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NC-2009 IEQp2:Environmental Tobacco Smoke (ETS) Control

Smoking zone area limit

I have an office building of six floors, I need to know If there's a limitation to the percent of smoking zones, in other words, can I make two floors out of the six floors as smoking zones? in that case, can I recirculate return air of each of these two floors? knowing that LEED recommendations states that: "At a minimum, the smoking room must be directly exhausted to the outdoors, away from air intakes and building entry paths, with no recirculation of ETS-containing air to nonsmoking areas.." so I might be able to recirculate ETS-containing air to smoking areas normally.

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Wed, 03/20/2013 - 23:08

Omar, I don't see why you couldn't take this approach, if you meet the credit requirements that are given.

Mon, 03/25/2013 - 09:02

Thanks Tristan, I just think that it doesn't make sense to have no limitations on the smoking zones' percentage out of the whole building. In other words, why not permit smoking inside the whole building, and design a non-smoking zone on each floor for example?

Mon, 03/25/2013 - 11:50

On the principle that non-smokers shouldn't be subject to smoking. Nonsmokers shouldn't have to navigate lobbies, corridors, elevators, stairs, bathrooms, etc, with smoke, in order to reach a nonsmoking refuge. Also, I would say that operations and maintenance staff shouldn't be exposed to ETS any more than necessary, so keeping smoking to a designated area helps with that.

Mon, 03/25/2013 - 14:12

That explains it perfectly, thanks

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