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CI-2009 WEp1:Water Use Reduction—20% Reduction

Private lavatory faucet

Hi, We have a project that consists of an office space, a laboratory, and a salon area for testing health care products. Kindly advice if the water fixtures in the salon area has to be considered as private lavatory faucet or public lavatory faucet.

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David Posada
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Tue, 06/21/2011 - 16:39

These would be considered public if there are multiple people using the fixtures. Even if the ownership of the space is private, an office is considered a public use, as would a lab or product testing area. In the reference guide on page 99 and the credit language included page above, "private" is limited to hotel guest rooms, hospital patient rooms, and residential bathrooms. In an office building, you could possibly classify a lavatory as private if it is accessible only to a private office such as an executive, where no other building users would typically have access.

Fri, 09/23/2011 - 05:05

Thank you for the reply David. Just for more clarity, do we have to consider process use in all commercial interior project? Since this project mainly consists of volunteers coming and testing the shampoo and other products manufactured by the company. Does this mean the salon area is part of the process use and can this water usage be excluded from water calculations? kindly request for clarification..

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