Our project is pursuing LEED v4 BD+C certification and is a University building. The primary function of this facility will be to train nursing students via practice/simulation rooms. Some of the regularly occupied area consists of training space, which, in order to ensure a neutral simulation experience, the design team can not incorporate views to the outdoors. If the design team made the necessary changes to fulfill the credit requirements, by granting access to views within these spaces, the various rooms would fail to meet the required space program requirements.

Our question is: Can we exclude these spaces from the total "Regularly Occupied Space" area count, or do these spaces need to be included, regardless of their program limitations?