I am beginning work on a fairly complex project. The portion of the project seeking LEED certification is an office building attached to an existing building. The LEED building is 2 stories - one of which is mostly below grade parking - which gets excluded from the GSF of the LEED building. However, the site and LEED project boundary includes the following: Light rail transit bridge and station, bus transit stop, outdoor plaza serving adjacent baseball stadium, ticket booths, restrooms and storage areas at grade, 2 level parking structure below grade (public parking serving stadium and transit components) and associated elevators and vertical circulation and a smattering of some surface parking supporting the LEED building. The project meets all the MPR's. Only the LEED (office) building is pursuing LEED - all other ancillary structures are excluded from certification but are included within the LPB.
My question is for filling out PIF2 - in the field that asks for square footage of all parking areas, do I include only the small surface parking area and the below grade parking directly serving and contained within the footprint of the LEED building, or must it also include the adjacent parking ramp. The parking ramp abuts and physically touches the LEED building but does not serve the LEED building
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Kimberly Frith
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March 12, 2013 - 8:38 pm
Kevin, I think the area of the parking ramp would be inconsequential in your documentation for PIf2 - the reason the form asks for the total square footage of parking areas is to distinguish between the building area and parking garage areas.
Kevin Flynn
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March 12, 2013 - 9:39 pm
Kimberly, Thank you.
Part of the reason I ask is because the documentation requirements for SSc4.4 and SSc7.1 both ask for the amount of parking supporting the building that is covered by roof/surfaces meeting the SRI value of .29 or greater and so want to be consistent - because technically, the parking ramp does not support the building but it is parking provided on site and does meet the requirements of the credits and we wish to be consistent in our reporting of areas.