Cleaning for Restaurant Kitchens

If you are including those tenant spaces in your overall gross floor area addressed by your LEED application, then those spaces must comply with any relevant credit requirements. Now, there are some caveats to that statement: 1) for IEQc3.3 - if you can reach the compliance threshold despite the fact that some of the cleaning products used in those areas do not currently comply, that is acceptable. 2) for IEQp3 and IEQc3.1 - if those restaurant tenants are unwilling to participate in the LEED process, and make up less than 10% of the gross floor area of the project building, you are allowed to exclude them from your LEED application. You'll need to provide documentation upon request to describe the size and nature of excluded spaces, and you must be consistent (meaning you can't exclude them only for certain credits where they'll hurt the overall effort). That being said, the majority of conventional cleaners that customers are used to using now have green counterparts on the market that perform just as well. It may be worthwhile for your restaurant tenants to make a call to the Green Seal headquarters or their custodial vendor to see if they can suggest sustainable alternatives.