the LEED NC reference manual doesnt actually seem to have directions anywhere on how to arrive at FTE. It makes reference to it as if its just innate human knowledge we are born with. The appendix has some info for core and shell, but its insufficient and also im left uncertain if it also applies to everything other than core and shell. the conversations below seem to be focused on specific cases.
How do we begin to go about this? does the owner/design team have to give us the number of employees that work at any given shift? or is it done by sq ft/occupant load? ad what about visitors ("transients")? im really need to start from the very beginning and do not see any fundamental info anywhere on this.
im clearly not aware of some critical document (?).
Tristan Roberts
RepresentativeVermont House of Representatives
LEEDuser Expert
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November 25, 2013 - 6:32 pm
Michael, what specific questions do you have? FTE is basically a measure of occupancy and a project team should have some idea of occupancy (if they don't, they need to make an edcuated guess). So you are translating your idea of occupancy into terms of FTE. The definition of FTE (scroll over the text above) gives you some information on visitors, for example.
Carrie Laurendine
ArchitectChenevert Architects
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January 29, 2014 - 2:33 pm
thanks Tristan. I guess the occpancy part isn't so bad. It's an office building open 9-5 with 35 employees.
the part im not as sure about (in this particular case) is that there is a training room. the training room might be used for visitors, and it might be used during 9-5, but also might be used in the evenings. a rough layout of desks in the training room suggest about 15 people could be trained in there. also, its uncertain how often the room will be used (once a week? three times a week? etc).im not sure how to incorporate this into the FTE