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Healthcare-v2009 WEp1:Water use reduction

Labor and Delivery Rooms

Our hospital project has labor and delivery rooms with massage-style shower heads. The flow rate is 2.5 gpm. Does anyone know what shower type it would fall under in the LEED form? I'd like to put it under "Residential" which has a baseline of 2.5 gpm. My other option is to put it under just "Shower," which doesn't seem appropriate since it is a specialty product not a generic shower you would find in a locker room. Thank you!

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Thu, 01/28/2016 - 17:27

If the room is only for labor and delivery and not for overnight stay of patients (after labor and delivery), then I would personally say this would be clinical use and therefore exempt. I know there was Addenda ID#100001966 back in 2014, but I haven't looked recently to see if anything new might have come out to change this... http://www.usgbc.org/leed-interpretations?keys=ID%23100001966 "For healthcare projects, ... Lavatories in hospital inpatient bathrooms and inpatient rooms are considered private. The inpatient lavatory and water closet should use the default residential usage assumptions (of five times per day per residential occupant), unless specific project conditions warrant an alternative. Lavatories in hospital inpatient rooms (outside the bathrooms) are considered private if used by patients and/or staff similarly to a residential lavatory, or can be exempt if they are used by staff primarily for medical or clinical use..."

Tue, 09/12/2017 - 18:33

I agree. LDR beds aren't licensed beds either. But you need to make sure that the room doesn't swing from LDR to family centered care rooms where Mom is recovering as an inpatient.

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