Our project is part of a university campus, serving an actual programmed occupancy of 500 students, 100 faculty members and approximately 50 retail clients and employees. We assume five percent, or 33, of the occupants to be bicyclists. The project has an interview area on the third floor in which we are planning to provide 2 unisex showers available for all bicyclists. We could also provide showers in a building basement across a (wide) street, with exterior walls 100 feet apart, and with the closest building entrances 124 feet apart. Please advise how many showers total we need and how many of them, if any, could be in the building across the street.
The number of showers required is calculated by dividing the number of bicyclists by 8. For your project that equates to 33/8 or 4 showers. All showers used to capture this credit must be located within a 100 foot boundary of the building being certified. The LEED Steering Committee has ruled: "Although, transients are required to calculate the bike storage capacity, they shall not be required to be included in the occupant count for calculating the number of showers/changing areas. Transients are defined as visitors to the building for less than 7 hours." This credit ruling will be reformatted to reflect the Steering Committee direction. Applicable Internationally.