The building in question will be a 200,000 square feet warehouse with a 300 square feet office space. The warehouse space will be used for storage of goods and materials that will be transported to an adjacent facility (within 1/8 of a mile) for use in product manufacturing. The employees of the warehouse facility will spend a majority of their day within the office space except for the occasional need to go out into the warehouse space to receive and stock incoming shipments, or transition of these goods and materials to the adjacent facility. The layout of the warehouse space will consist of long rows of aligned storage racks and shelving - with intermediate aisles and end aisles that would be parallel with the exterior walls of the building. As such, is the entire warehouse space considered "regularly occupied" space? If not, would the aisle ways be considered as "regularly occupied" space? In either case what would the window size, location, and spacing requirements be for these windows? Would windows be required around 90% of the building? Please provide some guidance on a strategy that would be consistent with the intent of this credit.
The CIR inquiry is asking if a warehouse space that is largely unoccupied, with the exception of short term efforts to transfer stored materials, can be excluded from the requirements of this credit. Per the submitted narrative, the workers that handle the warehouse materials are regularly assigned to office space elsewhere in the building and only occasionally enter the warehouse for the purpose of handling shipments. Under this specific case, the warehouse can be reasonably excluded from the requirements of access to views for the purposes of this credit. Note: The office space must meet the requirement to obtain the credit.