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CI-2009 SSc3.2: Alternative Transportation—Bicycle Storage and Changing Rooms
The shower and changing rooms for our project will be outside the project boundary in a neighboring building. Is the 200 yard distance measured from entrance door to entrance door of each building? Or from the project's entrance door to the remote shower/changing room itself?
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Does LEED have any requirements on spacing or the type of bike racks used? What about security?
Are there specific requirements for the changing rooms, such as size?
Do bike racks have to be within the LEED project boundary?
Is a general storage room that is accessible to residents acceptable for covered bike storage?
Do I round up or down? What if the calculations show that I need 0.5 showers?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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January 20, 2011 - 10:20 pm
I think the credit language is clear that the 200 yard distance is to the facilities themselves. You'd have to kind of blur your eyes to read it as entrance to entrance.
Alejandra Feliciano
LEED AP BD+CArchitects Smith Metzger
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January 27, 2011 - 12:41 pm
Let me clarify my question, our situation is the following: our FTE requires only one shower. There is a shower accessible to our occupants in a nearby building, but the actual showers are on an upper level. The form requires a site plan to show the distance from our building entrance to the 'shower facility' so would we have to count the walking distance (including stairs) from our building entrance to the shower room?
David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
LEEDuser Expert
1980 thumbs up
February 1, 2011 - 1:29 pm
Since your situation is not explicitly addressed in the credit it's hard to anticipate if a particular reviewer will interpret the wording any differently than Tristan did above. The design phase preliminary review will give you a chance to see how the existing shower is viewed in your case, and thus gives you time to see if you need to pursue any other credits.