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Tristan Roberts
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Mon, 06/14/2010 - 16:46

Just thinking out loud here, but I think it really matters which rating system you're in. For a design/construction rating system, I think definitely 1,000 FTE, because that's what the building is designed for, and that's what another tenant might end up having.If this is in LEED-EBOM, then I could see justifying less than 1,000, but I'm not sure. I don't think there are any hard-and-fast rules about this.

Mon, 06/14/2010 - 17:07

It is LEED C/S and we are in late design, construction has started and we now know the tenant. The tenant is a multinational company with many offices around the world, so they know that their office-spaces are not used 100%. The office is designed to be very flexible so it can easily be reorganised. There can be fewer office-places, but not so many more than 1000.
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Tristan Roberts
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Mon, 06/14/2010 - 17:34

Since it's LEED-CS, have you looked at using the default occupancy numbers from CS Appendix 1 in the LEED BD&C Reference Guide? It's possible that those numbers will be favorable to your situation, and easily defensible with your LEED review.

Mon, 06/14/2010 - 18:05

But can we use them when we know the actual FTE, which we do since the tenant is known and the tenant fit-out is is included in the project through diffrent owner/tenant or tenant/contractor agreements? It says in CS appendix 1 that projects that know the tenant occupancy must use actual numbers as long as they not are greater (sqft/employee) than in table 1.
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Shannon Gray
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Wed, 06/23/2010 - 19:36

If you know the project FTE you should use that and not the default. In regards to the 667 vs 1000 FTE, I would play it safe and go with the 1000 FTE.

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