Reading the guidance and from past projects its always been pretty straightforward for showing compliance with an apartment or dorm when every room has an on/off switch. However, in the latest version of the template, on/off only applies to private offices. Would a dorm room or apartment be classified as private office or something else? If it has a living room, is that shared multi-occupant, or still under individual workspace? They are all 3-4 bedroom units.
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Lauren Sparandara
Sustainability ManagerGoogle
LEEDuser Expert
997 thumbs up
December 16, 2011 - 2:25 pm
Hi Tommy,
I would assume that the Template is just limited in its functionality and that "individual workstations" are not now just limited to private offices. As is the case with many LEED Template issues, I would just explain your case very clearly in a narrative and include bedrooms under "individual workstations" or under the “on/off” area of the Template. I usually have the following designations for dorms or housing units. Do these align with what you’re thinking too?
The following are “individual workstations”:
Bedrooms
Home Offices
Multi-Occupant:
Living Room
Dining Room
Kitchen
Excluded:
Bathrooms
Closets
Crissy Tsai
Sustainability CoordinatorWebcor Builders
58 thumbs up
March 5, 2013 - 6:14 pm
Tommy,
Did you have any issue with documenting the apartment or dorm rooms as private offices? I am running into the same issue with my residential tower project, and want to verify we don't need to add lighting controls in the bedrooms.
Regards,
Crissy