My project is a nursing home with some workstations for staff. In the form (v 4.0) on LEED Online there is nowhere to fill out what lighting controls the residents have. There is only "individual workspaces" and "multi-occupant spaces". Do I enter residential units in the “individual workspaces”? Thanks!
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Kristina Bach
VP of InnovationSustainable Investment Group
151 thumbs up
December 8, 2014 - 10:16 am
We just had this come up on our residential project. It's actually even more complicated due to the fact that IEQc6.1 and IEQc6.2 look at residential units differently but the forms ask you to be consistent between the two.
You'll want to review USGBC's IEQ Space Type Matrix to make sure you understand the requirements for your project. For IEQc6.1, residential units actually have to be broken down into individual vs. multi-occupant spaces based room (i.e. bedrooms = individual, living rooms = multi-occupant, etc.). This may/may not be appropriate for your facility depending on how the units are laid out. For IEQc6.2, you check compliance just at the overall unit level (i.e. one thermal control would count for an entire residential unit rather than separate controls for the living vs. bedroom).
Here's what we ended up doing for filling out the form:
- We listed only the non-residential spaces in the actual Credit Forms. This allowed for the spaces to still be consistent between the two credits (staff workstations, offices, conference rooms, etc.).
- We then marked the Special Circumstances box and uploaded a separate excel file that included the breakdown of each of the different residential spaces between whether they are Individual Spaces or Multi-Occupant Spaces along with their own calculation of whether they had compliant controls.
- We used the same calculator for both credits. This allowed us to show compliance for IEQc6.2 at a unit level and then break each unit down as necessary for IEQc6.1 to also show compliance there.
- To confirm compliance, we made sure that we met the requirements of each credit both at an individual usage-type level (i.e. for IEQc6.1: 90% of the residential individual spaces had controls, 90% of non-residential individual spaces had controls; 100% of residential multi-occupant spaces had controls; 100% of non-residential multi-occupant spaces had controls) AND that the requirements of each credit was also met based on the overall spaces (i.e. for IEQc6.1: 90% of all individual spaces had controls - both residential + non-residential; etc.).
Hope that helps!
Maria Porter
Sustainability specialistSkanska Sweden
271 thumbs up
December 9, 2014 - 4:59 am
Thank you!
The residential units are just one room, since living rooms and dining areas are common spaces. I think I will enter the rooms under the individual workspaces, and the living areas under the multi-occupant spaces. But this form is really not made for mixed residential and staff areas, like my project.