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NC-2009 SSc4.2:Alternative Transportation—Bicycle Storage and Changing Rooms

Design Bike Racks- CS FFM, Germany

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Tobias Silies
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In the forum discussion I found the note the number of required bycicle parking spaces depends on the no. of employers and visitors/transients. Do external visistors also apply to a 100% office usage? According to App 1 i would assume not?

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Samantha Harrell
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Wed, 03/28/2012 - 15:03

Tobias, The peak building user occupancy (sum of FTE occupants and transients during the regularly occurring moment with the highest volume of total users) will be used in the calculation to determine the required number of bicycle storage spaces. I hope this answers your question?
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David Posada
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Wed, 04/18/2012 - 22:08

It does seem odd that according to CS Appendix 1 in the BD&C Reference guide a core and shell building that is 100% office that does not have final occupant counts is calculated with 0 transients. If you have an NC project where you know what kind of offices will be using the building, you can provide a reasonable estimate of visitors/ transients that are likely to come. For a Core and Shell office building where you have no idea what kind of office will be there it looks like we are allowed to assume 0 visitors, but that seems unlikely. To be safe, you could assume some transients and include them in the peak occupancy number for calculating bike racks.

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