lighting be provided by wall switches? In other words, in a double-occupancy "office room", if both workstations have a light switch near the desk that controls the ceiling light fixture over that workstation, will the credit requirements be met? thank you.
Julia Weatherby
PresidentWeatherby Design & Co. Engineers
94 thumbs up
March 5, 2014 - 9:28 am
Lyle-
It seems to me that individual control of the fixture over your own desk would qualify. After all, what's required is "individual control" for individual work stations, and that's exactly what you are providing.