Question: I am tasked with determining the view calculations for a 2-story office and retail building. The building is currently under construction and it includes future tenant spaces that have not been designed with interior space plans. How is it possible to determine the amount of regularly occupied areas within future tenant spaces for compliance with the view credit?
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Allison Beer McKenzie
Architect, Director of SustainabilitySHP Leading Design
LEEDuser Expert
646 thumbs up
August 30, 2010 - 2:53 pm
LEED for Core and Shell asks that you provide a hypothetical tenant space layout for any unoccupied spaces for this credit. I think that would be a good place to start.
Peter Silva
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August 30, 2010 - 2:56 pm
The project's compliance path is NC...would a hypothetical tenant space also be asked for in NC as well as Core and Shell?
Allison Beer McKenzie
Architect, Director of SustainabilitySHP Leading Design
LEEDuser Expert
646 thumbs up
August 30, 2010 - 2:59 pm
There is no clear guidance in the Reference Guide, so I am making an assumption that seems rational to me. Your unoccupied tenant spaces are more consistent with the type of spaces you would typically find in CS than the type of spaces you would find in NC, so it makes sense to me to use the CS guidance in this one specific case.
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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August 30, 2010 - 3:00 pm
I would agree. It's not uncommon to have some CS-type space in an NC building. It works to follow CS guidance for this kind of space.
Peter Silva
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August 30, 2010 - 3:06 pm
thanks for the input :)