CS shopping mall - FTE

Adam Targowski

Owner

ATsec

LEEDuser Basic Member

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December 6, 2012

I'm working on a core and shell shopping mall project and tenants will be responsable for HVAC equipment and thermostates installation in their spaces. First of all I would like to ask how do we define "occupants" for controllability of systems calculations. Is it only the number of shopping mall employees or does it include both employees and transients? Second, since we don't know future layout of tenant spaces should we creat a potential layout, is that enough? Should we require future tenants to install specific number of controls (as specified by our calculations)?

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Adam Targowski

Owner

ATsec

LEEDuser Basic Member

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Mon, 01/07/2013 - 16:01

In the calculations I'll be including only building employees. But could somebody confirm that stores and supermarkets in a shopping mall are considered shared multioccupant spaces for which at lest one means of control is required and people working at the cash desks (50%) don't need individual thermal comfort controls?

Tristan Roberts

Representative

Vermont House of Representatives

LEEDuser Expert

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Fri, 01/18/2013 - 21:23

Adam, unfortunately this is an area with unclear requirements. See this excellent discussion thread for some background on similar issues, but no clear resolution.