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Our building is mostly residential. Must we provide showers and changing rooms for the nonresidential portion?

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?

Based on my FTE calculations, I am only required to provide 1 shower to meet this requirement. Since both males and females will have access to this one shower, and it will be in a single room, does this satisfy the credit requirements? Can I use an exist

Do bike racks have to be within the LEED project boundary?

My project type serves visitors who can reasonably be expected to not be using bikes, e.g. hotel, airport, assisted living facility. Can I exclude them from bike rack requirements?

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?

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

Adaptive Reuse/Urban Church

Keelan Kaiser

Architect and Educator

Serena Sturm Architects and Judson University

LEEDuser Basic Member

93 thumbs up

August 13, 2012

In the case of a building that is nearly built to lot lines in all directions except the alley, can the secure bike racks be located on the alley side of the building and meet this credit requirement. And when the requirement is

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David Posada

Integrated Design & LEED Specialist

SERA Architects

LEEDuser Expert

1361 thumbs up

Wed, 08/22/2012 - 19:07

The alley side would meet the requirements if it's accessible and provides real security for the bikes. If it's so dark and scary that no biker would leave their bike locked there, it might meet the "letter of the law" but miss the intent. Yes, a single unisex shower room is fine.

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