Hello everyone.
I'm working in a project in which there are few occupants and a high rate of staff changes, so they leave the business or move from this building into other of the client. So I found many answers that says that for some season they can not answer because they have not been in the building for that particular season. Other challenge that I've experienced is that some users are in areas where natural light and views are not desired for security, for example bank cashiers (The design standard don't authorize any exterior window in the safe area).
My view is that for the first point, I should take this answers as N/A and reduce the number of total respondents to this particular cuestions to the ones that have an answer.
And on the second, if the occupant is in an area where natural light is not allowed for security, or hinders tha activities that need to be done there, I take this answers (even if they had been replied by the user) as N/A and reduce the number of respondents for this question.
Do you think I'm ok clarifying this in a Narrative and proceding as I described? or can you suggest a better strategy to manage this two aspects?
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
11477 thumbs up
November 4, 2013 - 10:09 pm
Sounds reasonable to me, Mauricio.
Allison Beer McKenzie
Architect, Director of SustainabilitySHP Leading Design
LEEDuser Expert
646 thumbs up
November 5, 2013 - 8:37 am
Mauricio- excluding the incomplete surveys from the 30% you are required to gather should definitely be safe.
This credit doesn't require you to provide natural light through all spaces, it just requires that you address any significant problems you identify. With that in mind, if one of your survey results is lack of natural light I think you'll b e fine responding that natural light is not allowable in certain areas if you can indicate that it has been provided wherever possible elsewhere in the building.