Hello everyone, One question regarding the Group certification. It is mentioned that the bicycle parking should be 200 y from each building entrances to comply. Our project is a pharmaceutical drug production facility. We have basically 3 units (admin/lab, production, warehouse...) that are connected together through a spine. Those 3 units constitute our group. The spine is not enclosed and not simply a corridor but used in the process for material flow... We have several restricted and controlled areas for the purpose of the activity. Therefore staff will only enter through a single entrance at the production before to enter the complex. Do we agree that despite the group guidance this only entrance should be used for calculation? That seems logical... Many thanks. Renaud

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David Posada

Integrated Design & LEED Specialist

SERA Architects

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Thu, 05/29/2014 - 22:08

It's not totally clear from your description, but it sounds like occupants for all three buildings have to use one pedestrian entrance at the production building. Is that true? If we assume people can't ride their bikes past this entry, it would make sense to have one shared bike rack that's big enough for all three buildings within 200 yards of this one entry. If people can ride their bikes past this entrance, it would make more sense to have a bike rack within 200 yards of each building where people have to stop riding and enter.

Renaud Gay

Shanghai Pacific Energy Center

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Wed, 06/04/2014 - 06:38

Hi David, Thanks for your reply. I made a small mistake on the description. Maybe that made it unclear. The spine IS enclosed. Staff do need to enter the building through an unique entrance because of the pharmaceutical control requirement for indoor pollutants (there are several air locks on the way). Therefore it is not really possible to access the complex from an other entrance. In fact the preliminary discussion was to define whether or not this complex should be defined as a multiple buildings and USGBC experts believed so, whereas everything is enclosed...

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