Hi All - We are working on a major renovation of 1 floor that have patient rooms within a hospital. Although this project is BD+C, I am interested on how to calculate the occupancy as if it were a healthcare project.Are there occupancy defaults for Healthcare just like there are for Core & Shell? Thank you!
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Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
1296 thumbs up
September 21, 2015 - 9:53 am
Is this an inpatient facility? How much of the total building does this floor occupy? I ask because you state this is BD+C and yet is a hospital. Hospital projects go into HC with some exceptions which are usually ID or CS.
But to your actual question, no there aren't defaults. The occupancy varies between the types of services provided, whether this is inpatient, outpatient, support, admin or other types of space. You can drive occupancy numbers off the programming numbers to get you started. The medical programmer may be able to help.
Sara Zoumbaris
Sustainable Design Consulting30 thumbs up
September 22, 2015 - 1:45 pm
I'm sorry, I did make a mistake when posting this question. The project is actually an ID project - Not BD+C. This is a mother and child unit for women giving birth and while we do know the number of patients and the fact that they will each have one guest with them at all times, I am unsure if they should be categorized as FTE, visitors or something else like residents. Perhaps this questions is more about WEp1 calculations the more I think about it but I'll see what kind of feedback I get there. Thanks!
Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
1296 thumbs up
September 22, 2015 - 2:37 pm
What I do is to keep them out of the FTE calculations because it mucks up other credits to mix staff and visitor/residents. I would count Mom and Baby as Residents if they will be there more than 24 hours. Dad/Partner is a 24 hour Visitor who is functionally a resident for your water calculations. Regular visitors to the LDR unit are typically longer term than other hospital visitors. Ask your client about additional birthing partners which seems to be commonplace.
I always do healthcare occupancy in a spreadsheet that lets me see how the care units function shift to shift. It lets me do things like counting infants and toddlers for some items but then removing them for credits like water use. Then I can total everything up in a way LEED Online can handle. The spreadsheet is then PDFd and uploaded as back up. I may be overly anal about healthcare occupancy or have a strange desire to crunch a lot of numbers.
Sara Zoumbaris
Sustainable Design Consulting30 thumbs up
September 24, 2015 - 8:27 am
Susan, I really appreciate you laying your healthcare occupancy routine on the table for me. I understand completely and will certainly take it all into consideration. Thank You!