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Healthcare-v4 WEp2: Indoor water use reduction
Does it make sense to break out into two groups? one for public toilets/ lavatories and second group for private toilets and lavatories?
or would it work fine to be just one group to calculate reduction of water usage with the total number of FTE's and visitors?
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Paula Melton
Editorial DirectorBuildingGreen, Inc.
LEEDuser Moderator
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March 22, 2018 - 3:02 pm
It looks like the credit language only breaks the faucets into public and private. I would assume this means you should not do so for toilets?
Susan Walter
HDRLEEDuser Expert
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March 22, 2018 - 3:38 pm
It depends on how you are defining occupancy and if you can keep things consistent between the different forms. Specific to private versus public toilets in hospitals, I usually have broken them out into separate groups. Inpatient rooms are 'private' and their use rates vary from an outpatient or staff use. For example, you can tweak the number of showers per day based on the care level and zero out the kitchen sink use. Typically I use the 'resident' tag for inpatients. It is easy to keep inpatient separate in your occupancy calculations and those PI forms.
Just be clear and consistent.