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We are working on a healthcare out patient clinic. The credit says that we will take the net usable area excluding the building equipement, vertical circulation and...

For this credit, do the interior spaces have to be located with in the LEED project boundary?

Can existing places of respite be used for multiple LEED projects?

In our healtchare project, we have many areas that are designated as places of respite for visitors and staff that vary in size based on square footage. Is the requirement for shaded seating...

What verbiage should be used on signs directing building occupants to areas of respite? Do the signs literally need to read "Area of Respite"?

If you use a universal access nature trail as part of your Places of Respite, does the trail have to provide shaded seating? Is shading seating supposed to be included in the "places to pause...

The reference guide calls out that ‘examples of qualifying shade structures include trellises and tree-shaded…’ Can the seating areas be shaded by a building adjacent to the outdoor garden other...

It is not clear to me if the...

The FGI Guideline Section 1.2-6.3c recommends to install signage at sixth grade level. Does anyone know what it means?

If the outdoor area is made up of artificial turf, would that be a problem?

We recently received comments back on this credit, stating that although we had provided the area required, "it does not appear that the areas indicated to be places of respite meet the...