I am working on LEED Submittals for 6 Fire Stations that are under construction at the same time. We submitted 2 Stations and have obtained our Design Review Approval with an occupancy based on the number of bunk rooms and a shift overlap and a couple of transients. (14 Bunk Rooms so total 28+transients). The Reviewer for the WE credits advised us to change the FTE to Residents so now we have 0 FTE and 14 Residents JUST for the WE Credits and the EA credits are modeled after the Occupancy Form calculating for Shift Overlap etc.
1. Is there a place that advises the facilitator on how to calculate the occupancty? If so, where?
2. Would you consider these occupants residents? Should I submit a CIR or has someone had a similar experience?
My Owner is questioning how we calculated all of this - since they only have 5 Firefighters at a time (with 14 Bunk Rooms).
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David Posada
Integrated Design & LEED SpecialistSERA Architects
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March 28, 2013 - 4:50 pm
Dominique,
I'm assuming the reviewer advised you to change the firefighters to "residents" so that the water use calculations would be more accurate. Using "residents" instead of FTE assumes those people are taking showers and using water as an apartment resident would do, rather than how an office worker would do.
It also sounds like you have 3 shifts with 5 firefighters on each shift. Is that correct? If so, I think the reviewer would want you to list 15 residents (three shifts of five people) since the water use per day would be most like an apartment with 15 people. In your situation, it's probably more important to count the number of people using the building than the number of beds.
If there are people who use the building more like an office worker, where they are working a regular schedule but not bathing or cooking, than those people should be counted as an FTE.
If you have short term visitors to the building, those would be considered transients.
You might want to check “Additional Details” at the bottom of the form and use the narrative box to explain your response to the reviewer’s comments. You can describe your number of firefighters per shift, number of shifts, and any other workers or transient visitors to the building.
Hope that helps!