Accounting for Shower Use by non-building occupants

Deborah Lucking

Director of Sustainability

Fentress Architects

LEEDuser Expert

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United States

September 30, 2015

We have a campus project where FTEs from a number of buildings have access to showers and lockers in a separate "clubhouse" building. The clubhouse has a much lower staff number than the other buildings. How do we account for the shower usage, because in this case the "visitors" use the showers.

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Ben Stanley

Senior Sustainability Manager

WSP - Built Ecology

LEEDuser Expert

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Tue, 12/01/2015 - 16:18

Hi Deborah, Will the clubhouse itself be pursuing certification? If that were the case, I would create a separate fixture usage group within the calculations to address visitor shower use and only include shower fixture use within that group. For the purposes of the calculations, I would classify those visitors as FTE occupants within that fixture usage group as well to best account for the anticipated usage pattern.